ICM 148 Scale World War II Soviet Fighter Plane I-16 Type 24 - Plastic Aircraft Model Building Kit 48097

ICM 1/48 Scale World War II Soviet Fighter Plane I-16 Type 24 - Plastic Aircraft Model Building Kit # 48097 The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design, it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such introduced a new vogue in fighter design. This kit features engraved panel lines, detailed cockpit and fuselage, raised relief radial engine, detailed face plate, forward-firing ShKAS machine guns and wing ShVAK cannons, transparent (single piece windscreen and instrument panel), single piece 2-blade propeller with separate spinner, separately molded control surfaces, boxed-in wheel wells with optional undercarriage. Decals and color markings for 4 aircraft: 13th Squadron, Baltic Fleet Aviation, Summer 1940 67th Fighter Regiment, South Front, Summer 1941 72nd Mixed Regiment, Northern Fleet Aviation, Summer 1941 4th Guard Fighter Regiment, Baltic Fleet Aviation, Winter - Spring 1943 - includes stencil data.