SPH72162 1:72 Special Hobby Short Sunderland Mk.V 'Fighting Commies in Europe and the Far East'

Model of the iconic British flying boat.

The kit consists of as many as eleven styrene sprues, one clear, one small resin cast item and a fret of photo etches. Full colour instruction booklet and huge decal sheet caters for four marking schemes.

- exquisitely detailed model, accurate dimensions and overall shape
- finely engraved panel lines
- almost A4-sized decal sheet which includes also complete stencilling for both the exterior and interior, flawlessly printed by Cartograf
- marking schemes for three RAF schemes and one machine operated by the French A??ronavale.

(Two of the British machines flew in the Far East in the support of anti-communist insurgent missions in Malaya and Korea, one machine took part in the British airlift during the Berlin blockade and the French machine was based at Lanv??oc-Poulmic Naval Base in 1951)