Description
Scale plastic model 1/48 aircraft IL-2m3 "Berlin 1945" Academy 12357
Paints and glue are not included!
The kit includes:
sprues with parts,
1 sprue made of transparent plastic,
decal,
model painting scheme,
step-by-step instruction.
Il-2 took part in battles in all theaters of military operations of the Great Patriotic War, as well as in the Soviet-Japanese War.
The designers called the aircraft they developed a “flying tank.” Luftwaffe fighter pilots nicknamed the Il-2 “concrete plane” (German: Betonflugzeug). According to some Soviet authors, Wehrmacht soldiers called it “plague” (German: Schwarzer Tod, literally: “black death”).
The prototype, the “armored attack aircraft” BSh-2 (factory name TsKB-55), made its first flight on October 2, 1939 (test pilot V.K. Kokkinaki).
