Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar — Handmade Metal Model Fighter Airplane
Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar — Handmade Metal Model Fighter Airplane
Model details
- Construction
- Handcrafted
- Collection
- Aviation Models - Airplanes Models
- Item no.
- AJ094
The Japanese Army's most-produced fighter of the war — and the one Allied pilots most often mistook for a Zero.
Handcrafted on an iron frame, hand-painted with decal insignia, metal propeller and rolling landing wheels.
Details
- 100% iron frame
- Metal propeller
- Landing wheels that roll
- Hand-painted with decal insignia
- Canopy, wing and tail detail
- Ready to display
The aircraft
The Ki-43 Hayabusa — Peregrine Falcon — was built to one obsession: manoeuvrability. It was extraordinarily light, fitted with butterfly combat flaps that tightened its turn further, and could out-turn almost anything sent against it.
The cost was everything else. Early versions carried two rifle-calibre machine guns, no armour and no self-sealing tanks. It shot down more Allied aircraft than any other Japanese Army fighter, and it burned when hit. Allied intelligence assigned it the reporting name Oscar; pilots frequently reported it as a Zero regardless.