These are in the local pop-up discount
store, and you get three colourful jets, two with vaguely Asian or
Asian-reminiscent markings (South Vietnam (orange) and China/North Korea/North
Vietnam (blue) ?), the other even more generic in yellow and all three the same
die-cut design. Red Deer - it's the fourth or fifth item from them, found by
Peter Evans or myself in the last couple of years, so some importer's nom
de jour!
I shelfied these awhile ago, but they still
have them and I may purchase one (for the life-changing amount of a whole
quid!) for next time, as when I was putting everything away in the garage a
year ago I found the storage lot and - as I mused before - there is a four-prop Lancaster! . . . and several older promotional/advertising
freebies/giveaways in balsa, so another post due on these in a year or so . . . got to top-up the tag occasionally!
I was so intrigued by the FW Trainer on the
pack-back listings last-time, when I saw them together somewhere, I bought both
to compare, as with the others (about five brandings now, these are Rex - London (Rex - International)) the
printing as been allowed to deteriorate with age and the change in material
they are printed on - they used to be balsa but have been expanded-polystyrene
sheet for a couple of decades, or more now.
You can see where the original German
crossed have been Photoshop'ped out (although that probably happened before
'Photoshop' ever existed) which is odd as it's the swastika that has the
cultural-association problems attached; not the cross?
The 'A-4' looks like a Focke Wolf, I fear the
'TA 152H' trainer (an Eocke Wolf!) is using the same dies as the Japanese Zero!
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