Description
+6 skirmish maps
SCALE: 1/32 Scale
MODEL: Plastic Model Kit
(including 2-color molded parts, Sand Brown and Clear)
PARTS: Total Parts: 428
1. The true essence of "Tank Buster," revealed by SWS.
The Henschel Hs 129 was mounted with powerful ground-attack weapons to destroy Soviet tanks in the Second World War. Designed specifically for ground attacks and known to be easy to service, the Hs 129 earned a high level of trust from its pilots. This kit brings you all the details of the structure and it function in a way that only heavily-researched SWS kits can.
2. Developed to be a heavily-armed ground-attack aircraft, the Hs 129’s standard armament consisted of two 20 mm MG 151 machine guns behind the cockpit and two 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns mounted in the wing roots.
The underside of the fuselage could be equipped with various types of explosives or heavy-caliber weapons. This kit enables the replication of the Hs 129 B-2/RIII armed with a 30 mm MK 101 cannon and its 30-round drum magazine.
3. The Hs 129 was designed to be a compactly-sized ground-attack aircraft.
In particular, the B and later versions had a trapezoidal fuselage with straight wings, a textbook example of simplistic, sturdy design. With its closely-situated engine nacelles and cowlings, once can truly appreciate its functional beauty as a small twin-engine aircraft. This SWS kit pushes the limits to thoroughly replicate that functional beauty as a “miniature version of the real aircraft.”
The Hs 129’s trapezoidal cockpit was extremely cramped due to its narrow frame. The instrument panel was reduced to only the most vital elements and the gun sight was mounted on the top of the nose outside of the cockpit. Some of the instruments were mounted to the inboard faces of the engine nacelles, like other German aircraft including the Bf 110 and Ju 88. The cockpit was encased in a sturdy fortress-like armored “bathtub” to protect the pilot from ground-based anti-aircraft gunning. The windscreen was made from multi-layer 75 mm-thick bullet-proof glass and the top 2/3 of the window was retractable to improve the ease of entering the cockpit. However, this essentially eliminated any rear visibility and greatly reduced the front visibility. The SWS kit replicates the subtle differences for the different armament versions, in additional to the shared instruments.
