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ACADEMY MODELS
pocketbond.co.uk

WHIRLYBIRDS AND A COLD WAR WARRIOR, READY TO BATTLE FOR YOUR ATTENTION…
Advance notice of forthcoming new releases have been sent in my our friends at Pocketbond. All are reissues from MRC and Accurate Miniatures tools, except the
F-14A which is a new tool. All are expected January/February 2020. The list of new items is as follows:

1:35 US ARMY UH-1C FROG (HUEY) - EX MRC 1:35 USMC AH-1W NTS UPDATE (SUPER 1:35 US ARMY OH-58D BLACK DEATH -
TOOL - PKAY12112 COBRA SPECIAL) - AY12116 PKAY12131

1:72 USN F-14A VF-143 PUKIN’ DOGS - PKAY12563
New tooling. Includes drop tanks and air-to-air weaponry, variable geometry wings can be built fully extended or
closed, Cartograf markings for VF-143 ‘Pukin’ Dogs’ on board USS America 1976 & VF-51 ‘Screaming Eagles’
on board USS Carl Vinson 1983.

1:48 USMC SBD-1 PEARL HARBOR - PKAY12331
Ex-Accurate Miniatures tooling. Detailed cockpit and landing gear. Assemble with dive fl aps closed
or open. Markings for (1) SBD-1 2-MB-2 of VMSB-232 Red Devils, MCAS Ewa Mooring Mast
Field, Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941; (2) SBD-1 132-B-4 of VMSB-132 Crying Red Asses, MCAS
Quantico, Virginia USA late 1941. Mask tape for clear parts & photo-etch parts included.

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