AZ Model – AZ7670 – HA-1112M-1L Buchón “The Air Show Star”

Description:

HA-1112M-1L Buchón
“The Air Show Star”

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a Hispano Aviación HA-1112 “Buchón”, a post war develop in Spain based on the Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2.

In 1942 Spain purchased 25 Bf 109G-2, but only the airframes arrived, no engines, weapons or even tails. Spain self developed two variants, one based in the Hispano-Suiza, HS 17-12Z, with a 3 blades propeller and a second variant with a Rolls-Royce Merlin and a 4 blades propeller.

This late variant, produced from 1954 remained in service till 1965 and although the new Merlin engine altered the original silhouette of the Bf-109 they appeared in air shows and films depicting the popular German fighter aircrafts.

Kit includes decal sheet with 3 markings seen on air shows, as German fighters. All of them the 4 blades propeller variant, distinguishable by the exhausts top in the nose and the bulb below.