LF Models – PE7258 – Fokker C.VE M/33 (Luftwaffe, Finland)

Description:

Fokker C.VE M/33
(Luftwaffe, Finland)

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of an interewars Dutch Fokker C.V reconnaissance and light bomber biplane aircraft. E series was the main production version, with over 300 units built. It was a bomber variant, widely exported, to Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Norway, Sweden, or Switzerland.

LF Models released in the past several variants of the Fokker C.V, including the E variant, but has retooled part of the molds so fuselage and other parts are newly tooled. Kit includes decal sheet with one Finnish marking and two German ones.

Finland purchased servel Fokker C.Vs during 20s and 30s, and also received 3 from Sweden during the Winter War (1939) but Sweden Fokker C.VE were powered by Mercury engines, while Finnish one were powered by Pegasus engines. The original Finnish Fokker C.Vs used markings FO-65 to FO−77, decal sheet includes the marking FO-71.

German obtained their Fokker C.Vs after Denmark invasion in 1939. Later these were flown by Estonian volunteers, performing night ground attacks in 1944. Kit includes two decals from the Nachtschlachtgruppe 11 (Night Ground Attack Wing 11), two Estonian defectors flew their aircrafts to Sweden, and one of the aircrafts was returned to Denmark in 1947.