Bloch MB. 152C1 - the French fighter

The history of this aircraft goes back to the first half of the 1930s, when the French Air Force ordered the design and production of a new fighter with retractable landing gear from French companies. According to those requirements, Morane-Saulnier produced its fighter MS - 406, the SNCA firm - the very good Dewoitine D - 520, and the firm of Marcel Bloch presented the MB. 150 fighter, which through the intermediate prototype MB. 151 became MB. 152 shortly before the start of World War II. A new semi-monocoque body structure was used for this plane, a powerful 1030 h. p. power engine Gnome - Rhone GR N-21. Serial planes are marked MB. 152C1. The first planes were delivered to combat units in July 1939. MB. 152 to produce even after the capitulation of France. By the end of the war about 500 copies of this fighter were produced. After the defeat of the Polish-German war in September 1939, a number of Polish pilots ended up in France and continued to fight the enemy there with these fighters.

A simple, but excellent graphically and structurally designed model of the 3rd Squadron GS II/6 Chateauroux – Deols, flown by Sergeant Eugeniusz Szaposznikow, who shot down 8 1/3 enemy aircraft during World War II. The model is intended for modellers of any experience, so a version without a cabin interior and with an included chassis is provided, which, under the supervision of a more experienced colleague, will perfectly stick even a beginner or a modeler with little experience.