1/32 Arado Ar196B

Description

This is an injection-plastic aircraft model kit.

From the manufacturer:

The Ar 196 is the German Navy’s most famous on-board catapult aircraft of the Second World War. Used initially and in the main as an on-board reconnaissance aircraft, it was also used for submarine hunting and for attacking smaller ships in all European theatres until the end of the War.

Features of this kit include:

• Finely structured surfaces with recessed panel joints
• Detailed inner steel tube framework
• Detailed cockpit with pilots seat and instrument panel
• Detailed radio operators panel
• Rear MG position with seat and reserve magazines
• Detailed MG 15 on a rotating mount
• Side MG FF
• Separate oil tank
• Wings can be built in a choice of folded or the normal flight position
• Separate ailerons
• Separate flaps
• Individual navigation lights
• Detailed ventral float
• Pod with the stern rudder in 2 positions
• Two side mounted stabilizing floats
• Detailed BMW 132 engine
• Separate inlet and exhaust manifolds
• Separate maintenance panels on the engine and front fuselage
• Cockpit furnishings with hand-grips and levers
• 2 bladed propeller
• Display platform