Henschel Hs 129 B-3

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The Star Performer Has Arrived!! The true essence of "Tank Buster" revealed by SWS.
The Hs 129, feared as the "flying can opener" by the Allied soldiers, will finally be released as an impressive SWS kit in 1/32 scale!
The Henschel Hs 129 was the tank buster mounted with powerful ground-attack weapons to destroy Soviet tanks in the Second World War. It was a small twin-engine aircraft with an overall width of 14.2 m and length of 9.75 m, powered by two inefficient French-made Gnome-Rhône "14 M" 14-cylinder double-row star-cooled engines (700 hp) with a range of 880 km, not much different from that of the Bf 109, and its maximum speed was 407 km/h, which was not so high. However, designed specifically for ground attacks and known to be easy to service, the Hs 129 earned a high level of trust from its pilots. Several kits have been released in the past because of its peculiar shape, but they were mainly 1/72 kits, which just replicated its outer shape. This kit brings you all the details of the structure and it function in a way that only heavily-researched SWS kits can.

The three major points of Hs 129 B-3

• The true essence of "Tank Buster" revealed by SWS. The Henschel Hs 129 was mounted with powerful ground-attack weapons to destroy Soviet tanks in the Second World War. Designed specifically for ground attacks and known to be easy to service, the Hs 129 earned a high level of trust from its pilots. This kit brings you all the details of the structure and it function in a way that only heavily-researched SWS kits can.
  
  
• Developed to be a heavily-armed ground-attack aircraft Hs 129 and its final evolution B-3’s standard armament consisted of two MG 17/7.92mm machine guns mounted in the wing roots and one BK 7,5/75mm anti-tank gun beneath the fuselage. Although the MG 17 on the wing is not mounted on the aircraft with the markings used in this kit, we replicated the BK 7.5 mounted on this aircraft employs a large drum magazine that holds 12 75mm shells and is automatically loaded by electromagnetic pneumatic control.
  
  
• The Hs 129 was designed to be a compactly-sized ground-attack aircraft. In particular, the B and later versions had a trapezoidal fuselage with straight wings, a textbook example of simplistic, sturdy design. With its closely-situated engine nacelles and cowlings, once can truly appreciate its functional beauty as a small twin-engine aircraft. This SWS kit pushes the limits to thoroughly replicate that functional beauty as a “miniature version of the real aircraft.”