Airfix 1:72 RAF Rescue Launch Vintage Classic

Take on the modelling challenge of the RAF Rescue Launch, Vintage
Classics style. Reprising the popular 1:72 scale model kit of the past,
this Powerboat has 155 parts and two scheme options - which one will you
build?

During the Second World War, the danger of losing large numbers of
aircrew forced to ditch in the seas around the British Isles was very
real, resulting in the creation of the Royal Air Force Sea Rescue
Service, operating under the motto ‘The sea shall not have them’.

Using vessels designed by the British Powerboat Company and utilising
racing boat technology, this service was all about speed, with the Type
Two 63ft HSL ‘Whaleback’ being arguably their most distinctive craft.

Powered by three 24ltr Napier Sea Lion engines, these boats must have
sounded magnificent and it’s no wonder they were known as the ‘Spitfires
of the sea’.

What's Inside

Plastic model kit, instruction sheet, paint layout sheet and decals.

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