The German dive bomber and ground attack aircraft Junkers Ju.87, best known as “Stuka”, was widely used during the first part of the Battle of Britain and is featured in one of the Squadron Packs released together with the new WW2 Wings of Glory Starter Set. While some stories suggest that the Stuka came about because Ernst Udet fell in love with the American Curtis “Goshawk,” …
Stay Away! is a contagious horror game, inspired by Cthulhu mythos and Carpenter’s “The Thing” movie. In the game, an archaeological expedition group mysteriously disappears during an exploration of the risen island of R’lyeh, and a rescue team is sent to aid them. As they investigate the site, they encounter something terrible that seeks to destroy the team from within. The game was launched by the …
The Hawker Hurricane Mk.I, one of the fighters featured in the WW2 Wings of Glory Squadron Packs, was very much a “transitional” design between the past and the future. It was Britain’s first low-wing monoplane fighter, but originally made with a boxy construction and doped linen covering that was not that different from early Sopwith biplanes. Metal covered (and much lighter constructed) wings first appeared in …
The backbone of the Luftwaffe’s fighter force in WW2, the Messerschmitt Bf.109 is now coming in both the WW2 Wings of Glory Battle of Britain Starter Set and in a Squadron Pack, in its E-3 version. Also called Me 109, it’s one of the most enduring fighter designs in history. Selected in direct competition with three other vendors, the Me 109 combined the smallest, lightest airframe …
One of the aircrafts coming in WW2 Wings of Glory is the Supermarine Spitfire, the only Allied fighter aircraft in WW2 to fight in front line service from the beginnings of the conflict, in September 1939, through to the end in August 1945. Originally designed to be a short-ranged interceptor, the airframe proved able to take increasingly powerful engines and perform in a wide variety of …
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