Airfix 1:72 Messerschmitt Me410A-1/U2 & U4

Product Info
The Messerschmitt Me410 was developed as a heavy fighter but went on to perform several roles such as night fighter, bomber destroyer and reconnaissance. Entering service two years later than scheduled in 1943 as a replacement for the Me210, the aircraft featured several distinctive features including the twin gun barbettes. 

The Me410 was essentially a development of the 210 featuring a lengthened fuselage, revised wings and more powerful engines. Although the Me410 performed well, it entered service too late to make an impact on the tide of war and was soon relegated to reconnaissance roles.

The Messerschmitt Me410 is undoubtedly one of the most impressive looking aircraft types of the Second World War, the ultimate incarnation of Germany's fascination with the Zerstörer heavy fighter concept.

Today, just a single complete example of a Messerschmitt Me410 is to be found on display anywhere in the world, one of the prized aviation possessions maintained by the Royal Air Force Museum at their Midlands RAF Cosford site, the very aircraft Airfix scanned at the outset of this exciting new model tooling project.

Although an excellent and extremely heavily armed aircraft, the Me410 could not adequately defend itself against the latest Allied single engined fighters. No match for the latest Spitfires, Tempests, and P-51D Mustangs, once USAAF commanders freed their fighters from bomber protection duties and allowed then to go hunting the Luftwaffe, any advantage the heavily armed Me410s had were effectively negated and if caught in the gunsights of Allied fighters, they were unlikely to survive the encounter.

Production of the Messerschmitt Me410 ended during August 1944, when the manufacturing lines were switched to producing single engined Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighters for home defence duties, however by that stage in the war, things were already looking rather futile for the struggling Luftwaffe.

What's Inside
Plastic model kit, instruction sheet, paint layout sheet and decals.

A04066 - Messerschmitt Me410A-1/U2, 11./ Zerstörergeschwader 26, Gardermoen, Norway, 1945. (A)

Requires Glue and Paints to assemble 

No 33 Black - Matt
No 53 Gunmetal - Metallic
No.54 Brass Metallic
No 56 Aluminium - Metallic
No 62 Leather - Matt
No 85 Black - Satin
No 70 Brick Red - Matt
No 79 Blue Grey - Matt
No 240 RLM 02 Grau - Matt
No 241 RLM 70 Schwartzgrun - Matt
No 245 RLM 74 Graugrun - Matt
No 246 RLM 75 Grauviolett - Matt
No 247 RLM 76 Lichtblau - Matt