The elves at Santa's workshop (Kiev branch at Roden) Are hard at work with Roden's Dec. 2010 releases. Kits, # 059 Nieuport 24 bis in 1:72 scale and # 301 DC-7C Pan American World Airways (PAA) in 1/144 scale.

Greetings from snowy Kiev!

With this message we announce you two new model kits:

# 059 Nieuport 24 bis in 1/72 scale
Nieuport 24bis – French fighter of the WWI period, developed by Gustave Delage from its predecessor Nieuport 24. Planes of this type had the tail assembly of an earlier configuration, previous to the one which was employed by the Nieuport 24. The type appeared in the middle of 1917, when most of the Nieuports were being replaced by the modern SPAD fighter which is why it had only limited combat use. Apart from France, the Nieuport 24bis was flown by the U.S., Britain, and in Soviet Russia and in Poland. The famous French ace Charles Nungesser flew a Nieuport 24bis in combat.

# 301 DC-7C Pan American World Airways (PAA) in 1/144 scale
The Douglas DC-7C was an American four-engined plane produced in the early 1950's. The main task of this aircraft was transcontinental flight between the United States and the capitals of Europe and Asia. For a few years the DC-7C was the flagship aircraft of the world's leading airlines, such as the American Pan Am, Dutch KLM, Scandinavian SAS and Japanese JAL. With the beginning of the jet era the DC-7C was retired and converted into a transport and fire fighting aircraft. Use of the type in third world countries continued until the end of the twentieth century. A total of 337 DC-7's of all variations were produced. This aircraft is considered a classic and one of the most important passenger aircraft of all time.