1/72 HAWKER TYPHOON IB MODEL S

Designed initially to replace the Hawker Hurricane as the complementary high-altitude fighter to the Super marine Spitfire, the Typhoon instead found its fame as a low-altitude ground-attack aircraft, spearheading the airborne assault through occupied Europe after D-Day. Designed around the enormous 24-cylinder Napier Sabre, the Typhoon has a tough gestation before maturing as a capable, low-level fighter-bomber, devastating German armor in Normandy and beyond.