SPECIAL HOBBY 72457 BUGATTI 100 ‘FRENCH RACER PLANE’ 1/72

In the pre-war years, Ettore Bugatti, a well-known race car designer, took the opportunity and decided to also turn to aviation and come up with a racing plane concept that was to win the hugely popular Deutsch de la Racing de Muerthe. At first the aircraft had to be equipped with a single engine, this was then reconsidered and two powertrains were used, placed asymmetrically in the sleek fuselage, each driving its propeller - there were two, counter-rotating. In this form, the plane was even supposed to break the world speed record. The aircraft was completed and prepared just before the war began but had to be put out of sight of the advancing German army. The Bugatti prototype is now on display at the EAA Aviation Museum in the United States.

This kit contains two clusters of styrene and only one with clear injected awning. As the machine was blue in color with no marking, the kit has no sheet of decals. There are, however, two patterns, the other representing a fictional pattern.

- has never been marketed as a plastic kit

- Interesting and unorthodox construction

- Detailed PUR air intakes