DB-7 Havoc Mk.I – Intruders

Special Hobby will soon release the new Douglas Havoc Mk.I 1:72 model kit, which incorporates the most recent research into the aircraft’s night-intruder role.
Not long before World War II broke out, France purchased the newly designed DB-7 bombers made by the Douglas Company in the USA. Some of the machines were equipped with P&W R-1830 engine and had a short and narrow tail fin. They arrived in battle in 1940. French aircraft continued to fly and fight until 1945. Sometimes they even switched sides. France could not take all the machines ordered before its defeat in 1941, so they went to Britain where some were used as Havoc Mk.I Bombers. The next machines were powered by the Wright R-2600, and they are known as Havoc Mk.II/Boston Mk.III. Havoc Mk.I was designed for the role of a light bomber and did not have a night radar. Intruders equipped with night exhausts were used for night attacks on enemy airfields, whereas those with radars were employed to protect the skies of Britain. The DB-7 Havoc Mk.I ‘Intruders’ kit set includes three Intruder machines painted in all-black with night exhausts, and one bomber machine that has a special test colour scheme. We only learned of one thing important about the Havoc engines after we finished the moulding tooling. We had all the scale drawings and reference material we could find, even those from 2024. All of them showed the exhausts on the outer side of the engine’s nacelles. As I researched the camouflage scheme, it was clear this is a long-repeated error. The DB-7/Havoc Mk.I aircraft had exhaust stacks on both sides of the nacelles. On the outside as well as the inside. Our latest kit includes two sets of night exhausts, two standard pairs and correction pieces for the cowling flaps. We are also going to prepare correction set for Azur/Frrom’s FR0052 kit. We are also going to prepare correction set for Azur/Frrom’s FR0052 kit.