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To follow on from my post of "Your most hoped for ships", now let me ask for your most hoped for aircraft. You can list as many nationalities as GHQ presently makes ships for, WWII and modern, but limit yourself to one pack of carrier aircraft and one of land based per nationality. Only four aircraft types per pack. Here are mine, all WWII:

US: Duck, Coronado, Privateer, Ventura

UK: (carrier) Skua, Sea Gladiator, Fulmar, Albacore
(land based): Hudson, Wellington, Anson, Halifax

German: Ju-88, He-111, He-115, Do-24

Japanese: Dave, Sonia, Ann, Claude

Italian: Z.501, Z.1007, SM.81, CR.42

Dutch: B-10, Hawk 75, Fokker T.VIII, Fokker T.V

French: Breguet 693, MS.406, Bloch 174, Potez 630

F14 with the wings FORWARD!

USN: F/A-18C, F-4B, J, N or S, A-4M, A-7E

Since DAVIDNOLA62 states “Only four aircraft types per pack.â€￾ This must be for the 1/2400 scale Micronaut range. I’ll provide my list of most-hoped-for 1/2400 aircraft packs here and start another for 1/285 Microarmor aircraft (one type per pack). The following list is in approximately my order of preference.

UK, WWII, Fleet Air Arm: (This is hard to reduce to just four types. I’d like to have Gloster Sea Gladiator and Hawker Sea Hurricane, but decided to limit the list to types that were designed specifically for carrier service.) Blackburn Skua fighter/bomber, Fairey Barracuda attack bomber, Fairey Fulmar fighter, Fairey Firefly fighter

Japan WWII, carrier-based: Aichi B7A Ryusei [Grace] attack bomber, Mitsubishi A7M Reppu [Sam] fighter, Nakajima C6N Saiun [Myrt] reconnaissance, Yokosuka D4Y3 [Judy] dive bomber

Germany, WWII: Excuse me for listing five types here; I’d like to have both Bf 109 and Fw 190, but the Germans have got to have at least one single-engined fighter. (Messerschmitt Bf 109 or Focke-Wulf Fw 190) fighter, Junkers Ju 88 bomber, Heinkel He 111 bomber, Heinkel He 115 floatplane

US, post-WWII, carrier-based: Grumman F7F Tigercat fighter, Grumman F8F Bearcat fighter, Douglas AD Skyraider attack bomber, Martin AM Mauler attack bomber

Japan, WWII, Army: Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa [Oscar],Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu [Nick], Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien [Tony], Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate [Frank] (all fighter aircraft)

US, WWII, land-based: Douglas A-20 Havoc attack bomber, Douglas A-26 Invader attack bomber, North American B-25 Mitchell (model H or J) medium bomber, Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber

UK, WWII, Coastal Command: Handley Page Hampden TB Mk II torpedo bomber, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk VII patrol bomber, Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X fighter/bomber, de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber

France, WWII, land-based: Bloch MB-150 single-engined fighter, Potez 630 twin-engined fighter, Bloch 175T torpedo/attack bomber, Sud-Est LeO 450 medium bomber

France, WWII, carrier-based (assuming Joffre class carriers were completed): Dewoitine D.790 (navalized version of D.520) fighter, Nieuport 40 dive bomber, Latécoère 299 torpedo bomber (I’m listing only three types here because that’s all that fit.)

US, WWII, patrol types: Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, Lockheed PV1 Ventura, Martin PBM Mariner, K-class blimp (OK, I’m cheating with a third group of US types)

Soviet Union, WWII: Yakovlev Yak-7 fighter, Lavochkin La-5 fighter, Ilyushin Il-4 bomber, Chyetverikov MDR-6 seaplane

Italy, WWII: Fiat CR.42, Macchi MC.200, Macchi MC.202, Macchi MC.205 (all fighter aircraft)

Don S.

You're right. I had intended this to be for Micronauts. How did I manage to forget that in the title? I'll go back and add it in.

I missed that part. Well two of my most hoped for still stand. To the A-4 and A-7 I will add the AD-1 and S-2.

I've been thinking about this one for a while now and I think I want to step outside the OP constraints in order to suggest a pack that I believe would be very useful but isn't for a country that GHQ already makes ships for, namely Argentina. I would finally like to see a pack that has Mirage/Dagger/Neshed, A-4, S-2, and either C-130 or Pucara. I think somebody makes everything else to do the Falklands but no Argentine aircraft. Forgive if this oversteps the boundary too far.

Well thought out and I absolutely concur

The Argentines also used Super Etendard and Canberra aircraft during combat for the Malvinas.

Don S.

Donald M. Scheef wrote:The Argentines also used Super Etendard and Canberra aircraft during combat for the Malvinas.

Don S.

I hadn't forgotten them but if limited to four types in a pack I picked the four most interesting/useful to me. I would be fine with six types in the pack or subbing the Super E for the C-130/Pucara slot.

Donald M. Scheef wrote:The Argentines also used Super Etendard and Canberra aircraft during combat for the Malvinas.

Don S.

I hadn't forgotten them but if limited to four types in a pack I picked the four most interesting/useful to me. I would be fine with six types in the pack or subbing the Super E for the C-130/Pucara slot.