‘The Silver Queen’ is Poland’s finest jet – the TS-11 Iskra. For many decades, all Polish fighter and fighter-bomber jet pilots trained on it. In our country, it is a legend. That’s why at Arma Hobby we had no doubt that our first injected model had to be the Iskra!
2015 – First injection moulds
The moulds for this model kit, as a start-up company in the injection moulding model business, exceptionally, only once, we ordered from China. It was a breakneck project, but in the end the mould came to us and the sprues have been produced in Poland since the beginning. This was happening in 2015, 10 years ago!
Although the Iskra kit doesn’t have the quality of our subsequent model kits, it is still a cool, buildable kit of a very interesting aircraft. Modellers have built lots of beautiful models from this kit, in the widest variety of paintwork and versions, both ‘straight-from-the-box’ and as advanced models superdetailed with PE parts, resins or self-made details.
Models and photos: Csaba Nagy-Meszler
Spark is back in the shops!
For the 10th anniversary of this model kit, we decided to reissue the Iskra, with three different boxes to choose from. The simplest one in the Junior version (70004), an Expert box includes additional photo-etched details and masks (70010) and ‘NOVAX’ kit – the same extras as in the Expert kit, plus resin radar parts (70011). As part of the promotion, until the end of January you can additionally order a set of resin 3D prints with very cool details for the Iskra together with the kit! Please note, after the end of the promotion the resin prints will no longer be available!
3D-printed detail set
Only until the end of January, when you buy a 1/72 scale Iskra you have the opportunity to add extra parts to it for a good price – a high quality set of resin 3D prints allowing you to superdetail the model even more! Just click on ‘Additions’ when making your purchase and select the appropriate option! If you already have some Iskra in your stash, you can also order two additional prints with the kit.
Optional set of resin 3D printed accessories includes:
- 2 seats with seatbelts
2 rudder bars and 2 control sticks
weighted wheels
front undercarriage leg with detailed fork
air intake grilles
If you prefer to print the details yourself, you can also buy the 3D file as a separate product.
TS-11 Iskra – Silver Queen
The TS-11 Iskra is a training, two-seater jet designed and manufactured in Poland. Introduced in the 1960s – it was used as a training aircraft (in Poland and India), a land and sea patrol aircraft and as the star of the Polish Air Force’s aerobatic team ‘’White and Red Iskras‘’ until the 2000s. Today, the Iskra is a popular light show and aerobatic jet worldwide, taking part in many air shows.
Choose and buy as Iskra (or several!) from three different boxings. In the promotion, only until the end of January, you can additionally order one or two sets of 3D printed resin details for each kit! Check out the promotion in the Armahobby.com online store!
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Modeller, son and father of a modeller. Loves digging through references and analysing old photographs. He builds aircraft, ship and vehicle models, the older the better. He has a weakness for Polish equipment, but does not despise the RAF, FAA and Great War topics. A journalist by training.
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