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I'm delighted to share our latest 1:144th scale Spanish Civil War aircraft – the ill-known Heinkel He-112, main competitor to Messerschmitt Bf-109 for the 1933 Luftwaffe fighter contract.
Despite losing the mentioned contest, small numbers of it were nonetheless used by Germany for a short time and several more were acquired by Spain, Hungary and Romania. Japan also purchased and used about a dozen He-112s before giving priority to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.