Ottoman Flagship

So, here we have it – the first of this year’s not-Salute releases. As an opener, we have the might of the Ottoman Air Fleet – the Constantinople class Dig Battleship. This model replaces the older design of the same vessel, which was previously called the Abdül Aziz*.

The Aziz is large semi-rigid airship with an armoured superstructure. The main armament consists of two huge circular turrets, with an impressive secondary battery in the superstructure and the lower gondola.

As mentioned earlier this week, all of our new releases which had originally been intended for Salute will be discounted for the first three weeks of sale by 7.5%; in addition, the same amount will be donated to HEROES, a fund set up to help frontline NHS staff as they battle the Covid-19 outbreak. So the Constantinople will be discounted by 68p, and for each sale we’ll donate the same amount to HEROES – this will run until April 24th.

VAN-2001 – Constantinople class Dig Battleship – £9.00 £8.32

* – it appears that the name Abdül Aziz throws up all sorts of red flags within PayPal – every time someone orders one of these, the payment is held back while it’s checked to make sure we aren’t funding terrorist organisations or sending money to banned countries ! So to avoid delays like this, it just seemed safer to rename the model…