Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War

[Ben2]

For reasons that will become clear in a week or two, I am asking about the availability of aircraft to the Nationalists and Republicans during the Spanish civil war. I am also looking for manufacturers for said aircraft in 1/600 scale.
Here is what I have uncovered so far.

Republican

I-15 (Russian Biplane fighter, Tumbling Dice)
I-16 (Russian Monoplane fighter, Tumbling Dice)
SB-2 (Russian Monoplane bomber, Tumbling Dice)
Posov (French Monoplane bomber, Tumbling Dice)

Nationalist

Italian

CR32 (Italian Biplane fighter, Tumbling Dice)
CR42 (Italian Biplane fighter, Tumbling Dice) - not sure if took part.
SM79 (Italian Monoplane bomber, Tumbling Dice)
M200 (Italian Monoplane fighter, Tumbling Dice) - not sure if took part

Condor Legion

BF109 A-C (German monoplane fighter, Tumbling Dice)
JU-87 Stuka (German monoplane dive bomber, Tumbling Dice)

Heinkel-51 Biplane fighter (staple of Condor Legion fighters, no manufacturer found)
JU-52 converted bomber (staple of Condor Legion strategic bombers, no manufacturer)
ARADO ground attack aircraft (I think AR-43, but not positive, biplane light bomber still saw service on Russian front until 1944 as a tank buster/close infantry support) - no manufacturer.

Possibly used by both sides (Pre-civil war Spanish airforce)

DH9 WWI Biplane (Tumbling Dice)
Spanish Fury (Spanish produced Hawker Fury biplane fighter, tumbling dice).

I don't know if both sides deployed these aircraft and in what numbers.

Can anyone give me more info on the air arms that may be encountered at sea/near the coast during the SCW for both sides? The Nationalists have the bigger range but there are some important holes in the Condor Legion forces.

I have plenty of details on the ships already and have started statting them up, but aircraft I know less about and will post here for balancing seperate to anything else.
I'm particularly concerned about biplane fighters (which I think should have a dogfight bonus ranging from 0 to +2 depending on how advanced) but I'm worried we will end up with 1 skirmish point buys 6 flights of fighters. The Detwoine 520 at DF +3 1 point damage is 4 per skirmish point already, so five seems the minimum for rubbish bi-fighters.

Thoughts?

 

[chaos0xomega]

Im guessing you're putting together a campaign or somesort of display or something?

All waht I can say is, "Long live the Nationalists!"

 

[juggler69uk]

Some websites to check out

http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/spain/did.html << did take part

http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/spain/might.html << Might have taken part


http://usuarios.lycos.es/mrval/GCE.HTM <<< spanish site but tons of info

Hope it helps
Terry

 

[Ostmann]

I know this is not what you exactly asked for, but I thought I'd recomend an excelent book on the Spanish civil war

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Beevor, he has just had it reprinted, as new evidence etc came to light, I have the hardback by Orion Books ISBN 0-2978-4832-1

Thanks
Al

 

[Natxo]

Hello from Spain.

I have recently started playing this game.
I must say that the SCW didn´t produced too much naval combats, but if you have questions, I will try to help you, and I can also help you with translations.

About the planes, the M200 arrived too late, and only took part in a few actions, but without any interesting results.

The Spanish Fury only fought the first months, as it became obsolescent too soon.

I have somebooks about this. I will look it for you and post it here.