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News from Special Hobby 07/2024

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Dear business friends,    Let me kick off with good news indeed, those fabulous 1/48 SH48238 and SH48238B SMB-2 Super Mystère  'Sa’ar – Israeli Storm in the Sky' Hi-Tech model kits have got back on offer and as I write this piece, the kits are being packaged and prepared for the customers to fulfill the orders we unfortunately were not able to fulfill earlier, and of course we are also ready to accept your new orders for these kits. So do not hesitate :-)    This newsletter's most important new release is the 1/48 SIAI-Marchetti SF-260M/AM/W kit, which will hopefully become as successful as its smaller 1/72 scale cousin. Double-sided inside/outside set of spray masks is also being prepared for this release, plus three more (so-far) detail sets. One of them resin cast, the other two will be 3D printed. Another new item for this newsletter is the 1/72 Fokker D.21 which gets onto the offer after a couple of years. The same story is the re-release of the 1/72 scale Seafire FR M
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Boxarts in the print

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These days these new two boxtops are about to be shipped from the printers.... While FR0052 is to become available instantly, the SF-260 SH48215 will need a bit more thime. 
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1/48 Remote-Controlled Gun for the Hetzer

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Those who prefer the 1/48 scale have long wished for a Hetzer remote controleld MG 34 machine gun for their Tamiya kit. So nothing impossible, we just dowscaled our earlier set and voila, there you are!
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1/48 B-26B/C Marauder - upcoming sets pt.1

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ICM's new 1/48 Marauder will get a welcome series of SH detail sets, among which is also these wheel set and a spent shell cases collector. The wheels will also be downscaled to 1/72.
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US classic in Blue and Yellow coming - 1/72 SH72446 B-12 Bomber

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One of Special Hobby team's latest efforts is this 1930s colourful classic bomber machine from the times of the Blue fuses and Yellow Wings flying in large fromations over California.... The B-12 bomber kit will cover four various schemes, three in this eye catching scheme, the fourth in aluminium overall. The first scheme we can offer you now is this no.111 of the famous 9th Bomb Squadron...
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Weasel version C, small and mid sized.

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Our team are working on the M29C Weasel kits in two various sizes. While the 1/72 release is to be made via direct 3D print and wil be available in our MV range, its slightly larger cousin in CMK range migh combine 3D printed parts with resin cast nad etched ones. Both kit sets of the amphibious Weasel vehicle will offer much better detail levels than the already available M29 verisons, kits 0 MV117 and  8049 .
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German Jet vs Czech Hill - F-84F Thunderstreak SH72505 ‘Reborn Luftwaffe’

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Matthias Becker, the editor of Jet & Prop Magazine from Germany, shares with our readers a few photos of his latest model, 1/72 SH72505  F-84F Thunderstreak ‘Reborn Luftwaffe’. Each of the model kit contains a fragment of the actual F-84F that crashed on a hillside in Czechoslovakia back in the Cold War days. No need to point out that the kit got sold out completely very very quickly. Matthias' model portrays one of the unfortunate German jets. And if this is the model you are after, then we have two more releases still available,  SH72395  in US guise or  SH72492 with markings of French and Israeli machines.
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FR0052 1/72 DB-7 schemes

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Azur Frrom's release of the DB-7 bomber, kit no FR0052 offer the following three French schemes.
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Havoc Intruder boxart

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To be released very very soon is the 1/72 BD-7 twin engine bomber with French marking. The model kit has been prepared by Special Hobby for our French partner at Azur Frrom and is to be available under cat. no FR0052. In our own range, we are going to release the DB-7 as the RAF Havoc Mk.I Intruder kit, depicting the beasts flying at night over occupied Europe. The breathtakingly suggestive boxart is created by Tomek Wajnkam.
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Black all over, and yet without the Hercules. What could it be? Yes, the Mk.II Beaus!

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   All the production Beaufighters flew with the Hercules power plants. With only one exception which was the Mk.II version fitted with the in-line MErlins. Those engines were much sleeker and so the Mk.II Beaus had completely redesigned engine nacelles, too. The vast majority of them flew night fighter duties over the British Isles, some examples were in use by the FAA and some even found their way far far to Gibraltar.   In today's photos we are so very happy to be able to showcase Honza Šimon's (of the Merry Model Builders Club) model that has been built from Airfix's kit and using our CMK7490 conversion set.  In fact, Special Hobby produce two sets, early Beau  7489  and late one  7490 . 
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