The second episode of our last week's Operation Ball Lightning took place yesterday and the last of in total three nearly new injection presses found its new home within Special Hobby premises.
Eager modellers have been asking for some news about the 1/48 Baltimore project progress and our answer was only that it was being worked on, more precisely the smaller and interior parts were those the designer had his hands on. And voila, now we are happy to finally be able to bring you something more tangible...
To get to our readers in time, each of our regular newsletters needs to be prepared and written well ahead of the issue date. And when I was writing in the previous one that the third new model to become available this September would be a very interesting aeroplane with an important connection to the history of Czechoslovak aviation – The Blue Bird or the Aero Ab-11 (SH72471), I really did not realise how very much wrong I was. Now I have to admit that the Murphy’s law has worked incredibly well all along the work on this project, and especially well worked the first and most important of the laws – if anything at all can go wrong, it will. Some setbacks had already appeared before the final and most crucial stages of the Blue Bird project, but when we got to finals, almost every aspect went simply wrong and the project got stuck. So, here we are now, the Blue Bird coming your way with a month of delay. Other good news is, all the other models and sets are ready for you now, rea...
The 1/48 Heinkel He 177A is arguably one of our most asked for models long time out of production. Yes all we might do now is to inject a required number of sprues and restock the model and that would be it. But not, this is not what we aim for. Some of the original moulds have been replaced with new ones which can assure much better quality notable mainly in the smaller parts. The new moulds are 3D machined and the images below show very well the levels of detail this new method brings. This so to speak old-new bird is scheduled for 2023 release.
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