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IPMS USA ONLINE

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Dear customers,  If you cannot make it to the IPMS USA Phoenix, do not be sad and enjoy our IPMS USA online offer! You can order our items for the same price as if you were at the show. You will get a  20% discount  on all items from our production. Starting August 1 till August 15, 2018 or until sold out. The IPMS USA Phoenix sale is only for Special Hobby club members. If you are not a member yet, then register at  https://www.specialhobby.eu

Something amazing is going to happen soon

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SH72383 Vampire Mk.I - camouflage schemes completed

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Hot off the press - the marking schemes for Special Hobby's release of the very early Vampire jet fighter model have been finished and we are pleased to be able to share them with you now. Now we are about to start on the kit's instruction sheet and you can expect the kit release in August as scheduled.

SH72394 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 ‘Mersu Over Finland’ - boxart

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Just with a very slight delay, Standa Hajek has handed in his latest masterpiece, a boxart painting which is to adorn Special Hobby's SH72394 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 ‘Mersu Over Finland’ kit. This piece of art depicts a Mersu flown by the Finlan's top scoring fighter pilot, luutnantti Ilmari Juutilainen who gained 94 victories during the war, becoming also a top scoring, non-German, pilot of the Axis. Along this Mersu, the kit will also contain decals for two other Finnish machines, a photo-etched fret, two styles of resin wheels and exhausts.

SH48194 AF-3S Guardian - sprue with new version alternate parts

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A couple of days ago, our toolmakers finished the AF-3S Guardian's new moulding block and began to injection-mould these sprues which contain the new parts specific for this -3S version of the Guardian - the Magnetic Anomaly Detector gear, new set of spoked wheels with internal hub details and also a larger radar pod.

SH72383 Vampire Mk.I - decal sheet design and camouflage options

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This August, Speial Hobby is releasing the Vampire Mk.I in its very early form. The decal sheet will cater for as many as three British options (one of which took to the air yet before the end of hostilities, the two others flew in immediate post war times), one Australian machine - in fact it was the Australia's very first jet fighter plane and one machine as flew in France.

SH72394 Bf 109G-6 - marking options and decal sheet

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Our upcoming 1/72 Bf 109G-6 Mersu over Finland will offer the following marking options and decal sheet. Rather eye-catching livery, do you not think?

AH-1G Over Vietnam with M-35 - built by J.Kure

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Mr.Jiri Kure, living in faraway Australia, has shared with us photos of his latest build, the SH's 1/72 AH-1G Over Vietnam with M-35 . He added some more details to his chopper using photo-etched set no. K72028 . Awesome, thanks!

FR0039 Renard R-31 available on our e-shop

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The Azur-Frrom 1/72 Renard R-31 kit #FR0039 has become available via our e-shop, so get yours before this limited edition model disappears for good. The Renard R-31 is the most famous Belgian pre-war military aircraft, its aircrews took heroinc albeit quite tragic part in the defence of their country against German forces in 1940.

Summer discounts at cmkkits.com

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Summer is here and we decided to make it even better with our SUMMER SALE -25%! From July 16 till September 1, 2018 (or until sold out), you can buy all items at WWW.CMKKITS.COM with an awesome discount of 25%.    Don’t hesitate, we have a limited supply of some items. On our site you will also find a list of our new releases for July. The Special Hobby team wishes you a great summer

Newsletter Special Hobby 7/18

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The August edition of Special Hobby’s newsletter is here to bring you exclusive announcement of a couple of WW2-related items, both from Special Hobby range of plastic kits and CMK resin products. We would also like to mention our detail sets designed for the 1/72 U-Boot IX model, these sets will enable the modeller either to boost the detail levels or even convert the basic model to a different subtype. We cannot omit to bring up the first of several new sets made for the Special Hobby’s 1/72 CASA C-212 models. And more for this model to come soon. So, what you could expect to find on hobby shop shelves this August: A. Riedel SPECIAL HOBBY PLASTIC KITS DH.100 Vampire Mk.I 'RAF, RAAF and Armée de l'Air' 1/72 Art.no. Scale Barcode 100-SH72383 1/72 8594071086541 Development of jet fighter later to be named Vampire began in 1941 and related closely with development of H-1 jet engine, for which the engine section of de Havilland company was responsible. The engine wa