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The upcoming DB-7 project got one more family member so to speak, as you can see, one of the small parts moulds has just been tested with almost complete success.

In a very few days we can expect these boxes to come out of the print, they are for the 1/72 F-84F Luftwaffe, F-84F USAF, the 1/48 Hi-Tech SMB.2 and 1/72 Biber submarine kits. While the Luftwaffe F84F and the SMB.2 are new releases, the Biber has been out of production for a few year now and the F-84F USAF is a last autumn release that was sold out about a month back. For the popular demand, we decided to launch the second batch. The final picture at the bottom is the blister card to come with the tiny piece of metal from the actual Luftwaffe F-84F that crashed on the territory of Czechoslovakia in October 1959.

 This release of the Captured Ki-54s (kit no.  SH72485 ) offers three interesting schemes and one of the machines was captured even twice. The complete contents of the model kit can be seen in today's photos.

The 1/72 Battle project gets one more step towards the final victory. And what a battle it is indeed with the Battle, quite lenghty one. Today we can reveal the clear parts sprue, ready and waiting for all the other sprues...

A few of the 1/72 Typhoon Mk.I (Airfix) 3D-printed sets is already available, the remaining ones being worked on now. What you might start looking for can be seen in the photos below. The cannon correction set is made for either side of the wings, the orange parts display the final levels of quality and detail while the grey parts are only preliminary and uncomplete. This is the list of all the sets that are supposed to get to the market. (first three and the wheels already available) 129-P72012         Typhoon Mk.I Engine 1/72 / for Airfix kit 129-P72013          Typhoon Mk.I Gun Sight and Seat Correction Set 1/72 / for Airfix kit 129-P72014         Typhoon Mk.I Three-blade Propeler 1/72   / for Airfix kit 129-P72015         Typhoon Mk.I Gun Bays 1/72   / for Airfix kit 129-P72016         Typhoon Mk.I Standard Exhausts 1/72   / for Airfix kit 129-P72017         Typhoon Mk.I Late Type Shrouded Exhausts   1/72 / for Airfix kit 129-P72022         Typhoon Mk.I Tailwheel w/Leg

The 1/48 scale Super Mystere B.2 model gets reboxed now by Special Hobby and its boxart is revealed below today. As you can see, the boxart style is identical to all our other Hi-Tech format model kits and we expect the boxes out of printers in coming days.

Today's photos take closer looks at the  progress our toolmakers have made with a few of the latest projects' moulds. While the 1/72 KFK (or Kriegsfischkutter boat) waits for some more tweaks, the 1/72 MB 210 mould insert is clamped to the milling machine getting the complex shapes done. This Marcel Bloch kit is to appear in Azur/Frrom boxes first, followed by our own release later.

The direct 3D print is getting more and more involved in the model making also here at Special Hobby, that is simply the truth. And yes, making models and sets this way is not cheap. It allows is to produce very complex shapes and assmeblies that would not be feasible any other way in the required levels of detail and quality. Take, for instance, model 8069  60 cm Flak Scheinwerfer (Flak Sw-36) mit Sd.Ah.51 / Světlomet 60N s vlekem in 1/48 (already available) or model 8070 Elektrischer Generator 8kw für Flak Sw-36 mit Sd.Ah.51 in 1/48 which is due for release soon.

   Yes Special Hobby are going to release another reboxing of the 1/72 scale F-84F Thunderstreak model kit. This time, the jet is depicted in liveries worn when it flew with the German Luftwaffe. And what might make the release even more interesting to the modellers is the piece of the real jet that will be included in the kit. These fragments were taken from the very F-84F that had crashed in the Sumava mountains back in 1959 during the Cold War. This machine is of course portrayed in our kit and is accompanyied with three more schemes...