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

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.

   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 . 

The coming SH72501 Seafire FR Mk.47 model kit offers four schemes. Although it may seem that the  Mk.47 Seafires looked all the same, it was not the case. Putting aside the first examples with EDSG and DSG top surfaces, the standard production machines in EDSG on the tops and Sky below flew in at least two various schemes - with the fuselage demarcation a bit lower, going through the camera port and with the wing root panels dark, whilst the other ones had the demarcation almost above the camera port. The earlier case can be seen on the first three of our schemes, the latter on the fourth one.

A Kitty of the SAAF (South African Air Force), flying combat duties over Italy, is here magnificently portrayed by Marcel Nový, and it is also another one of Marcel's plentiful South African models. The morel kit is by Special Hobby  SH72484 while the decals come from Marcel's stash.

Dear business friends,    1At the end of the previous Newsletter I wrote that the 1/72 SH72505 F-84F Thunderstreak 'Reborn Luftwaffe' kit containing a fragment of a real aircraft would soon become sold out. Yes it became. The entire limited edition is sold out. Which is good, it's proof that we've hit on the tastes of our customers. SH48238 and SH48238B SMB-2 Super Mystère 'Sa'ar – Israeli Storm in the Sky' in Hi-tech design is also currently out of our offer. But that's not good. The model is produced in cooperation with our Ukraine based friend and unfortunately, due to this fact that and also thanks to Putler's imperial dreams that causes real bombs and missiles fall onto Ukraine, the production of model airplane kits runs into problems that we, in the middle of Europe, cannot even imagine. Despite all the problems, we believe that SH48238 and SH48238 B will return to our offer within only a few weeks.    But let's get to the positive things. ...