News from Special Hobby 11/2024

Dear Business Friends,     Now you have received this year's penultimate Special Hobby Newsletter. Among all the new releases this month, you will also find the DB-7 Havoc Mk.I Intruder kit set. And this kit does show very well why we love our work. It is not just about producing and selling the scale model kits, an important part of our jobs is also in finding tiny pieces of history, half forgotten stories and facts and fixing some long living mistakes. And this mentioned kit is just such one that has now the chance to put some errors of the past to a new light. In addition, we managed to combne the stories of some very brave airmen with actual Havoc airframes. Other of this month's kits are also worth your attention. Following last month's Boomerang, now the 1/48 Wirraway is here again on the offer in a new boxing. We have also prepared a re-release of the 1/48 AH-1G Cobra, now wearing very attractive US Navy and marines liveries.    Let us also mention very interesting stuff among the upcoming resin or 3D printed models and sets. The MQM-74A Chukar was widely used target drone and now it comes to the offer in the form of a 1/72 3D-printed kit set. The same vehicle is to be released before the end of the year in the 1/48 scale. Next, another kit worthy of your attention, is the 1/72 M29C Weasel. This is a 3D-printed kit that also conains a sheet of decals and a fret of etches. The figure of an RAF mechanic with the accumulator trolley is also extraordinary. The trolley is also available in 1/72 scale.    We will do our best to prepare the December new releases in time to get to the pre-Christmas market to make you happy during the festive season whatever is the way you celebrate it. However, let us focus on the December and next year's new items on a late ocassion. Now, we do look forward to your orders. A. Riedel SPECIAL HOBBY PLASTIC MODEL KITS

CAC Wirraway ‘In training and combat’ 1/48 Art.no. Scale Barcode 100-SH48242 1/48 8595593131931    The Wirraway was an Australian adaptation of the US-built Texan aircraft and it served as for pilot training, reconnaissance and ground attack missions. In combat areas, the Wirraways were also used to identify and mark enemy targets. The Wirraway was produced in a couple of series, differing in some details and internal equipment. The kit comes on three styrene sprues, one with clear parts, it also contains a set of resin cast parts, etches and a decal sheet wiht markings for two machines, one of which was flown in norhtern Australia, coloured yellow overall and with large number on the fuse, the other one was operated in New Guinea in a green scheme with white empennage. -    limited release -    separately availabe: resin cast wheels and masks Read more

AH-1G Cobra ‘Marines / US Navy’ 1/48 Art.no. Scale Barcode 100-SH48235 1/48 8595593132259    In the US Marine Corps and the Navy, there were much less AH-1G Cobras than in the US Army. And even so, Marine Cobras fought in Vietnam and as well as the Navy machines, they wore attractive colour schemes. Those of you who fancy naval machines will now have a nice and welcome chance to build such Cobra helicopter model using our new boxing which offers four scheme options, two from the Vietnam war, two from the US. Three of them as flown with the Marines, the fourth belonged to the Navy. Superbly detailed model consists of as many as ten grey styrene sprues and one with clear parts. -    extremely attractive colour schemes -    separately available – masks and other accessory sets. Read more

DB-7 Havoc Mk.I ‘Intruders’ 1/72 Art.no. Scale Barcode 100-SH72467 1/72 8595593131924     Not long before the outbreak of WW2, France ordered the then newly developed DB-7 light bombers from the Douglas company in the USA. Some machines, powered by P&W R-1830 engines and fitted with a narrow and short tail fin, were actually received and deployed in combat in 1940. The French machines went on flying and fighting until 1945, sometimes also switching sides. Before its defeat in 1940, France was not able to take over all of the ordered machines so some of them went to Britain instead where they were operated as the Havoc Mk.I bombers. Next machines, which were powered with the Wright R-2600 and known as the Havoc Mk.II / Boston Mk.III followed. The first Havoc Mk.I versions flew in the light bomber role and were not equipped with a specialised night radar. The night flying Intruder machines were used to attack enemy's airfields at night, while those of the airframes fitted with a radar, were used to defend the night skies over Britain.   Our DB-7 Havoc Mk.I ‘Intruders’ kit set offers three all-black painted Intruder machines fitted with night exhausts and one bomber machine in a special test colour scheme. These machines were used by a couple of British ace pilots to achieve their first victories and were also used by Polish crews. There is one important thing associated with the Havoc exhausts – and that we learned about only after finishing the kit moulding tools. All the reference materials and scale drawings that we had, including those published in 2024, show engine exhaust only on the outboard side of the engine nacelles. While researching the camouflage schemes, it became clear that it is one of the long time repeated errors as the DB-7/Havoc Mk.I airframes did have the exhausts stacks on either side of the nacelles, ie on the outboard as well as on the inboard side. And so, our latest kit contains two pairs of night exhausts as well as two pairs of standard ones and also correction parts for the cowling flaps. The future release kits will already have the nacelle / exhaust area corrected. We are also going to prepare correction set for Azur/Frrom's FR0052 kit.  Read more

RESIN MODEL KITS & SETS

RAF Mechanic with Accumulator Trolley 1/48 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-F48405 1/48 8595593132112    3D-printed figure of an RAF ground crew member with an accu trolley that fits to almost any RAF fighter aeroplane from 1943 to 1950. Read more

3D printed Parts B-25B/C/D/G  Mitchell Entrace Hatch and Ladder (front and rear) / for Ac. Min., Revell, Italeri, Academy Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P48015 1/48 8595593131702    3D-printed air intakes, both the front and rear ones, that are designed to fit B-25 kits produced by Accurate Miniatures or as reboxed by Revell, Italeri and Academy. While the original kit offers the open entrance hatches, the surrounding internal area is left empty. Our set brings much better detailed hatches with steps, but also the entrance frames and interior doors that are completely missing in the kit. Read more

British WWII GP 250lb bomb (2 pcs.) Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P72029 1/72 8595593132099     A pair of British 500 lb bombs from the WW2 period. These bombs are one-part affair made by direct 3D print and offer very nice details. Read more

British WWII MC 500lb bomb Mk.IV (2 pcs.) Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P72030 1/72 8595593132105     A pair of British 500 lb bombs from the WW2 period. These bombs are one-part affair made by direct 3D print and offer very nice details. Read more

RAF Accumulator Trolley 1/72 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P72032 1/72 8595593132129    3D-printed accumulator troley as used by the RAF from the 1930s to late 1950s. Read more

MQM-74A Chukar ‘Target Drone’ 1/72 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P72035 1/72 8595593132228    Finely detailed, 3D-printed model of the Chukar target unmanned aerial vehicle, or a drone, that had been developed in the 1960s. To get to the air, the drone used a tripod launcher structure, either ground or vessel based. This tripod is also portrayed in our kit. The Chukars were used by the US Navy, British Royal Navy, a couple of NATO countries and also by Israeli military. The decal sheet offers you the possibility to build one of as many as six various and colourful schemes.  Read more

M29C Weasel ‘Amphibious Version’ 1/72 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-MV137 1/72 8595593132013    3D-printed model set with etched details and a sheet of decals. This amphibious version of the US-built M29C Weasel tracked transport vehicle was used both in Europe and the Pacific Area during WW2, by American troops and Brits as well. The vehicles were also deployed to Korea and later used by the French in Vietnam. Read more

Hetzer Remote Controlled MG 34 1/48 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P48016 1/48 8595593131993    Remote-controlled MG34 mount that was located on the roof of the Hetzer crew compartment and reduced the crew's vulnerability to enemy troops fire. Superbly detailed 3D printed mount is designed for Tamiya's Hetzer kit. Read more

F-4B Phantom Seat (2 pcs.) 1/48 for Tamiya kit Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P48020 1/48 8595593132068    3D-printed seats with pilot's harness, for Tamiya F-4 kits. Read more

Men`s bicycle - first half of 20th century (2 pcs.) 1/48 Art.no. Scale Barcode 129-P48022 1/48 8595593132181    Bicycle – widely used means of transport in the first half of the 20th century. Used by factory workers, troops, sports men. During WW2, bicycles were also massively used on airbases, both Allied and German as has also recently been shown by the Masters of Air series. Now we have prepared these really highly detailed men’s bikes in the 1/48 scale. One bike with the front wheel staight, the other one has the wheel turned to side so you can posed it as thrown onto the grass. Read more