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  Manuel Leyva sends in these nice images of his latest built, the long-nosed  CASA.212-400  in colours of the Venezuela Navy. Manuel built this model from  SH72489  kit that portrays machines operated in South Africa, Venezuela and Argentina. Our very big thank you to Manuel for the photos.

The C-41A, or the Spanish CASA C-212 transport in US livery and the content of the kit box.

A couple of quite interesting pictures arrived to our mail yesterday showing an exceptionally built Spanish CASA C-212 (using SH72344 kit). The builder, a Spanish modeller known as Buchon Cinco Uno did not use the kit's decal and opted instead to finish his model in a three-colour camouflage scheme as operated by unit ALA37. We gladly admit that these colours suit the CASA rather well…

Vitor Costa, our Portuguese friend has rather expertly finished his second CASA model which wears this eye-catching anniversary livery and we are so very happy and proud to be able to showcase his fabulous model here on our blog. He used our CASA 212 Portuguese Tail Art kit (SH72376)  the model came off as nicely as Vitor's first one (see here)

   Just in time to be showcased at the Nuremberg Fair, Martin Pfeifer built for us Special Hobby's 1/72 CASA C-212-100 model in Spanish guise (model #SH72344 ). And, as we have already mentioned in one of the previous SH blog instalments, our Portuguese customer, Ms.Lidia Lasco of JGT Modelismo in Lisboa brought us another built CASA model, this time wearing Portuguese markings (limited release kit #SH72376 ). Let's take a closer look at both of them in the photos below.   We would be very happy to be able to mention the name of the modeller who have built the Portuguese CASA for us, unfortunately we cannot. Besides the CASA, he also made a very nice pad for his model, in a form of a runway tarmac section and his name was given on a nameplate in the corner of the pad. What is most terrible, the pad was stolen from our transport box (the model itself was in another box and was saved, thanks for that at least).    In case the clearly highly ...