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The 1/72 Super Mystère kit, a joint project of Special Hobby and Azur/Frrom is currently on the finals and its sprues have already been shown several times both on the web and at some model shows. What has been still kept under the lid however is the extra sprue containing the plentiful offensive ordnance as used during the type's colourful service with the IAF as well as two types of underwing fuel tanks and AAM Sidewinders on special rails as seen on French SMB.2s. The "Israeli" option offers several bombs of various sizes, their pylons (of interest is the very unique quadruple rack), and also an indigenous AAM Shafrir (meaning "Dragonfly") on a special wing root mounted launcher. There are also the 600 and 1300l fuel tanks as well as a pair of napalm tanks.    

Only a couple of days we showed you the 1/72 Super Mystere test shots, now as the test build have already begun, we want to share with you our first impressions and a few in-progress images. Well, so far, the build is quite straightforward and brings no major obstacles save for some flashes around several parts and some undershot areas as well. The fit, once the flash is removed, is pretty good, for example the upper section air intake trunk with the cockpit just snaps to its lower counterpart and the tail fin, which goes as a separate part, attaches to the body in panel lines and fits exceptionally...

It has been a while since we have announced the 1/72 and 1/48 brand new kits of the French Super Mystere jet. Here we are so happy to be able to share with you the very first photos of the 1/72 scale sprue samples we received literally just a few minutes ago. Now we are going to examine the samples thoroughly and begin the rather strenuous and time taking process of debugging the moulding tools and depending on the outcome of this process, it could be possible for the first examples to reach the market later this year.

One of our future new generation (3D modeling/steel molds) Special Hobby models will be Super Mystere in 1/72 scale. We are preparing it in cooperation with our French partner Azur-Fromm. Conception of the model matches our last models of the new generation – Mirage F.1, Gnat, Vampire… All parts of basic kits will be made of plastic.