Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Jeffry Fontaine on March 05, 2012, 10:28:23 PM
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Special Hobby (https://www.specialhobby.eu/) comprises several brand names including CMK, MPM, and Azur in addition to Special Hobby brand of limited run injection molded multi-media model kits.
Modellversium.de (http://www.modellversium.de/) has shared an in-box kit review of the Special Hobby 1/48th scale X-15A-2 (kit number 48008) (http://) today with images of the kit contents that includes resin in addition to injection molded polystyrene.
Click on html or image to view article
(http://www.modellversium.de/kit/bilder/7/9/1/8791-deckel.jpg) (http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=8791)
(Image source: Roland Kunze via Modellversium)
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1/48 He-115! :-*
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1/48 He-115! :-*
Where? When? Do you have confirmation?
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Never mind...frantic searching found this:
(http://www.cmkkits.com/res/data/145/016613.jpg)
WooHoo!!!!
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(http://www.modelforum.cz/download/file.php?id=794336&mode=view)
(http://www.modelforum.cz/download/file.php?id=788908&mode=view)
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([url]http://www.modelforum.cz/download/file.php?id=794336&mode=view[/url])
And available In The One True Scale to boot.
My Xmas money is going fast.
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And available In The One True Scale to boot.
No. Unfortunately it is 1/72...
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And available In The One True Scale to boot.
No. Unfortunately it is 1/72...
What took you so long Greg? :P
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Was dozing... :-[
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Was dozing... :-[
Is it 12:35 PM? Early afternoon nap?
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Not even - it is just after 1130 here. I was up at 0300 though...
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Due out sometime in the near future is a Me 163C, in two boxings, if I read the notice right.
http://www.hyperscale.com/2013/reviews/kits/sh72258preview_1.htm (http://www.hyperscale.com/2013/reviews/kits/sh72258preview_1.htm)
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Woohoo!! 1/48 He115 is finally available. Just ordered mine.
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Folks:
Rob Stevens over at West Coast Hobbys in beautiful Port Alberni, BC, is selling the SH72095 B-18 Bolo for $20.00 CDN. There is another ~20% off for the US folks via the currency exchange. I just bought 2.
(http://www.westcoasthobbys.com/sites/default/files/SH72095_B-18.JPG)
Rob says:
I have a more of these in inventory than I want if anyone drools on your kits, tell them to send me a note “Carl Sent Me” and I’ll do the same deal .. Cheers Rob
Website:http://www.westcoasthobbys.com/
Email: sales@westcoasthobbys.com
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New kits:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/29730-1-1_72_supermarine_spitfire_mk_21_contraprop_zpsfnwmtwv7.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/29687-1-1_48_saab_aj_37_viggen_attack_version__zpsddmejhdk.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/29202-1-1_48_fairey_firefly_as_mk_7_antisubmarine_version_zpse324ityc.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/29203-1-1_48_fairey_firefly_u_8_drone_version__zpstkkfdp5z.jpg)
Loving the look of those Fireflies...
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Is that Firefly U8 a whif ???
According to the official FAA website the U8s were converted AS Mk4s - I doubt they'd change the engine or back-seater's areas. U9s were ex-AS Mk5s.
Think "Shackfly" would be a better name for post-WW2 versions.
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Is that Firefly U8 a whif ???
According to the official FAA website the U8s were converted AS Mk4s - I doubt they'd change the engine or back-seater's areas. U9s were ex-AS Mk5s.
I have seen references (such as "Fairey Aircraft since 1915" by H.A. Taylor) that the U.8 was a conversion of the A.S.7/T.7. This is what is represented with this kit I believe.
Also see photo below:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Fairey_Firefly_U8_WM890_Ringway_30.03.55_edited-2.jpg)
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If you really want to freak people out, try putting the late model Firefly nose on a Spitfire or Seafire...
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If you really want to freak people out, try putting the late model Firefly nose on a Spitfire or Seafire...
Tried it --- nacelle is too big for a Spit ---- F-82 is another thing ;) (nearside nacelle in this pic below) The nacelle happens to fit a Tempest quite well though, or the Martin Baker MB5 ---
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It would appear that the U8s were AS.4s with the new engine, tall fin & bubble over the rear cockpit.
The U-9 Drones were standard ex-AS.5s - only external mods were the small wingtip pods.
If putting that bearded engine on a Spitty you would need to enlarge the fin too .... but what Mark of Spit would you start with ??, surely not a Mk.Vb.
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If putting that bearded engine on a Spitty you would need to enlarge the fin too .... but what Mark of Spit would you start with ??, surely not a Mk.Vb.
If you have an old Frog[spawn] Shackleton, you could try the match-up but it doesn't fit very well (already tried that too). I would use a Mk.21 or 22 or even a Spiteful, then you could just use some Attacker wings (no radiators on them) ----- the problem with using a Spitfire is it's just too small an airframe, for instance, compare a Sea Fury with a Spitfire and see what difference there is, then have a look at this pic, the engine/cowling package on the Firefly is the same power egg
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It would appear that the U8s were AS.4s with the new engine, tall fin & bubble over the rear cockpit.
Errr...no. The more I look into this, it does appear that the U.8s were converted AS.7s. And in fact, multiple sources confirm that 34 Mark 7s were actually built new as U8s.
The distinguishing features being the radiator (moved from wing to chin), canopies and tail, all of which are identical to the AS.7. It would make absolutely no sense to retrofit the AS.4/5 so intensively for use as a target.
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Hunter and Killer Guardians in 1/48th:
(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/SH48135.jpg)
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48135 (http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48135)
(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/SH48158.jpg)
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48158 (http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48158)
Early HueyCobra with the Vulcan cannon:
(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/SH72076.jpg)
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72076 (http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72076)
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More coming:
Fairey Fulmar Mk.I/II Hi-Tech version 1/48:
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/461e804374300f68e1e22db76/images/04793556-9b82-4eb4-8540-d601f7230aef.jpg)
Folland Gnat F. Mk.I "Finnish and Yugoslav Service" 1/72:
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/461e804374300f68e1e22db76/images/b6deda43-bce5-4584-8003-cf89bdf9a35b.jpg)
Fouga CM-175 Zéphyr 1/72:
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/461e804374300f68e1e22db76/images/c0ad272f-b451-4477-8f8f-6d54b43c7e42.jpg)
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A 1/72nd Gnat Mk.1? Really? Be still my beating heart...... :-* :-* :-*
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Finally, a Gnat F.1! About time...
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Need, need, need, need, neeeeeeeeeeeedddddddd that Gnat!
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New ones for you 1/72
weirdos aficionados:
(http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/photos/news/19800/29805-1-1_72_n-3pb_no_330_norwegian_squadron.jpg)
(http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/photos/news/19800/29806-1-1_72_n-3pb_little_norway_service_.jpg)
(http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/photos/news/19800/29804-1-1_72_caproni_ca_311_foreign_service.jpg)
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Personally though, I am looking forward to this pair:
1/48 IMAM (Romeo) Ro.43 “Red Striped”:
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/461e804374300f68e1e22db76/images/72be79cc-dfac-4b02-b4b8-23b7cd6a5c26.jpg)
1/48 IMAM (Romeo) Ro.44 “Italian Float Fighter”:
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/461e804374300f68e1e22db76/images/5802c7d5-9ef5-4567-b799-cab35e589d91.jpg)
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Coming soon:
1/48 Fairey Fulmar Mk.I/II Hi-Tech version:
(http://www.aeromodel.eu/out/pictures/z1/29749-1-1_48_fairey_fulmar_mk_i_ii_hi-tech_version.jpg)
1/48 L-39C Albatros:
(http://www.aeromodel.eu/out/pictures/z1/30138-1-1_48_l-39c_albatros.jpg)
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Latest email special from Rob Stevens @ West Coast Hobbys:
We have Special Hobby kits SH48158 and SH48135 Grumman Guardians on sale @ $39.00 Canadian until Sunday Oct 25th. These kits WILL NOT be going to the SALE section of the site at that time.
For our US subscribers, the kits make a fixed rate postage of $16.23 anywhere in the US. Remember, a request for quote dosen't cost you anything ! .. A nice kit but BIG and takes up a lot of much needed shelf space for new issues. Good deal for the US members.
Cheers Rob
sales@westcoasthobbys.com
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The Special Hobby October newsletter has just been published.
It is available here (http://www.specialhobby.info/2016/09/special-hobby-newsletter-october-2016.html).
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(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aCI5HfvaATc/WHNQjgHY_eI/AAAAAAAAIPg/LwK_LbSAy6QZdugh-49yWDfpv5W-yYWYQCLcB/s1600/PLT%2B264%2BJ-22%2Bprelep.jpg)
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(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aCI5HfvaATc/WHNQjgHY_eI/AAAAAAAAIPg/LwK_LbSAy6QZdugh-49yWDfpv5W-yYWYQCLcB/s1600/PLT%2B264%2BJ-22%2Bprelep.jpg)
Bastards, trying not to buy kits being as we're 'retired'. 💀
:-X
Started to scratchbuild one over thirty years ago from the
Karlstrom drawings, never got much beyond templates and
roughed out fuselage.
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Styrene & I'd be interested. :)
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I still have my 1/48 Kora version:
(http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/18846/Kora_J-22A_Boxtop.jpg)
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Does anyone know if their various Spitfire Mk.21 kits include both the five-bladed prop and the three-bladed contra-props? The art for the various boxings seem to show one or the other and I was interested in knowing if both were on the trees in all the boxings.
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Does anyone know if their various Spitfire Mk.21 kits include both the five-bladed prop and the three-bladed contra-props? The art for the various boxings seem to show one or the other and I was interested in knowing if both were on the trees in all the boxings.
Which manufacturer are you asking about. Special Hobby's Spitfire Mk.21 has both props in it:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ci3u3Yv5tZc/VTcnE-r3kzI/AAAAAAAAdGc/WGeXBS3J_ps/s1600/_MG_9591.JPG)
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I was asking specifically about Special Hobby's various Spitfire Mk.21 kits; some box art has five-bladed props and other art has three-bladed contra-props. Good to know the kit has both.
Thank you.
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SH is great for extra bits. Their 1/72 Seafire MK.46 come with two fuselages. And the same sprue Rick just posted. The MK.47 has only one fuselage.
(http://www.model-making.eu/zdjecia/2/4/5/2643_1_SPH72231_1.jpg)
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Does anyone know if their various Spitfire Mk.21 kits include both the five-bladed prop and the three-bladed contra-props? The art for the various boxings seem to show one or the other and I was interested in knowing if both were on the trees in all the boxings.
Evan
Just got my box out ( the 91 Sqd in WWII boxing) to confirm and the answer is "yes they do". You get 5 blades + spinner etc for the options in the box and then 6 blades + spinner etc as unused parts.
Chris
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1/48 IMAN Ro.37
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/24837/sh1.jpg)
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Here is the HAL Ajeet (SH72370), which will come out this November. Its the Indian licenced version of the British fighter Folland Gnat.
The boxart was painted by Standa Hájek
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21150175_1508684719226387_6673247436404954226_n.jpg?oh=be9fe2e6c0c976cce8799d70b4319d8b&oe=5A1D425D)
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I built the standard version of the Gnat and it's a superb kit. Fit is up there with the best of the manufacturers. Definitely SH's best so far.
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Special Hobby/Tarangus co-production: 1/72 SAAB Viggen.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1547186868709505.1073741850.256992114395660&type=1&l=d0b368b86f (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1547186868709505.1073741850.256992114395660&type=1&l=d0b368b86f)
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Coming soon. January 2018. There will two boxings.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjPNB_YsFVo/WgZUepzIioI/AAAAAAAAhKo/enus1zMA1I4k7fFMOdIygL7Kc8HJX3KIwCLcBGAs/s640/SH72297%2BFH-1%2BPhantom.jpg)
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Decal sheet for SH72297.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i5d8sk4I5wI/WnBYMuXVoxI/AAAAAAAAi5g/vRdTcXIByPcX8g6GrgT59JfTErZ2OMSxQCLcBGAs/s640/SH72297%2Bboko.jpg)
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Just in time for Allies '46!
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Yay!
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The droptank (or whatever that is under the fuselage) looks like it could be the intake for an engine. Stupid spot due to FOD issues, but some German toilet paper designs had a belly intake.
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As does the F-16 8)
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1/48 this year:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Ce0_Sz_2lk/WpbJB18farI/AAAAAAAAOg0/BIRZXC-KQAobC6ZnE9hERzkPN9Tcn4ewwCLcBGAs/s1600/SH48150_SK-37%2BViggen%2BTrainer.jpg)
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(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/29107/001.jpg)
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1/32 Fieseler Fi-103R / V-1 Reichenberg (expected for release in December 2018)
(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/SH32074.jpg?t=1539971364)
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH32074 (https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH32074)
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A re-boxing of the Azure Models Loire 130Cl:
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/30285/001.jpg)
Still, its a 1930s flying boat so... :-*
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Decal options:
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44668912_1986685371426317_5490867584855179264_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=088d5b04f3327edd8535da515cdf9ab2&oe=5C3C607F)
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44733958_1986685438092977_1072294467265888256_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=f243cdf03b0edcede3f74d764e134a8e&oe=5C8A88AF)
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44639251_1986685381426316_808927076970135552_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=b08a6d139de59613ef697ac17b46fc8b&oe=5C81EE85)
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44733937_1986685451426309_1078908291699965952_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=67c7a9dd021e3155f90f2d74ba5b09ca&oe=5C4D522A)
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I'm thinking of one somewhere in Asia - maybe Vietnam, post war in North Vietnamese markings.
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(https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://scontent-nrt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/45060176_1997979633630224_7161246298312540160_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109%26efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9%26_nc_ht=scontent-nrt1-1.xx%26oh=e94201925a61594b1146046c1279854e%26oe=5C79A3A4&key=36e168137e32001d2874f32dd49fc697e81a47045d4bde1f086107a6e8110801)
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Coming in May 2019. The Family Viggen.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4fc17s7pt8/W9x9M9rrW8I/AAAAAAAAoz4/4ldt-bE4QNw0SG2nGfUCViDUNPqu80WcACLcBGAs/s1600/45268858_2004252309669623_5988854521541951488_o.jpg)
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(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P1g8BlY2Dfk/W9h12HwVS-I/AAAAAAAASfg/rHBfUw9EU_QJRu1o02FCa4sr-ejz47qZgCLcBGAs/s1600/SH72397%2BBreda%2BBa.88B%2BLince.jpg)
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SXwJfgYr9ZQ/W9h124dGO5I/AAAAAAAASfk/AiYWhTFhaA4QpMEBWj1FEucLfCUgbJLZACLcBGAs/s1600/SH72400%2BVickers%2BType%2B267%2BVildebeest%2BMk.III.jpg)
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1/72 SH72230 B-18B Bolo 'ASW' - new for January 2019
(https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46856084_2039616536133200_6857661701840437248_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=98d9a7fad3c79e086c015da6e7512ff0&oe=5C7467D0)
It's the real "ugly" deal.
(http://263i3m2dw9nnf6zqv39ktpr1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bolo-Mad-960_640.jpg)
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Hmm! that looks interesting, I've got a vacuform Bolo in the stash too ---- gives me some ideas what to do with it.
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Mutter, grumble...wish it was in 1/48...mutter, grumble...
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Nice duo for the 1/72 crowd:
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/32050/115.jpg)
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Also note this:
(https://storage.googleapis.com/specialhobby6914/banner_moson_2019_EN_online%20sleva-1.jpg) (https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/vystava/?force_sid=cvkafolhpedm6h2d4de71l6fj3)
Click on image to see details.
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(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/SH72402.jpg?t=1568657019)
Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72402 (https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72402)
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That will please Neil Gaunt of Aircraft in Miniature ---- not!
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Nice, I hope that means we are going to see an affordable 235 and 295 from them now?
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(https://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/photos/news/34148/001.jpg)
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(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/34243/001.jpg)
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(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/34303/001.jpg)
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Hmmm...anyone else thinking what I am thinking: take the Swedish Flygvapnet markings and scheme from the J-20/Re 2000 variant and put them on the Re.2005. After all, Sweden did have access to DB605s...
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Hmmm...anyone else thinking what I am thinking: take the Swedish Flygvapnet markings and scheme from the J-20/Re 2000 variant and put them on the Re.2005. After all, Sweden did have access to DB605s...
I like the way you think. I wonder what they would do when DB605s no longer were available? A Merlin installation or a Griffon?
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Well, it could follow the Fiat G.55/G.59 path with something like the Merlin...but that's a whole other whiff. ;)
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Well, it could follow the Fiat G.55/G.59 path with something like the Merlin...but that's a whole other whiff. ;)
Something of a double-whiff then? That's very, very tempting.
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(https://scontent.fbne6-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/82179416_835931013513927_1818560724461420544_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ohc=z1_qz3IryDEAX8470z6&_nc_ht=scontent.fbne6-1.fna&_nc_tp=1002&oh=7e0fd13bf9a33f070322de0b2a8f4278&oe=5E8EF855)
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(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-02/07/283-entry-0-1612693468.jpg)
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For the '72ers out there:
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-08/10/1133-entry-0-1628624111.jpg)
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(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-02/07/283-entry-0-1612693468.jpg)
Might have to get this one, part of my 'absolute favorite aircraft in 1/48' collection.
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For the '72ers out there:
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-08/10/1133-entry-0-1628624111.jpg)
In US or Canadian colours and with a pair of AIM-4 Falcons per wing. :smiley:
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For the '72ers out there:
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-08/10/1133-entry-0-1628624111.jpg)
In US or Canadian colours and with a pair of AIM-4 Falcons per wing. :smiley:
I second that!
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I seem to have missed the announcement of a 1/48 AH-1G by Special Hobby:
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2021-10/14/1405-entry-0-1634203902.jpg)
I'm interested.
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Special Hobby announced a 1/72nd Bugatti-De Monge 100P racer kit (SH72457 (https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72457)) at Nuremberg last year, apologies if it's been mentioned before, but what's new is some CAD images aaaaaaand I need at least one of these, please:
(https://i.ibb.co/KNbXtL6/SH72457-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rbFmBck)
(https://i.ibb.co/kcHZKnv/SH72457.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BszkLDF)
(https://i.ibb.co/Ks5KPGb/SH72457-3.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HPKhS2B)
(https://i.ibb.co/PC0cY96/SH72457-4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7yLnzR1)
(https://i.ibb.co/xXCYbVT/SH72457-7.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TYv1Gz3)
If I'm honest I'm kinda concerned the spinner's shown as one part given it's a contraprop...
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If I'm honest I'm kinda concerned the spinner's shown as one part given it's a contraprop...
Indeed! Perhaps they based their artwork on the replica as a work-in-progress?
On the real deal, that gap between spinner sections is pretty noticeable too. Also, on the preserved example, the front spinner isn't pointed ... the tip is clipped off for a cooling opening.
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Someone on Britmodeller suggested SH has used the replica - which literally crashed and burned five years ago - as the basis for this kit rather than the extant original, which makes very little sense to me.
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OFFS it's a CAD render, it doesn't mean a damned thing. Renders are created from the engineering
model datasets and what the render shows is determined by which models you choose to show or
hide.
:-X
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Dare I refer to: https://youtu.be/m3dZl3yfGpc
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Dare I refer to: https://youtu.be/m3dZl3yfGpc
*standing ovation*
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Box art:
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJvQx19Z/SH72457-Bugatti-100-P.jpg)
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Such box art 8)
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I can't wait!!
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Special Hobby have released comprehensive set in their CMK range to convert Airfix's 1:72 Beaufighter into the Merlin-engined Mk.II. Set #7489. Price is 26 Euros.
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2022-02/11/1819-entry-0-1644616179.jpg)
(https://aeroscale.net/upload/media/entries/2022-02/11/1819-entry-2-1644616179.jpg)
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Seeing that makes me wonder what a Beaufighter would look like with R/R Griffons. For that matter, how about the same treatment for a Mosquito?
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Seeing that makes me wonder what a Beaufighter would look like with R/R Griffons
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/bristol-beaufighter-with-griffon-engines.55914/ ;)
cheers,
Robin.
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Seeing that makes me wonder what a Beaufighter would look like with R/R Griffons
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/bristol-beaufighter-with-griffon-engines.55914/ ;)
cheers,
Robin.
I've been working out what I can do for that, may use a Firefly Mk.I cowling. I've read that the Beaufighter had a yaw problem which was amplified when Merlins were installed. Can't think what the Griffons would have done to it ----
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Seeing that makes me wonder what a Beaufighter would look like with R/R Griffons
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/bristol-beaufighter-with-griffon-engines.55914/ ;)
cheers,
Robin.
I've been working out what I can do for that, may use a Firefly Mk.I cowling. I've read that the Beaufighter had a yaw problem which was amplified when Merlins were installed. Can't think what the Griffons would have done to it ----
@Robert - I was imagining the Griffons with the contra-rotating propellers as used on the Shackleton. Perhaps that would also take care of the yaw issues?
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Seeing that makes me wonder what a Beaufighter would look like with R/R Griffons
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/bristol-beaufighter-with-griffon-engines.55914/ ;)
cheers,
Robin.
I've been working out what I can do for that, may use a Firefly Mk.I cowling. I've read that the Beaufighter had a yaw problem which was amplified when Merlins were installed. Can't think what the Griffons would have done to it ----
@Robert - I was imagining the Griffons with the contra-rotating propellers as used on the Shackleton. Perhaps that would also take care of the yaw issues?
I was thinking along the same lines Jeff, but also maybe twin tails and a slightly lengthened rear fuselage too ----
Unfortunately, there's not too many photos of the prototype, the one Robin posted and the one I did being about it. What I've read is that Bristol trialed two different cowlings at the same time as you can see in the pic Robin posted, the port one is interesting though. It looks like the exhaust was covered and channeled over the top of the wing.
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From the thread I linked to . . . ;)
'Paraphrased from “Hucknall — the Rolls-Royce Flight Test Establishment” by David Birch page 132:The right engine had typical ejector exhaust stacks. The left engine had six-into-one exhaust manifolds hidden beneath the cowling and routed to exit above the wing. The manifolds were cooled by air that had passed through the radiator. When the radiator side exits were closed, the only air exit would be that around the manifolds above the wing. The configuration was intended to improved streamlining and provide flame dampening. However, the exhaust manifolds were not structurally reliable and frequent repairs were needed.'
cheers,
Robin.
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So I surmised right then --- thanks Robin. Serves me right for just looking at the pretty picture then ;) ;) ;)
I think there might have been another reason too, the cockpit is directly exposed to the open exhaust stubs on the right nacelle, I'd imaging the pilot would be totally deaf after a short flight like that.
EDIT: I tried to print the drawings on that link, virtually impossible to read the text.
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Could have fun going with civilian color schemes on this one.
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1/48 SH48205 Reggiane Re.2000GA / Serie III. model.
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CFBV
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Via the latest SH Newsletter.
Dear customers,
We would like to inform you that we have restocked the following long unavailable kits: SH48114 (https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/1/1/167f-glenn-over-french-1940-45.html)167F "Glenn over France 1940/45" 1/48, SH48116 (https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/1/1/seafire-mk-xv-far-east-service.html)Seafire Mk.XV "Far East Service" 1/48, 100-SH48125 (https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/1/1/seafire-mk-15-aeronavle-service.html) Seafire Mk.15 "Aeronavale Service" 1/48 and 100-SH72250 (https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/1/1/n-3pb-no-330-norwegian-squadron.html) N-3PB "No. 330 (Norwegian) Squadron.
Exclusively on our website you will also find our new simple set SS022 SG-38 1/48 (simple sets come in a polybag, with just the instructions and no decals) and the A091+ Caudron C.714C.1 1/32. This kit contains not only the Finnish decals but also the Camouflage and Decals Caudron C.714; Morane Ms.406;Curtiss Hawk H75A book published by MMP, with 1/32 decals for the listed planes in French colours. Please note that we have limited stock of both SS022 and A091+.
Special Hobby team.
https://www.specialhobby.eu/ (https://www.specialhobby.eu/)
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1/48 Bugatti 100 Racer injected kit:
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That expensive resin investment took a little longer than normal to trigger the styrene...and yes, you are welcome.
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BEAUTIFUL aircraft but 1/48th is still too small for this one.
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That expensive resin investment took a little longer than normal to trigger the styrene...and yes, you are welcome.
As someone who may have this coming to them: THANK YOU GREG!!! :-*
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Quiet you!
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A 1/72 F-84F Thunderstreak from a new tool! 8)
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LINK! (https://www.specialhobby.info/2023/04/very-first-2023-surprise-for-you-from.html?m=1) (including a lot more pictures)
Looking forward to it. Their recent 1/72 Mirage III is a joy to build.
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That is a subject that has been long overdue to be offered in 1/48th scale. Not that I am going to rush out and acquire a quartet of the things but yeah, for as much action as the real aircraft had in IDF service you would have expected to see something in 1/48th scale long before this. Now if Special Hobby would only consider a 1/48th scale North American AJ Savage, after all they did step up and give us all the flavours of the Grumman AF Guardian in 1/48th scale...