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News from Special Hobby 11/2024

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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 s
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PLT284 Nippon Kōkūki Kōgyō D-1 Research Glider in 1/72

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The Planet Model range of resin model kits will shortly receive a rather unusual addition in the form of the Nippon Kōkūki Kōgyō D-1 Research Glider. What could one expect under such title? Well this D-1 was a sort of test bed used for in flight trials verifiyng the characteristics of the Ki-54 twin engine aircraft. The kit set will consist of several resin cast parts, injection moulded clear parts taken from our Ki-54 kit and a sheet of decals. And as the real D-1 glider was a one-off thing, the decals cover just this one airframe.
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SH48229 Fiat Br.20 Cicogna ‘Bomber over Two Continents’ in 1/48 - colour profiles

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 The upcoming 1/48 scale SH48229  Fiat Br.20 Cicogna ‘Bomber over Two Continents’ kit is to offer the choice of three various colour schemes, one from Japan, one as flown by the Italian Legionary Air Force in Spain and the final scheme shows machine of the regular Italian military.
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The Return of The Boomerang - SH48241 box contents

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Here comes the already third boxing of the CAC Boomerang model kit. This October release has catalogue number  SH48241  and portrays the CA-19 which was the final production version used mainly for reconnaissance, target spotting and ground attack missions.  
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Leopard Tank Mount with the MG3

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The German Leopard tank has its MG3 placed on the top of the turret on a special mounting. And to replicate such thing in styrene form seems to be rather tricky affair requiring extensive simplifying. And here comes our set   P35033   made via direct 3D print that enables precise detail even in such cases. Designed fot 1/35 scale Tamiya or Revell/ICM kits.
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Anniversary livery on an SF-260in 1/48 as built by Matthias Becker

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 Mr. Mathias Becker of the Jet & Prop Magazine has finished this review build of the  SH48207  kit, and as we all can see now Mathias did it very nicely really. He chose to build it in the anniversary colours as worn by one of the Italian SF-260s. Matthias also used a couple of CMK detailing sets, these were:   4480 , 4481 a 4482 and mask  M48024 . The review article is to be published in one of the recent Jet & Prop issues, the photos are here for you now too. Our very big thank you, Mathias!
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