Special Hobby News Nov 2024

CAC Wirraway ‘In training and combat’ 1/48
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

AH-1G Cobra ‘Marines/US Navy’ 1/48
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.

DB-7 Havoc Mk.I ‘Intruders’ 1/72
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.

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