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Morane-Saulnier MS.406C1 In 1934, the French Armee de l'Air announced a competition for a single-wing fighter with a speed of 450 km/h and armament of one to two 20 mm cannon. The winner of the competition was the Morane Saulnier MS-405C.1. Only 16 of this version were produced, and production switched to a modified version of the MS-406C.1. It was powered by an H-S 12Y.31 engine and was armed with a cannon firing through the ...
Hawker Tempest Mk.V 'Doodle-bug Hunters'. Four very attractive markings. There is a 3D-Printed radar (wing antenna and a cockpit instrument) for Camo A. This will be the very first Tempest kit to offer the 'radar camo'. This aircraft, along with one other, will be decorated with symbols of shot down V-1 rockets.
The kit will be released in September, you can already start pre-ordering it now.
North-American X-15A-2 'White Ablative Coating' Model of a 1960s hypersonic aircraft which, until today, holds the world's speed record for the fastest manned plane. It was also the first aircraft to reach the altitude regarded as the boundary between the earth atmosphere and the outer space. Knowledge gained during the development of the X-15 and the test flights was substantial for the Apollo programme and aero and space res...
Bell AH-1Q Cobra ICM's 1/32 AH-1G Cobra plastic model is now released with the addition of our own new, grey styrene and clear plastic parts. The decal sheet is also new as this release depicts the anti-tank AH-1Q/S version of the Cobra helicopter. The schemes covered are from the service with the US Army, Turkey military and Israel air force. The model kit is released in a limited quantity only.
- in this scale, the Q/S vers...
Fiat G.50bis/G.50bis/N 'Fighter-Bomber & Navy Fighter' The Fiat G.50 fighter was introduced to service with the Regia Aeronautica even before the outbreak of WW2 as the first version of the type had been tested in the late stages of the Spanish civil war. The G.50bis version was a response to earlier Italian fighter types that lacked in their performance compared to modern fighters of their opponents. Some of the Fiat fighters...
RE-RELEASED!!! Yakovlev Yak-3 Normandie Niemen Hi-Tech kit. Three aircraft types seem to have been competing of the imaginary 'best WW2 fighter' title, the Hawker Tempest, P-51D Mustang, which were flying on the Western Front, and the third one is an aircraft of a completely different concept, a light weight, Soviet-built and highly manoeuvrable fighter, the Yak-3. And at least, this one can be called the very best of the East...
Westland Whirlwind FB Mk.I 'Fighter-Bomber' Hi-Tech version.
Not long before the outbreak of WW2, the British Air Ministry issued a requirement calling for two types of fighter aircraft, one light weight with machine gun armament and the other one with heavy cannon armament. To these requirements, the machine gun armed Hurricanes and Spitfires were designed, while to fit the second category, the Westland offered their Whirlwi...
Westland Whirlwind Mk.I In the days leading to the outbreak of the Second World War, the British Air Ministry issued requirements calling for two types of a new fighter aircraft, a lighter one armed just with machine guns and the other one with heavier cannon armament. To this specifications, the Spitfire and Hurricane machine gun fighters were developed. The requirement for the heavier type led to the creation of the twin-eng...
North-American T-2 Buckeye 'Special Markings' T-2 Buckeye 'Anniversary Markings' The T-2 Buckeye jet trainer is no doubt among the very legends of the US naval aviation. Both the US Navy and Marines operated this type for a very long time whilst in Greece, the Buckeye saw service even longer. Besides the standard white and red colour scheme, quite a few US airframes bore much more striking colours. And mostly in 1976 when the ...
North-American T-2 Buckeye MASK. Pre-cut paint masks for both the outside and inside of Special Hobby's T-2 Buckeye clear parts, Comes with masks for the tyres, too. (designed to be used with Special Hobby kits)
Fiat G.50-II in Finnish Service. Finland, like David against Goliath, threatened by Stalin Soviet Union, was purchasing available weapons all over Europe in the years 1938-39. Whole batch of Fiat G.50 fighters was bought in Italy. Despite some troubles with their delivery, the new Fiat fighters made it to Finland just in time to get involved in the Winter War and fought successfully as well as during the Continuation War. As t...
Fiat G.50B Bicomando MASK Pre-cut paint masks designed for the clear parts and undercarriage wheels of the Fiat G.50B Bicomando model. (designed to be used with Special Hobby kits)
Fiat G.50 Freccia MASK Pre-cut paint masks for the clear parts and undercarriage wheels of all single seater versions of Special Hobby's Fiat G.50 Freccia kits. (designed to be used with Special Hobby kits)
Polikarpov I-16 Decals China and Japan. Polikarpov I-16 was one of very successful 1930s monoplane fighters equipped with retractable undercarriage. The production of the first of many subsequent versions had started in 1934. I-16 participated in many conflicts in Europe and Asia since the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War. They were still in use even in 1944 on Eastern Front.
Soviet Union offered it 'volunteers' and...
Fiat G.50B Bicomando The Regia Aeronautica, as well as many other air forces during WW2, used two seat machines converted from standard fighter types for the pilot training purposes. In 1940, the RA faced a difficult task as besides new pilots requiring the pilot training, those many already accustomed to flying in the open cockpit of a biplane needed to learn to fly modern, fast monoplanes with retracting undercarriage. And t...
Bell AH-1G Cobra 'Marines/US Navy' Hi-Tech Kit The high-quality ICM AH-1G Cobra release comes now to you joined by a rather big number of resin parts, etches and parts made by direct (3D-Printed) All these extras makes both the cockpit and exterior of the kit much more busy-looking resulting in a really top-notch release which deserves nothing but the Hi-Tech label. The kit also contains a set of pre-cut masks which is designe...
Bell AH-1G Cobra 'Early Tails over Vietnam Hi-Tech (ICM kit with new resin and PE-parts. The 1/32 ICM AH-1G Cobra is a very nice kit indeed and here we have made it even much more detailed by the addition of extra large number of resin parts, photo-etches and 3D printer-produced parts. All of these turn the ICM kit into a superbly detailed masterpiece which fully deserves the Hi-Tech title. The kit also contains pre-cut painti...
Heinkel He-100D-1 'Propaganda Jager He 113' The Heinkel He 100D was flown in comparative flight tests against the Messerschmitt Bf-109 type in the competition for the standard Luftwaffe fighter. Eventually, the Bf-109 became the winner, but as the He 100D outperformed it in a couple of respects, it also reached the production, albeit giving only a very small batch of airframes. These were later used by German nazi propaganda t...
Bell P-39Q/N/P-400 Airacobra (designed to be used with Special Hobby kits) Pre-cut spray mask designed for all P-39/P-400 Airacobra models as kitted by Special Hobby or the Revel re-releases. Besides standard masks for the clear canopy parts, it also offers masks for the wheel hubs.
Hawker Tempest MK.II/Mk.V/Mk.VI mask wheels and clear parts pre-cut painting mask for the Tempest kit od all versions (designed to be used with Special Hobby and Revell kits)
I.A.R. IAR-81 BoPi In the late 1930s, the Polish PZL P.11 and P.24 all-metal, high wing fighter planes were produced under licence by I.A.R., Industria Aeronautica Romana. As it was quite clear that such type of design was nearing obsolescence and the future belonged to low wing fighters with retractable undercarriage and enclosed canopy, a design team led by Ion Grosu was formed with the aim to project a modern warplane of su...
Fokker D.II "Grunzweig`s Planes" In 1915, Fokker E.I, E.II and E.III monoplanes ruled skies over the Western Front. But their supremacy did not last long, they got obsolete quite soon afterwards and stood no chance against new biplane fighter aeroplanes of the Allies which possessed much better performance. German designers were thus forced to try and find a suitable replacement type quickly. Martin Kreutzer, a Fokker's design...