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1:48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII The Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII was a less widespread version of this famous fighter mainly due to the low amount of aircraft produced. Nevertheless, for the Supermarine Spitfire development it is one of the most important versions. It was the first Griffon powered production version. The production had started in October 1942 when some of the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX (originally Mk.V) and Mk.VIII... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 9
1:48 Supermarine Seafire F Mk.XV Far East Service' The kit contains three sprues with grey plastic parts, one sprue with clear parts, decals and photo-etched parts. The included plastic parts will allow building either version equipped with 'A' hook or with later 'Stinger' arrestor hook. The fuselage features both finely engraved panel lines and over plating Decals included offer four machines with later arrestor hook
version. The... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 10
1:48 Vought V-173 Flying Pancake/Flapjack. One of the most interesting designs of the World War II came from significant U.S. designer Charles H. Zimmerman. The machines were manufactured by Vought Company for which Zimmerman worked. His V-173 'Flying Pancake' served for testing of the Navy F5U-1 fighter design concept. As the tests revealed, this unorthodox machine had very good flying characteristics. Moreover, this machine posse... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.60 5
1:48 RE-RELEASED!!! North-American F-86K Sabre 'NATO ALL Weather Fighter' There are three main sprues of grey plastic in this model plus a frame of clear parts, resin parts and a set of photo-etched parts. The decal sheet contains markings for three natural-metal machines, the Italian and Dutch ones have squadron badges on their tails. Most colourful is the Norwegian plane, adorned with a shark mouth and a sketch of a dog named Lai... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £33.99 10+
1:48 Supermarine Seafire Mk.XV 'Aeronavale Service' France. The plastic and photo-etched parts are the same as SH48116 but as the name says the decals are different Decals included offer three machines with earlier "A" arrestor hook version. All machines feature newer version of British naval camouflage. The combination of this camouflage and French national insignias creates fancy, colorful machines. Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 7
1:48 Fairey Firefly AS Mk.7 "Anti-submarine version" The model consists of six sprues with grey plastic parts, one sprue of clear parts, you can find there also a optional vac-formed bulged canopy of the operators cockpit, undercarriage bay resin parts, exhausts and air intakes. The decals come with four options, all of them in post-war RN camouflage scheme. The machines depicted there are in fact only three, but one of them is in ... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.60 6
1:48 IMAM (Romeo) Ro.43 "Red Striped" This kit of two seat reconnaissance floatplane contains five sprues with grey plastic parts, one sprue with clear parts, highly detailed resin and photo-etched parts. Decals included offer two overall aluminum dope treated machines with two different types of red ID stripes on the upper wing surface. The decals were printed by Italian Cartograf Company. (Special Hobby sold out March 2026) Aircraft kits (injection) Limited Availability £35.60 3
1:48 DFS SG-38 Czech Polish and DDR marking. Following the 1/72 scale model, its bigger brother in 1/48 scale is now also available and we would like to accentuate that the kit benefits from excellent detail throughout. It is also injected within steel moulds and can be built with a fuselage nacelle or with just the basic fuselage framework exposed. The decal options offered are for three Czechoslovak machines, a Polish one and the... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £14.20 0
1:48 IMAM (Romeo) Ro.44 Italian Float Fighter This kit of fighter version of Ro.44 contains same plastic parts as the previous, differing in just in the fuselage parts, of course in this case of single seater version. Completely new are the clear parts, the resin and photo-etched parts are slightly different. Completely new are the decals, in this case offering two machines treated in overall aluminum dope. The first machine sports... Aircraft kits (injection) Limited Availability £35.60 3
1:48 DFS SG-38 German and Slovak service The same set of sprues is present in the second boxing and its decal sheet offers markings of the type's biggest user, Nazi Germany. To make the choice more colourful, there are also three Slovak machines one of which also flew in the post-war era. (Special Hobby sold out June 2025) Aircraft kits (injection) Limited Availability £14.20 4
1:48 Heinkel He-115 Scandinavian Service. The German Heinkel He-115 floatplane won because of its performance the German Navy competition for a torpedo-carrying floatplane. It also set several records in its category in the pre-war times, and also because of this successes, foreign customers became interested in the plane. Sweden and Norway bought the Heinkel floatplanes before the war. While the Swedish machines were to have rathe... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £61.40 1
1:48 Fairey Firefly FR Mk.I Foreign Post War Service. FAA was the sole user Fairey Fireflies during the World War 2. Soon after the fighting ceased it became a important export commodity. Fireflies were used by Royal Canadian Navy, major user was Netherlands Naval Aviation Service. Dutch Fireflies operated both from homeland bases as so from overseas, mainly in Dutch East India. Fireflies also strengthened Imperial Etiopean Air For... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.60 7
1:48 RE-RELEASED!!! Grumman AF-2W Guardian "Submarine Hunter'. Hunter version of the Guardian model consists of seven plastic sprues, clear injected parts, resin and PE-parts. The decals provide markings for two machines, the first serving aboard USS Bairoko, the other flew from USS Badoeng Strait. During the 1950s, AF-2 Guardian anti submarine aircraft were operating from the decks of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in Hunter Killer p... Aircraft kits (injection) New Arrivals £38.20 10+
1:48 Martin Baltimore Mk.I/II 'First Version in Combat' Before the outbreak of World War II, the Martin company took part in a competition announced by the USAAF for a new modern attack aircraft. The competition was won by Douglas with its DB-7 (later A-20 Havoc/Boston) and North American with the NA-40 (developed into the B-25 Mitchell). Martin played the role of third in the rear. Although the USAAF was not interested in its 167/... Aircraft kits (injection) New Arrivals £67.50 10+
1:48 Fairey Firefly U.8 "Drone version" The AS Mk.7 anti-submarine version was soon replaced with anti-sub Avengers and later also with Gannets. As the Fireflies were still quite new machines, they found their new role as remotely controlled aircraft that served as targets for the new Royal Navy anti-aircraft missiles. The rebuilt machines also got a striking anti-camouflage scheme and were used mainly at Llanbedr base in Wales. Th... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.60 10+
1:48 Re-released! Aero L-39C Albatros The Czechoslovak L-39 Albatros jet aircraft was a standard training machine of the Warsaw Pact and was also exported to many developing countries of the third world. When the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block had collapsed, the plane went on being used and it continues doing so until these days, interestingly also in new NATO member countries. The avionics of the machines used in the Czech Rep... Aircraft kits (injection) Future Releases £31.50 0
1:48 Bucker Bu-181B / Sk 25 Bestmann. The Bucker Bu 181 Bestmann was chosen in 1939 as the standard Luftwaffe trainer aircraft. It saw service as a trainer throughout the war and at its end the type also saw combat use as a light bomber or tank-busting aircraft. Due to this and also to Swedish license and post-war Czechoslovak and Egyptian production, the type achieved considerable expansion and fame. Most Buckers flew well into th... Aircraft kits (injection) New Arrivals £19.50 10+
1:48 IMAM (Romeo) Ro.37 "A30 engine" In the early 1930s, the Italian Regia Aeronautica operated IMAM Ro.1 (licence-built Fokker C.V) reconnaissance and observation biplanes. The military were quite happy with the type, however when IMAM offered a new biplane type designed by Giovanni Galasso, the decision was taken to acquire this new aircraft. Following the prototype's successful test flights, the production was commenced in 1934.... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.60 4
1:48 Saab AJ-37 'Viggen' "Show Must Go On" The Saab AJ-37 'Viggen' was an aircraft ahead of its time. Its designers used an unorthodox construction which enabled the plane to meet all requirements which had been laid on it and in some parameters even surpass them. The Swedish Air Force ordered several various versions of the 'Viggen' jet fighter.
The very first version in service was the AJ-37 attack-fighter, later upgraded to ... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £61.40 2
1:48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII against V-1 Flying Bomb a pair of models, the British Spitfire Mk.XII fighter and the German flying bomb V-1 the stand enables you to portray this pair "in-flight", a Spitfire tipping the missile with its wing four marking options of the Spitfire, three various of the V-1 Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £30.80 7
1:48 Grumman AF-3S Guardian During the 1950s, the AF-2 Guardian anti-submarine aircraft were operating from the U.S. Navy carriers in so-called Hunter-Killer pairs which consisted of one machine of the AF-2W version performing the Hunter role using its volumous, belly-mounted AP-20 search and early-warning radar to locate enemy's submarines while the other member of the team was an AF-2S which was the Killer, carrying a variety of ... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £40.30 7
1:48 NEARLY GOOD AS NEW!!! Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VC 'Overseas Jockeys' The Supermarine Spitfire definitely belongs among the most famous warplanes of the Second World War, and the Spitfire Mk.V version was produced in the largest numbers. The Mk.Vc subversion was equipped with a strenghtened wing enabling the machine to carry various cannon / machine gun configuration and bombs beneath the wing too. The ongoing production brought... Aircraft kits (injection) Second Hand £23.98 1
1:48 Aero C-3A 'Czechoslovakian Transport and Trainer Plane' Model kit of the German Siebel Si 204D training and transport aeroplane, this time in its post-war, Czechoslovak-built variety known as the Aero C.3A. The kit contains nine grey styrene sprues, a single clear parts sprue, full colour instruction manual and a sheet of decals which brings markings for four machines of the Czechoslovak Air Force.
Superbly detailed model, ... Aircraft kits (injection) Limited Availability £47.25 6
1:48 SNCAC NC.701 Martinet The German Siebel Si 204 was developed just before the Second World War as a modern transport aircraft. The outbreak of the war meant change in the type's purpose and it began to fly for the Luftwaffe as a trainer. This variety of the Siebel was also produced in oddupied countries, in Czechoslovakia and in France. And in both these countries, the production went on also after the war had ended. The French... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £54.50 10+
1:48 Bell AH-1G Cobra 'Spanish & IDF/AF Cobras' The AH-1G Cobra was the very first helicopter primarily developed for anti ground missions. AH-1G Cobras saw their combat premiere in Vietnam in 1967. The early machines can be recognized by the tail with port-side mounted tail rotor, later ones had the usual configuration of the tail rotor on the starboard side. The AH-1G became the first member of a really wide family of ground atta... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £35.99 4
1:48 Reggiane Re.2000 Serie I Italy
- Italian WW2 fighter aircraft
- the model consists of four styrene sprues and one clear plastic sprue. The wing parts originate in the Classic Airframes kit, all the others are made new. Small parts come from metal moulds.
- three eye-catching colour schemes Italian mottled camouflages (Special Hobby sold out July 2026) Aircraft kits (injection) Limited Availability £23.60 3
1:48 SIAI-Marchetti SF-260AM/M/V. The SF-260 is an Italian training, sports and aerobatic aeroplane that is flown almost all over the world. In Europe alone, it can be found in service with the air forces of Italy and Belgium, it was also used by the Irish Air Corps. Special Hobby already have on offer 1/72 scale reproduction of the SF-260, now we are releasing also its cousin upscaled to 1/48. The kit set comes on four styrene spr... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 10+
1:48 J-20/Heja I 'Reggiane' 2000 Export Birds' This boxing covers the Re 2000 Italian WW2 fighter wearing colours of two foreign operators. The airframes which saw service with the Hungary air force fought on the Eastern Front while the Swedish ones watched over the neutrality of this nordic country. The kit contains four styrene sprues and one with clear canopy parts. The wing sprues are based on the Classic Airframes model, all t... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 5
1:48 Heinkel He-177A-3 'Greif' The Heinkel He 177 Greif was the only German four-engine bomber deployed in larger numbers during World War II. Its operational use was not entirely successful, but the Heinkel He 177 is still an iconic aircraft. Its concept is unique. In each wing, two engines were placed side by side with a drive to a common gearbox. This turned a four-bladed propeller. The bomber thus looked like having only a pair... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £82.80 10+
1:48 Avro Anson Mk.I 'Anti-Submarine Annies' as the Avro Ansons were familiarly known then, flew during WW2 not just over their home skies in the UK, they were widely used also in Africa, Canada or Australia. And at the controls could be seen pilots of many various nationalities. And our SH48211 model kit and its colour schemes reminds us of such airmen who left their often occupied homes to fly and fight against the enemy. The fir... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £46.99 4
1:48 Siebel Si-204E 'German Night Bomber & Trainer' The Siebel Si 204A and Si 204D were the transport and trainer versions of the twin engined aeroplane originally built to be operated by the Lufthansa as well as (and mainly) by the Luftwaffe. In the war years, a trainer bomber version was built and later used in the night bombing role. This type was designated the Si 204E and a pair of prototypes and a small batch of Si 204E-0 pro... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £49.50 7
1:48 V-156F Vindicator 'Aeronavale Service' In the effort to get modern military aircraft, France bought larger numbers of US machines in 1939. Among them also the V-156 Vindicator dive bombers. The French version was designated the V-156F and differed significantly from the US machines it was not fitted with the arrestor hook below the fuselage and instead carried air brakes in the wings. The V-156Fs also got French armament - mac... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £30.80 10+
1:48 Hawker Tempest Mk.II 'Hi-Tech' (prepared with Eduard) The Tempest Mk.II was the last radial engine fighter aeroplane to introduced to service with the RAF. The type had been developed for the planned atack against Japan in the closing stages of the war. But using the atomic bombs by the Americans meant an end to those plans and the Tempest Mk.II was deployed in a couple of post-war era conflicts instead. Bearing RAF colours, i... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £42.50 7
1:48 SIAI-Marchetti SF-260EA/D/EU 'Late Bulged Canopy Type' The Italian SF-260 training, sports and aerobatic aircraft is widely used around the globe. In Europe, it fliey with the Italian and Belgian military and was in service with the Irish Air Corps. The type is also used both by military and civilian operator in Asia, Africa and America. In our offer you can find model kit no. SH48207 in its early variety featuring smaller, fl... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 8
1:48 Saab AJ-37 Viggen The Saab 37 Viggen was an aircraft well ahead of its time. Unorthodox solutions chosen by its designers not only enabled the type to meet all the requirements, but to even surpass them in a couple of respects. The Swedish military ordered the jet in several various versions which all would share a common platform, which joined only by some special equipment would permit the operation in several various roles.... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £66.80 7
1:48 Aero C-3B 'Czechoslovak Bomber-Trainer' WAS £49.50. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! T The Siebel Si 204A and Si 204D were the transport training versions of the twin-engined aircraft designed and built for the Lufthansa and, mainly, for the Luftwaffe. A bomber trainer version was also built during the war which was capable of taking night bombing missions, too. Known as the Si 204E, two prototype machines were built and a small batc... Aircraft kits (injection) Special Offers £32.99 10+
1:48 Piper L-4 Grasshopper 'From Africa to Central Europe. It quite soon became clear to the US military, as well as the British RAF, that the rather large and complicated types such as the O-47 or Lysander which had been designed in the pre-war days for army co-operation, close support, artillery observation and liaison roles were in fact ill-suited for the real operations. Lighter types with the ability of very short take offs an... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £21.40 9
1:48 Bugatti 100 Racer In the pre-war years, Ettore Bugatti, a very well known racing car designer, took the opportunity and decided to turn his attention to aviation too and come with a concept of a racing aeroplane which was to win the then rather popular Deutsch de la Muerthe races. At first, the plane was to be fitted with just one engine, this was later reconsidered and two powerplants were used, placed asymmetricaly in the sl... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £20.25 10+
1:48 Piper J-3 Cub The light and cheap J-3 Cub aeroplanes were behind the development of the civil aviation in the USA in the late 1930s. With the end of the world crisis the interest in aviation increased and the J-3 was an ideal type for the basic training and tourist flying. With WW2 coming, the J-3 came into the sights of the military and the USAAF decided to test the type in the artillery spotting and short range recon roles. ... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £23.60 10+
1:48 Piper L-4 Cub in 'Post War Service' Quite soon it became clear to the US military, as well as the British RAF, that the rather large and complicated types such as the O-47 or Lysander which had been designed in the pre-war days for army co-operation, close support, artillery observation and liaison roles were in fact ill-suited for the real operations. Lighter types with the ability of very short take offs and landings proved ... Aircraft kits (injection) Catalogue £21.40 5