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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...
RE-RELEASED!!! I.M.A.M. (Romeo) Ro-57bis Italian Fighter Bomber The IMAM / Romeo Ro.57 powered with a pair of Fiat A 74 R.C.38 engines had been originally designed as an interceptor but following the initial flight tests it was decided to delegate it to the fighter-bomber role instead designated Ro.57bis. A total of 200 was ordered later to be cut down to only 90 airframes and eventually only 60 of them were produced. These we...
RE-RELEASED!!! Supermarine Seafire Mk.III The Seafire naval fighter aircraft came into existence during WWII as a mere stopgap measure based on a standard Mk.V Spitfire airframe adapted by adding naval equipment. Three versions were produced, which were fitted with a RR Merlin engine, which were the Mk.I to Mk.III, followed later by Griffon-equipped Seafires Mk.15, 17, 45, 46 and 47 (Special Hobby offers the Mk.15 version unde...
RE-RELEASED!!! Gloster E.28/39 Pioneer The first British jet. The first British jet aircraft and the third one in the world that succesfully took to the air was the Gloster E.28/39, called the Pioneer or Squirt. Its development was no doubt the result of the work on the first British jet engine by the designer Frank Whittle and his company Power Jets Ltd. Development of the Power Jets W.1 engine began already in the pre-war ye...
JB-2 Loon 'US Version of V-1 Missile' 1/32 post WWII. JB-2 Loon 'US Version of V-1 Missile' 1/32 1/32
The German V1 missiles were copied and manufactured in the USA under the designation JB-2 Loon. They were to be used against Japan, but the use of the atomic bomb ended the war. Nevertheless, they were accepted into service by the US Army, USAAF and US Navy and used until the mid-1950s.
The kit contains three sprues of plas...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 '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...
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...
Fieseler Fi-103/V-1 'Hi-Tech' version. Model of the German unmanned missile which was used in the offensive against the UK. Following the Allied invasion to France, the missiles were aimed at Antwerp, Liege and Brussels too and launched from land-based sites or from flying aircraft. The kit contains three grey styrene sprues, a decal sheet, photo-etched fret, superbly detailed resin cast parts of the pulse jet engine and full ...
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...