Hobby Boss Kits

[Mossie]

The Sea Hawk is particularly welcome to me & I've always liked the funky little Mi-2.  Not my scale, but I'll look forward to seeing what folks do with the 1/48 Forger.

[Sauragnmon]

If that Forger's any good, I'm hoping they transfer it down to 1/72 - I would love to get my hands on a Forger or Two and give them some of the varying fits that were allowable on the Forger.  I'm also curious as to whether that Forger model will include the centerline gun pod mounting.

[Thorvic]

I seem to recall that Matchbox did something similar.  They released plenty of obscure types (Short Stranraer anyone?)  but few seemed to buy them and consequently, the company went bust.

Yes, we might want something unusual, but Hobbyboss are in this to make money. The model buying public seem to like dull grey boring stuff that's been done before and if another tooling of a dull grey aeroplane keeps them afloat and means that they can release a 72nd Sea Hawk, then I'm all for it.  If you don't like their releases, you don't have to buy.

Hmmn Panther and Sea Hawk, guess which 1/48th scale models they are scaled down from.....

[ChernayaAkula]

For those interested, I posted an in-box review of theHobby Boss 1/72 Rafale C >>HERE<< on ARC. In short: Beauty of a kit! Best 1/72 Rafale yet!



Let the whiffin' begin!

[Green Dragon]

Great review Moritz, many thanks! Have to get one.

Paul Harrison

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Off to Hannants in a few minutes to order the 'C' and a two-seater 'B'....... So much What If potential..... (USN Aggressor anybody ??)

Ian

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Scotty Battistoni has posted a rather in-depth in-box kit review of the HobbyBoss A-7B Corsair II (1/48th scale Kit #HB-80343) on Hyperscale.  He has also been quite honest about what he found in the box, no holding back on the criticism which is nice to see for a change and especially with an expensive model kit such as this.

(image source: Scotty Battistoni/hyperscale.com)



Modellversium.de has uploaded a kit review of the new Hobbyboss Tornado IDS (1/48th scale, Kit Nr. 80353)

You can click on the html text or the image to go to the review

[img]http://www.modellversium.de/kit/bilder/7/0/7/4707-tumb.peg[img]
(image source: Modellversium.de)
Quite a few sprue shots in this review and it appears that most if not all of the parts for the RAF Tornado are included.  The Alarm missiles certainly look better than the same parts provided in the Airfix Tornado kit and the inclusion of the MW-1 munitions dispenser pod and the air refueling store is really nice.  

[ChernayaAkula]

Just saw this on the website of a German model shop. Hobby Boss will release a 1/72 Dora 80cm railway gun! 



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[chrisonord]

That would look good in desert cam, and Iraqi flags on it
and pointed at Israel.
Chris.

[nev]

With a "made in Canada" sticker?

[Spey_Phantom]

i would love to get my hands on some of those Zlin Z-92 kits, i would then reverse engineer one into a COIN aircraft (NilZ 29-Z, or the Nils-29  )

[B777LR]

i would love to get my hands on some of those Zlin Z-92 kits, i would then reverse engineer one into a COIN aircraft (NilZ 29-Z, or the Nils-29  )

It's the Zlin Z-43, not 92
It's not that far off though. The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka used Z-43s and Z-143s against the Sri Lankan AF and army. Little success though, and they were eventually all shot down.

[PR19_Kit]

That would look good in desert cam, and Iraqi flags on it
and pointed at Israel.

For true authenticity (if I can use such a word in here..) you'd have to model some IDF F-15s and F-16s above it peppering it with heavy munitions, because that's surely what would have been its fate!

[ChernayaAkula]

Or an SAS team. See Frederick Forsyth's "Fist of God".

[PR19_Kit]

Or an SAS team. See Frederick Forsyth's "Fist of God".

Funny  about that, I just re-read it for about the 6th time. 

But it was still an F-15E, albeit a USAF one, that dropped the bombs, the SAS guys aimed the laser for the Paveways to 'see'.