Special Hobby

[Beermonster58]

Bonus points if they're wearing a tin foil hat.

 

[Spey_Phantom]

the titan would look good in Yellow with a red trim, and "Thunderbird 4" written on the sides 

[PR19_Kit]

Then you'd have to build a HUGE green Thunderbird 2 to carry it around! 

[NARSES2]

Special Hobby have announced they are re-issuing their BV.155. I thoroughly enjoyed mine, tempted to get another to do as a recce job.

[PR19_Kit]

Interesting email from SH this morning announcing a resin Sabre engine for the Airfix Tempest V and a trolley-ack, pilot and ground crewman AND a dog as well!

The Sabre might be able to fit a Typhoon too methinks, and I can't recall anyone doing a decent trolley-ack before. 

https://www.specialhobby.eu/tempest-mk-v-engine-and-fuselage-tanks-1-72-for-airfix-kit

https://www.specialhobby.eu/tempest-pilot-dog-and-mechanic-with-accumulator-trolley-1-72

[The Wooksta!]

Led-Sled and Aircraft in Miniature have done them before.

[Weaver]

Special Hobby have a sale on for the next week: https://www.specialhobby.eu/vystava

WAREHOUSE CLEANING SALE - FROM MONDAY 5.2. TO MONDAY 12.2.

Dear customers of the Special Hobby e-shop,

We have prepared a discount event for you as part of our warehouse cleaning!
From Monday, February 5th, to Monday, February 12th, you can enjoy discounts on all items manufactured before the end of the year 2023.


DISCOUNT AMOUNT:
Club discount: 10%
Extra discount for club members: an additional 15%
 

✨ EXCLUSIVE FOR REGISTERED CUSTOMERS:
The discount is exclusively for registered customers.
The discount applies to all items manufactured before the end of the year 2023.


DISCOUNTS VALID UNTIL STOCKS LAST:
The promotion is limited by our stock. Discounts apply until the warehouse stocks are sold out.

Thank you for your patronage, and we look forward to your orders.

Best regards,

Special Hobby e-shop Team

Now I'm registered but not in the club (I don't think...) yet it's offering me 25% discount in the catalogue. I havn't tried checking out yet though...

[Weaver]

Well this is a new one: Special Hobby are reissuing their 1/72nd F-84F Thunderstreak kit in four Luftwaffe schemes, and included in the box will be fragments of one of the real machines which crashed in the Sumava mountains in 1959:

https://www.specialhobby.info/2024/03/sh72505-f-84f-thunderstreak-reborn.html

Can't decide if that's tasteful or not to be honest:  I suppose it all depends on what happened to the pilot.

Depending on what the parts are, I suppose you could incorporate them into a display base that tells the story of what happened.

[Nick]

Well this is a new one: Special Hobby are reissuing their 1/72nd F-84F Thunderstreak kit in four Luftwaffe schemes, and included in the box will be fragments of one of the real machines which crashed in the Sumava mountains in 1959:

https://www.specialhobby.info/2024/03/sh72505-f-84f-thunderstreak-reborn.html

Can't decide if that's tasteful or not to be honest:  I suppose it all depends on what happened to the pilot.

Depending on what the parts are, I suppose you could incorporate them into a display base that tells the story of what happened.

It's not all bad. A flight of 2 F-84s (DD107, DD108) from West Germany got lost in thick cloud and and hit the trees in Czechoslovakia. The pilots made good use of their Martin Baker MK.GT5 ejection seats. They then had a stay in prison...
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/122596

Pictures and story of the wreckage here: http://www.leteckabadatelna.cz/havarie-a-sestrely/detail/153/

[zenrat]

Be nice if you could choose which part.  I'd have a turbine blade (because I think it would look greedy if I asked for a whole engine).

[Weaver]

Special Hobby are having a summer cleaning sale. Up to 50% off and lasts until August 31st.

Link: https://www.specialhobby.eu/sale

Some highlights (all 1/72nd scale injection full kits):

Bell X-1E, X-1A/D, Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, D-558-1 Skystreak: all under €10 each
Me-163C (bubble cockpit) prototype and what-if boxings: both under £10 each (there's a couple of nice ATAIU-SEA markings in the what-if boxing)
Me-209V-4: under €8.70
Seversky P-35 War Games and War Training boxing: €10
Swedish J9/EP-106 (Republic EP-1/Seversky P-35A): €11
Gloster Meteor T Mk.7.5: €13.20
SMB-2 Super Mystere Duo Pack (2 x kits plus book): €36.09
Supermairne Sea Otter: €14.50
Boulton-Paul Balliol Civvie & Foreign users boxings: €11.00 (This is the one to get BTW because it has BOTH wing sets (folding and non-folding) in it).

(Edited to change Sterling to Euros. 1 Euro is about £0.85 at the moment so these are even cheaper than they look)

[jcf]

Note that the P-35 and the J-9 are not the same aircraft. The J 9, Seversky EP-106, had a longer fuselage. Sixty EP-106 were taken into USAAC service as the P-35A after the US arms export embargo was enacted in 1940.

[Weaver]

Note that the P-35 and the J-9 are not the same aircraft. The J 9, Seversky EP-106, had a longer fuselage. Sixty EP-106 were taken into USAAC service as the P-35A after the US arms export embargo was enacted in 1940.

Yes, good spot: the two kits have different main sprues, but share a common clear sprue and etch(?).

[jcf]

If one wants to build Jackie Cochrane's 1938 Bendix Trophy winning aircraft the J-9 kit is what you'd use.
The AP-7 racer she flew was the basis of the EP-106 and the other "long fuselage" members of the family.

[Weaver]

If one wants to build Jackie Cochrane's 1938 Bendix Trophy winning aircraft the J-9 kit is what you'd use.
The AP-7 racer she flew was the basis of the EP-106 and the other "long fuselage" members of the family.

Cool - I don't suppose there's a decal sheet available for it is there?