February 2021, 1/72 Scale News.

New month, new updates.

1/72 Scale Aircraft.

Is that day of the month when AZ Model and Kovozávody Prostějov hit the market with 7 new kits, all of them variants or re-decals of previous released kits.

AZ Model – AZ7672 – Vought Kingfisher “In U.S. Service”
Kovozávody – KPM0217 – Avia S-199 “Sakin”
AZ Model – AZ7671 – Bf 109E-3a “In Romanian Service”
AZ Model – AZ7659 – Bf 109E-7 “Schlacht Emils”
AZ Model – AZ7667 – HA-1112M-1L Buchón
AZ Model – AZ7668 – HA-1112M-1L Buchón “In Camouflage”
AZ Model – AZ7664 – Bf 109E-3 “In Swiss Service”

Because you never have enough Messerschmitt Bf-109 variants in 1/72 scale, including the Spanish Buchón and the Czech Avia S-199.

Eduard also has something new for this month, Eduard – 7404 – Nieuport Ni-17 (Weekend Edition) , their good Nieuport Ni-17 is back in a Weekend edition format. (The brand is still recovering from the fire suffered in their main warehouse so we encourage you to buy directly from them)

2021/02/04

Italeri announced a new Italeri – 1448 – F-4 E/F Phantom II which is an upgraded old kit with new parts (nose).

2021/02/05

Hobby 2000 is releasing shortly two new re-packages, this time from a Revell kit, with very specific decals as they love to do.
Hobby 2000 – H2K72046 – P-47M Thunderbolt 62nd Fighter Squadron
Hobby 2000 – H2K72045 – P-47M Thunderbolt 61st Fighter Squadron

2021/02/07

While things are too quiet in terms of new releases, we took a bit of our time to add the small Unimodel (UM) Aircraft range in 1/72 scale (They do few more in 1/48 scale, out of our scope).
They all are based on the same aircraft, and same mould, Petlyakov Pe-2 the soviet Ground Attack, Diver Bomber. There are several miss-prints in the box covers, starting by that boxes who state to have 65 PE detail parts. Well, all the boxes contains the same PE sheet, and it’s 16 different PE parts.
UM – 109 – Soviet Dive Bomber Pe-2 (serie 205)
UM – 108 – Reconnaissance Pe-2R with Refueller BZ-38
UM – 107 – Dive Bomber Pe-2 with shooting plant VUB-1 (series 110)
UM – 105 – Soviet Dive Bomber Pe-2 with sistem FT (serie 87)
UM – 104 – Dive Bomber Pe-2 55 series (ski variant)
UM – 103 – Dive Bomber Pe-2 with unguided rockets (32 series)
UM – 102 – Dive Bomber Pe-2 Air Force Finland
UM – 101 – Soviet dive bomber Pe-2 (serie 1)

2021/02/11

Special Hobby announced two “new” releases, Special Hobby – SH72443 – Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 and Special Hobby – 72386 – Mirage F.1 EQ/ED

2021/02/12

RS Models keep running the moulds, as well as the new tools, and a new batch of releases are very close.
RS Models – 92255 – Dewoitine De.520 (New decals)
RS Models – 92256 – Reggiane 2005 (Changed decals but not new markings)
RS Models – 92257 – XP-79B Flying Ram (Re-issue of older code 92111)
RS Models – 92258 – Arado Ar-66C (Changed decals ?)
RS Models – 92261 – Me P.1107 (NEW TOOL 2020/21)
Also good news that they are re-stocking their great RS Models – 92244 – Dornier Do-22 & RS Models – 92245 – Dornier Do 22

2021/02/15

Hasegawa keeps pushing about F-4EJ Phantom II sunset in service of the JASDF with two new models Hasegawa – 02373 – F-4EJ PHANTOM II “ADTW Phantom Forever 2021” and Hasegawa – 02372 – F-4EJ Kai PHANTOM II “Last PHANTOM No.440” as well as another F-35, this time with real markings, Hasegawa – 02374 – F-35 “Lightening II” (A Version) “J.A.S.D.F. 301SQ”

2021/02/27

If you can’t wait till next month, the two March releases in 1/72 scale by Eduard, are already here and available from some German sellers in Ebay:
Eduard – 2135 – Du doch nicht! (Limited Edition, 3 Kits) An exclusive deluxe package with 3 kits (Albatros D.V, Fokker Dr. I and Fokker D.VII), 8 markings of Ernst Udet ace, PE parts and paint mask.
Eduard – 7456 – Z-37A Čmelák (Weekend Edition) Basic (weekend edition) of the successful and small Z-37A utility aircraft line.

1/72 Scale Figures.

2021/02/10

While we rework the site, several Figures manufactures are being deprecated, and so, we removed Nikolai Exclusive Modelling, MIR, Tragik and BUM. They are no longer listed in our site.

In the case of BUM and all the associated brands, a special page has been set up so you still have a chance of find some of their products. See the special page BUM / GER-MAN / Pobeda – Victory and Metch – Sword.
We are considering more removals at this time.

2021/02/27

With the month almost finishing, and after a couple of weeks very quiet, Linear-A has released three new mini boxes for the Napoleonic period, specially intended for the Battle of Waterloo. Is not what we most like to see, but any novelty is always welcome.
Linear-A – 004S – WATERLOO AFTER THE BATTLE SET 1 FRENCH DISASTER
Linear-A – 005S – WATERLOO AFTER THE BATTLE SET 2 BRITISH DISASTER
Linear-A – 006S – THE VICTORY OF WATERLOO

1/72 Scale Vehicles.

2021/02/11

Special Armour releases another kit coming from their past year acquisition of MK72 moulds, is the time for the Special Armour – 72019 – Sd.Kfz 250/1 Ausf.A (Alte Ausführung). Is the third MK72 model released by Special Armour, originally there would be two more, but hopefully Special Armour will produce more variants based on these moulds.

2021/02/12

Extratech brand has been also deprecated and moved from regular sections to a special page where you still can found whatever is available from this brand.

Planet Models following also the path to special page, the vehicles line is not updated often by the brand, and we never covered the aircrafts line. Hopefully the new special page will bring you some opportunity to get some of their old models or hard to find, without the frustration of check the regular section product pages to see they hadn’t any result available.

2021/02/21

HobbyBoss is releasing shortly an excellent Sam-2 Missile (S-75) kit. HobbyBoss – 82933 – Sam-2 Missile with Launcher Cabin

2021/02/27

HobbyBoss announces a second release for February, HobbyBoss – 82931 – Russian BM-21 Grad Multiple Rocket Launcher , based on their previous release of the URAL-4320 Truck HobbyBoss – 82930 – Russian URAL-4320 Truck which according to reviews seems to be a good kit with a superior quality than ICM same truck.

1/72 Sci-Fi.

2021/02/15

The new Hasegawa – 02368 – Mi-24 HIND “UAV” & Humanoid Light Tank “GOAT UGV” starts to appear from some Japanese sellers. An interesting mix, futurible, but fictional by now. The Mi-24 looks great as unmanned.

Hasegawa will be also releasing shortly a new Macross Plus fighter, Hasegawa – 65870 – VF-19A SVF-440 DULLAHANS w/FAST PACK & High-maneuver missiles

1/72 Misc. Updates.

2021/02/11

Aligned with the removal of several brands from our listings, but wanting to give you an option to find their products, we created a new kind of special page that also allowed us to add several brands that we never had the intention to add into regular categories by different reasons.

To test these new pages, together with the BUM page, we created a couple of pages for two Chinese brands, one for the “famous” or “infamous” 4D models, and another one for a small brand doing very easy/straight accessories, KiloKits.

If you will want to see some specific brand under this new kind of pages, send us an email or let us a comment.

2021/02/15

MIG Productions has been sunsetted from our regular sections and moved to a special page.

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