Aircrafts
2024-10-04
Italeri is releasing this month Italeri – 1472 – Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete, a kit not seen since 1971, with some refined parts and restored molds.
As every month Hasegawa is releasing a well number of kits as well as restocking much more. We start to work on the coming list adding an easy one, Hasegawa – SP623 – Ace Combat 7 Skies Unknown F-15C Eagle Galm 2, there is not too much to say about the kit, yet another Hasegawa F-15C with a new decal sheet, for the fans of the video game Ace Combat 7.
2024-10-06
Has been a while since we did not add an oldie in the Aircraft section, and today we published ESCI – McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet, keeping the program to recover the ESCI Aircraft kits in 1/72 scale released in the 80s. We have follow the one single article for all the related kits as we did with ESCI – McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, give us your feedback if you prefer individual entries for each code number as we used to do in the past.
2024-10-11
Updated A&A Models – 7241 – Douglas AD-5N Skyraider Night Attack Aircraft with sprue pictures, the kit is finally available.
Also updated today Answer – 72042 – PZL TS-8 Bies Trop which finally will become on sale soon, added sample pictures of a finished model by the brand, showing how nicely detailed the kit is.
2024-10-12
Special-Hobby is reissuing two past kits, Special Hobby – 72162 – Short Sunderland Mk. V “Fighting Commies in Europe and the Far East” and Special Hobby – 72388 – Mirage F.1C/ C-200 “Armée de l’Air”, both are excellent kits but we in particular love the big Short Sunderland. Also updated the currently on sale Special Hobby – SH72446 – B-12A Bomber “Yellow Wings over America” with images from box content and markings detail.
Great Wall Hobby adds another MiG-29 to their range with the release of Great Wall Hobby – S7208 – MiG-29AS 9-12 Late Type Slovak Air Force, an upgrade with new decals and 3D printed parts of kit Great Wall Hobby (GWH) – L7212 – MiG-29A Fulcrum 9-12 Late Type.
2024-10-14
As usually Hasegawa keeps a well advanced notice of their releases, we have a pending number of them, but today we added Hasegawa – 02483 – EF-111A Raven Electric Fox, the kit was issued not so far as 2019, but in any case it’s considered a good kit.
Airfix is releasing Airfix – A04021A – Bristol Beaufort Mk.IA, the second kit in their series of new 2020 tool 1/72 scale Bristol Beaufort. The subject has not been give a particular attention in the hobby and this is by far the best model available, suitable for all kind of modelers due its good recent engineering. In the old competitors for the subject only a very old FROG kit and the early 2000s Special Hobby kits are still available, but they can’t be compared.
The last of the coming Special Hobby kits has been added today, Special Hobby – 72510 – F-84F Thunderstreak “Luftwaffe” HI TECH.
2024-10-16
Airfix is issuing again their 2013 tooled de Havilland Tiger Moth updated with new decals in the release of Airfix – A02106A – de Havilland Tiger Moth.
2024-10-17
RS Models is issuing again their Airspeed AS.6 Envoy kit with two releases. Today we added RS Models – 92296 – Airspeed Envoy “Lynx engine” and RS Models – 92298 – Airspeed Envoy “Castor engine”.
2024-10-23
Clear Prop Models has a number of coming releases, the first one Clear Prop Models – 72033 – TB.2 UAV Ukrainian Air Force (Starter Kit), an update with new decals of their Baykar TB2 kit, and also Clear Prop Models – 72029 – H-75M Hawk (Starter Kit), again a decal sheet update of the 2022 kit for the Curtiss Hawk Model 75.
2024-10-25
The last of the new Clear Prop Models is Clear Prop Models – 72028 – MQ-1C UAV (Advanced Kit), a subject they released in 1/48 scale earlier this year and now available also in 1/72 scale.
Arma Hobby is about to release Arma Hobby – 70078 – Nakajima Ki-43 II Hayabusa, a new tool of 2024 available for pre-order at their own site. The kit expected for next month is one of the waited releases of this year, as usually Arma Hobby delivers an excellent quality, and though other Ki-43 kits are available in 1/72 scale they are tools with some years in their backs.
2024-10-28
Updated Clear Prop Models – 72028 – MQ-1C UAV (Advanced Kit) with box content, decal sheet and parts pictures.
Excellent news by Azur/FRROM with the announce of the long time waited Azur FRROM – FR0055 – Bloch MB 210 “Early”. It has been since 1967 that another maker has been brave enough to replace the good but old Heller work. At least two more releases are aimed to expand this new Bloch MB.210 series.
Figures
2024-10-03
Excellent news as the first of the two Chintoys 1/72 scale sets is already on sale by some Ukraine based sellers in Ebay. Take a look at Chintoys – CHT72001 – Persians at Marathon, as well as we added sprue images so you can have your own opinion about this new 1/72 scale figures.
2024-10-21
Good news for 1/72 scale figure fans and in particular for those of the Napoleonic period, with the release of three new HäT boxes. The first one, just added, is a “sampler” of the French Light Chasseurs, HäT – 8341 – French Light Infantry Chasseur Sampler. We’ll add the other new sets, which are really new and for an uncommon topic, soon.
2024-10-22
As advanced yesterday, we added today the two new HäT releases, devoted to the Hungarian line infantry during the Napoleonic Wars, HäT – 8334 – Napoleonic Hungarian Infantry (Marching) and HäT – 8335 – Napoleonic Hungarian Infantry (Action).
Sci-Fi and Anime
2024-10-04
You all know we love to recover some vintage kit whenever we have time for it, and today we recovered the full series in 1/72 scale that Aoshima tooled in 1982 for the Anime Series Acrobunch. The kits in question are Aoshima – G5-AB-03 – Bancher Hornet (C-Mech), Aoshima – G5-AB-01 – Bancher Arrow (A-Mech) and Aoshima – G5-AB-02 – Falcon Bancher (B-Mech), with the combination of all of them into Aoshima – G5-AB-04 – Acrobunch, the culmination of the series. The series was also popular in France, where Acrobunch was known as “Thorn-Rock” and also had some echo in Canada.
2024-10-05
Hasegawa is updating the VF-0 line from Macross Zero with new parts to release Hasegawa – 65889 – VF-0S Gerwalk w/Ghost Macross Zero, the first VF-0 Gerwalk mode kit.
Vehicles
The Italian brand Italeri reissues this month a classic ESCI from 1974, Italeri – 7018 – Sd. Kfz. 171 Pz. Kpfw. V PANTHER Ausf. A, including the link-and-length tracks of the ESCI/Ertl version tooled in the 90s.
2024-10-28
GMU Models is about to release GMU – 72005 – WW2 Axle Trailer UP (U2-AP-3) with ZIS-5 Wheels, an update of their 2-axle trailer (firstly released in GMU Model – 72001 – YAZ-200 Army Truck 2-Axle Trailer 2-AP-3 and later as stand-alone model) updated with new 3D printed parts.
By their side Armory is about to release Armory – 72101 – Dennis 3t Lorry, British WWI lorry w/ flatbed cargo body, one of the main British World War I trucks by the iconic Dennis manufacturer, produced of commercial cars, fire engines and buses for over a century.
Updated Trumpeter – 07404 – Sd.Kfz.8 Gepanzerte 12t with sprue and parts pictures.
2024-10-30
Zvezda is about to release Zvezda – 5078 – T-70B Soviet Light Tank.
Playsets
2024-10-31
To close the month, we just added Italeri – 6186 – Bastogne Siege 80 Years (Battle Set), a new battle-set by Italeri, composed as usually of some of their figures, vehicles and a MDF building to complete the set. This kind of products still have their fans, though we feel they don’t add so much value and while we loved the ESCI playsets in our childhood, we don’t feel the same with this later Italeri issues. The Italian brand released their last original figure set in 2014, ten years ago, and that figures are included in this last playset, the German in winter uniform. A decade without new Italeri figures in 1/72 scale is a well sign of the state of this particular hobby.
