1/72 scale news for June 2021

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1/72 Scale Vehicles

01/06/2021

This month the honour for the first entry is for the new ACE – 72580 – G917T 3t German Cargo truck (m.1939) , not so famous as the Opel Blitz these trucks were manufactured in several versions till 1941, when Ford stopped send parts for them, and were produced in large quantities, around 25000 units.

02/06/2021

Fixed image box for IBG – 72016 – Chevrolet C15A No.11 Cab Watertank which was showing a wrong image.

03/06/2021

Italeri brings back to life another old ESCI kit without change a single part except decal sheet, we speak about the “new” Italeri – 7083 – Churchill Mk. III

04/06/2021

Re-using some of the parts from their previous release, Trumpeter – 07157 – M983 HEMTT & M901 Launching Station of MIM-104F Patriot SAM System (PAC-3), Trumpeter offers for this month Trumpeter – 07175 – M1120 HEMTT Load Handing System (LHS)

07/06/2021

Just added a missed entry earlier this year from T-Model, T-Model – TK7315 – U.S. Modern M1114 Interim Fragment (Frag) Kit 5 w/GPK Turret

09/06/2021

IBG has shared pictures from markings and parts included in IBG – 72088 – Type 95 Ha-Go Tank and so we added them.

First to Fight also shared the new release for this month, First to Fight – 83 – German Heavy Field Gun 15 cm s.IG 33 , which now is part of our listings.

18/06/2021

Vespid shared pictures of a built sample of their coming Panther using all the PE, metal and 3D printed parts and we also added them so you can see how nice it looks Vespid Models – 720003 – Pz.Kpfw.V “Panther” Ausf.G Late Production

19/06/2021

Box image updated for the “new” Revell – 03298 – Sd.Kfz. 234/2 Puma (First Diorama Set).

1/72 Scale Ships and Submarines

01/06/2021

The second entry of the month is for a really nice subject, we speak about the Mikro-Mir Mikro-Mir – 72018 – Krupp “Forel” , the first submarine ever built in Germany, despite it saw service with Imperial Russian Navy. A really nice addition.

1/72 Scale Aircraft

01/06/2021

IBG unveils the markings included in IBG – 72519 – PZL P.11c Polish Fighter and so we added. The kit is close to be released.

02/06/2021

Sword has restocked Sword – 72088SE – Fairey Gannet AEW.3 (Including operators interior) and Sword – 72098 – Harrier T.Mk.2/2A/4/4N

03/06/2021

Azur/Frrom is releasing a limited edition Frrom – FR0045 – Meteor T.Mk.7 , with 3 export versions decals.

Italeri completes its 1/72 scale offer for this month with a re-issue of the nice Italeri – 1450 – C-27J SPARTAN / G.222 , upgrading decals.

11/06/2021

Just few days ago RS-Models announced several re-releases which are already available and today strikes again with two announced Aero A 101 versions, RS Models – 92260 – Aero A-101 (Suitable for Spanish Civil war) and RS Models – 92262 – Aero Ab 101. This looks like an early announcement and kits may still take several weeks till be available.

15/06/2021

Special Hobby has a great month with several new additions and re-release. Firstly Special Hobby – 72345 – SMB-2 Super Mystère ‘Sa’ar – Israeli Storm in the Sky’ which is again available. A very appealing markings Special Hobby – 72382 – P-40M Warhawk, a newly tooled Special Hobby – 72270 – Tachikawa Ki-54Hei “Hickory” which is a great addition, never done before as injected plastic kit in our scale and lastly a new Bf-109 Special Hobby – 72454 – Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 “Lightly-Armed Emil”.

17/06/2021

Updated box image of the coming Hasegawa – 02380 – F/A-18F SUPER HORNET “VFA-103 JOLLY ROGERS 75TH ANNIVERSARY”

Fine Molds keeps releasing Phantom II variants, and while 4 new versions for U.S. markings are expected later this year by now we have added two new Japanese markings versions, Fine Molds – FP42 – RF-4EJ and Fine Molds – 72937 – F-4EJ

Airfix is about to release the long waited new tooled Airfix – A12011 – Avro Vulcan V.2 as well as put two new offers for already known kits such Airfix – A55001 – Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc (Small Starter Set) and the more interesting Airfix – A73100 – BAE Hawk NHS Livery – Competition Winning Design , a charity initiative which has produced two nice markings for the well known BAe Hawk.

18/06/2021

Kovozávody Prostějov smashes the month with 15 new releases in one of the largest batches we can remember and including two new tooled models.

VICKERS FB-19 WWI aircraft, new tooled
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0249 – Vickers FB-19 Mk.I “Bullet” RFC
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0250 – Vickers FB-19 Mk.II “Bullet” RFC
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0251 – Vickers FB-19 Mk.II “Bullet” In Russian Service

Hawker Tempest Mk.V, new tooled.
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0219 – Hawker Tempest Mk.V “Wing Commanders”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0220 – Hawker Tempest Mk.V “Clostermann”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0221 – Hawker Tempest Mk.V “Series 1.”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0222 – Tempest Mk.V “486. (NZ) SQ”

Fouga CM.170 Magister, updated Valom kit with new parts and decals.
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0244 – Fouga CM-170 Magister “Other Services”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0243 – Fouga CM-170 Magister “Over Israel”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0242 – Fouga CM-170 Magister “Over Europe”

North American P-51 Mustang, new decals for these 2015 Kovozávody moulds also released by AZ Model.
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0245 – P-51B “Mustang Aces”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0246 – F-6C “Photo-recce Mustang”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0247 – P-51B “Mustang Malcolm”
Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0248 – F-6C “Photo-recce Mustang Malcolm”

And lastly another Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – KPM0257 – Spitfire Mk.VB “Aboukirk”

AZ Model is just bit behind with 9 new releases this month as follows:

More Bf-109s (past year 2020 new tool)
AZ Model – AZ7800 – Bf 109F-4 “H.J.Marseille”
AZ Model – AZ7690 – Bf 109E-2/3/V20
AZ Model – AZ7689 – Bf 109E-3/7 “Special Markings” Part II
AZ Model – AZ7688 – Bf 109E-3 “In Yugoslavian Service”
AZ Model – AZ7677 – Bf 109E-3 “Bulgarian Eagles”

P-40 Warhawk (Originally Legato Plastic kit, already released by AZ Model as well as by RetroWings) new decals.
AZ Model – AZ7696 – P-40E Warhawk “AVG”
AZ Model – AZ7695 – P-40E Warhawk “49.th. FG”
AZ Model – AZ7694 – Kittyhawk Mk.Ia RAAF
AZ Model – AZ7693 – Kittyhawk Mk.Ia “RAF/SAAF”

19/06/2021

Hobby 2000 has an active month also, and it’s offering (again) one of their favourite topics, a new Hobby 2000 – H2K72047 – A-4E Skyhawk based on Fujimi plastic kit, it’s the 5th A-4 released by the brand. They also finally confirm that both Hobby 2000 – H2K72040 – Arado 234 B-2 End of War and Hobby 2000 – H2K72039 – Arado 234 B-2 First Jets will be available this month, has been long for these Dragon plastic kits. They confirm all the following kits as re-stocked:
Hobby 2000 – H2K72028 – F-4D Phantom II – Vietnam Aces 2 (Hasegawa)
Hobby 2000 – H2K72027 – F-4C Phantom II – Vietnam Aces 1 (Hasegawa)
Hobby 2000 – H2K72013 – Douglas SBD-2/3 Dauntless (Hasegawa)
Hobby 2000 – H2K72037 – A-4C Skyhawk (Fujimi)
Hobby 2000 – H2K72045 – P-47M Thunderbolt 61st Fighter Squadron (Revell)

21/06/2021

Dragon (Cyber-Hobby exclusive) is re-issuing two past kits, Dragon – 5112 – Sea Vampire F.20 and Dragon – 5085 – DH VAMPIRE FB.5, since both kits weren’t in our listings, it’s a good occasion to add them.

We have to say sorry to AVI Models because we already known about their recent and nice release of two kits for Cessna O-1 Bird Dog but we didn’t added till today, they are AVI Models – 72018 – O-1A/TL-19A Bird Dog US Army Instrument Trainers and AVI Models – 72019 – Asian Bird Dogs. We can only hope they do a Vietnam markings one soon.

23/06/2021

Updated some box images (replacing only box-art images) for some of the latest Sword kits, as Sword – SW72137 – Avenger/Tarpon Mk.I , Sword – SW72136 – TBF-1 Avenger over Midway and Guadalcanal and Sword – 72135 – TBM-3W Guppy and also added three past missed references by the brand as follows:
Sword – SW72126 – AD-4W/ Skyrider AEW.1
Sword – 72114 – TBM-3W “Guppy” USN, RCN, JMSDF
Sword – 72115 – Grumman TBM-3W “Guppy” Aeronautique Navale, Kon. Marine

IBG has shared pictures in detail of the decal sheet included in IBG – 72519 – PZL P.11c Polish Fighter and we added one as show case. All the latest batch of IBG 1/72 scale kit is officially released, (IBG – 72092 – Chevrolet C60S Petrol Tank and IBG – 72088 – Type 95 Ha-Go Tank together with the mentioned P.11) hopefully we’ll be able to add more details to those kits shortly.

29/06/2021

Things are so quiet we just can add future releases with unconfirmed dates, as are the first two Valom versions of the Curtiss C-46 Commando, in fact both kits are the same just with different decals. They are Valom – 72145 – C46A Commando (The Hump) and Valom – 72153 – R5C-1 Commando (U.S. Marine Corps). Valom is working in more variants, hopefully they not all will be just re-decals. As soon as we have more details, will update the product pages, by now, not much more than markings.

30/06/2021

Today things are the same calm down, so we can only add another future release kit, this time by Modelsvit, who keep exploiting their successful Mirage line with a new Modelsvit – 72062 – Mirage IIICJ, including Israeli and Argentinian (ex Israeli aircrafts) markings.

1/72 Scale Plastic Soldiers

14/06/2021

We love when we can add something new to our Plastic soldiers listing and Zvezda bring us this month two new mini boxes as Zvezda – 6277 – Soviet Motorcycle M-72 with Sidecar and Crew and Zvezda – 6174 – British Headquarters WWII 1939-1945 , both of them are nice and well detailed additions and will be available very shortly.

16/06/2021

Zvezda is also re-stocking Zvezda – 8054 – Turkish Cavalry which is a great news, kit is very nice and was being hard to find as well as expensive.

26/06/2021

While things are quiet, we just added back box images to the two last Mars releases, which are widely available already, they are Mars – 72124 – U.S. Infantry (Winter Uniform) WWII and Mars – 72123 – German Paratroopers (Tropical Uniform) with 10.5cm LG 42 & 8cm s.G.W.34 (WWII). Don’t forget they use the 1/32 scale figures for these back boxes, and to tease you.

1/72 Scale Contributions

Rafael Gonzales sent us his work over an old kit Testors SBD-3 Dauntless scratch building cockpit interior and engine as the kit lack of them.

Don’t forget you can send us pictures of your work in 1/72 scale any time through our submission form and we’ll be very happy to publish and keep your work safe on the net.

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