The Modelling News: A new website and four new kits for February from Hobbyboss…

Hobbyboss' February items - mostly for the tank guys but a specter of a Helix that will get nearly all modellers interest... Let's have a look...

Hobbyboss new items for February 2015

Hungarian 44M TAS

Model #83850

Scale 1:35th

The 44M TAS tank was designed both as a main battle tank and tank destroyer equipped with a 75mm gun. The design was preferred over having to develop a turretless tank destroyer armed with an 88mm gun. Conceived in 1943, it was intended to replace the inferior Hungarian 40M Turan and 43m Zrinyi. Mass production would have stared in 1945 but the factory and the prototype were destroyed in 1944.

Features

The kit consists of over 390 parts

>the kit w/refined detail

>multi-slide moulded upper hull

>photo etched parts included

>individual tracks

Model Dimension Length: 261mm Width:99 mm

Total Plastic Parts 390+

Total Sprues 11 sprues, upper hull and lower hull

Metal Parts brass wire

Photo Etched Parts 1 sheet

Soviet BA-3 Armoured Car

Model #83838

1:35^th scale

The BA-3 was a heavy armoured car developed in the Soviet Union in 1933, followed by a slightly changed model, the BA-6 in1936. Both were based mostly on the BA-I, the most important difference being the new turret, same one as in the T-26 m1933 and BT-5 tanks, and also equipped with the45 mm main gun. Around 180 BA-3 cars were built until production ceased in 1935.

Most of BA-3 production was based on the Ford-Timken chassis, a 6×4 modification of the US Ford AA 4×2 truck, but the last batch was built on a Russian version of the same chassis - GAZ-AAA, continued to be used in BA-6. The biggest limitation of the BA-3 was mobility, limited to roads or very hard ground, the result of its unnecessarily large weight. The innovation that slightly improved mobility were the auxiliary ("Overall") tracks that could be fitted onto the rear tandem wheels, effectively converting the car to half-track.

Features

The kit consists of over 290 parts

>the kit w/refined detail

>multi-slide moulded hull

>turret split into three parts

>photo etched parts included

>rubber tires

Model Dimension Length: 140.8mm Width: 59.5mm

Total Plastic Parts 290+

Total Sprues 12 sprues, hull and tires

Photo Etched Parts 2 pcs

Russian Ka-27 Helix

Model #81739

1/48^th scale

The Kamov Ka-27 Helix is a military helicopter developed for the Soviet Navy, and it is currently in service in various countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and the People's Republic of China.

Like other Kamov military helicopters it has coaxial rotors, removing the need for a tail rotor. The prototype took the first flight in the 24th of December, 1973.The Ka-27PL Helix-A is the standard anti-submarine warfare variant.

Features

The kit consists of over 290 parts

-Detailed fuselage w/accurate design

-Detailed cockpit

Model Dimensions Length: 280mm Rotor diameter: 331.5mm

Total Plastic Parts 290+

Total Sprues 11 sprues

Soviet T-35 Heavy Tank - 1938/1939

Model #83843

1:35^th Scale

The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service with the Red Army. It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable. Most of the T-35 tanks still operational at the time of Operation Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure rather than enemy fire. Externally it was large but internally the spaces were cramped with the fighting compartments separated from each other, with some of the turrets even obscuring crew hatches.