Wednesday, July 12

Preview: Special Hobby & CMK's latest kits & resin in August

Special Hobby & CMK have plenty of new kits out in August - machine guns, a glider, tools, a barricade, four pigs, a cranky camel & a colourful Buckeye - See more about them in our preview...


Preview: Special Hobby & CMK's latest kits & resin in August

Every month Special Hobby seem to release a bunch of kits and aftermarket. Most of these pretty interesting. We thought we would show you what's new in a preview.

T-2 Buckeye ‘Anniversary Markings’
by Special Hobby
1/32nd scale
Product Code: 100-SH32087
The North American T-2 Buckeye was an American training and training aircraft from the Cold War period. The prototype flight took place in 1958. Serial production was carried out in the years 1958-1970. In total, about 530 serial copies of this aircraft were made. The drive was provided - in the T-2C version - by two engines General Electric J85-GE-4 turbojets . The plane's top speed is 840 km / h. The machine did not have on-board weapons.
In the mid-1950s, the US Navy searched for an advanced training jet plane. The North American company, meeting these needs, offered the T-2 Buckeye machine, which was accepted by decision-makers from the American Navy. The new plane was based on many components of the FJ-1 Fury and T-28 Trojan aircraft. This allowed to reduce production costs and accelerate its commissioning. In the course of production, three basic development versions of this aircraft were created. The first one was called T-2A and was powered by a single jet engine. 
Shortly thereafter, a version of the T-2B was created, which was already powered by two engines Pratt and Whitney J-60-P1 turbojets, which improved its performance and flight safety. The last version produced for the US Navy was T-2C with two engines General Electric J85-GE-4. Regardless of the version The T-2 Buckeye was a very successful machine, with considerable structural strength, simple operation, easy to pilot and incredibly reliable. These qualities meant that the machines of this type were used in the US Navy until 2008, and were also purchased by Venezuela and Greece.


Grunau Baby IIB ‘German WWII Glider’
by Special Hobby
1/48th scale
Product Code: 100-SH48237
Both in the pre-war years and during the war, the Grunau Baby IIB was the most widely used glider all around the world. It is estimated that about six thousands of these simple airframes might have been built. While before the war, the Grunau Baby gliders were built mainly by amateur pilots using available drawings, with the war on the horizon the type entered almost mass production in Germany to serve as a basic training type with the NSFK-Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps, a paramilitary organization within the Nazi party. And the same system of flying training was used by Germany allies such as Slovakia or Croatia.
Our model of this important type comes on one styrene sprue joined by a clear one with the windshield. The decal sheet caters for two NSFK gliders, one of which flew in a camouflage scheme in Eastern Prussia in 1944 whilst the other one was flown from an airfield near the city of Dresden and featured a painted emblem of a sponsoring organisation. These two schemes are joined by two more, one from Slovakia with civil registration and one as owned by the Croatia air force.


Afrikakorps Soldier Prodding Unwilling Camel
by CMK
1/72nd scale
Product Code: 129-F72391
3D-printed figure of an Africa Korps soldier forcing his camel to rise to its feet by pulling the bridle, evidently to no avail at all. The beast figure is 3D printed, too and it comes with a Tuareg-style saddle.


Sow with piglets 
by CMK
1/72nd scale
Product Code: 129-F72393
Very nicely 3D printed sow with her three young piglets. This animal family will make an unusual basis for a country related diorama or add welcome detail to other types of dioramas, too. It is just about the modeller's creativity.


M1917 US Machine Gun 
by CMK
1/35th scale
Product Code: 100-SH32087
Heavy, water-cooled machine gun developed by US company Browning that had originally been introduced to military service as early as in 1917 and used not only in WW1 but due to its excellent performance also in WW2, and both the Korea and Vietnam wars. Our model is offered with a tripod stand and ammunition crates, wooden one as used in the Great War and a metal-made one of WW2 vintage.


MG 42 German WWII Machine Gun (Late Variant)
by CMK
1/35th scale
Product Code: 100-SH32087
3D-printed German MG42 machine gun used in WW2, even though this set contains the later variety that was introduced to the Wehrmacht in 1944 and remained in use until the end of the war.


Czech Hedgehog (Rozsocháč) - WWII Anti-tank Barrier (2 pcs)
by CMK
1/48th scale
Product Code: 129-P35016
Price: $11 USD from Hobbylink Japan
Made of assembled and welded steel beams, this anti-tank obstacle was in fact a Czechoslovak invention originally devised to be used in the border fortifications.  When Nazi Germany took over not just the border regions but occupied the whole of our country, the production of these hedgehogs went on but for the Wehrmacht instead. The German army used them on the Western front as well as in the East,  the hedgehogs are widely known from the photos of the Omaha Beach in the Atlantic Wall. Our set contains four 3D-printed Hedgehogs.


German WWII Aircraft Maintenance Toolbox
by CMK
1/72nd scale
Product Code: 129-P35016
Price: $19 USD from Hobbylink Japan
 3D-printed toolbox that can be used in any diorama featuring aircraft and military vehicles of German or almost any other origin. Fits also very nicely war-prize machines such as Czechoslovak Avia S-199.

These new kits are available on Special Hobby's Website