Preview: Special Hobby, planet & CMK kits for November...

Special Hobby, Planet & CMK's November releases have some interesting new & adapted kits & 3-D printed accessories from their ranges incoming. We look at the best of them in our preview...

Preview: Special Hobby, planet & CMK kits for November

In Special Hobby's releases for November, you will find the DB-7 Havoc Mk.I Intruder kit set, and following last month's Boomerang, now the 1/48 Wirraway is here again on the offer of a new boxing. They have also prepared a re-release of the 1/48 AH-1G Cobra, now wearing very attractive US Navy and marines liveries.

Included are the interesting upcoming resin & 3D printed models and sets. The MQM-74A Chukar was widely used target drone and now it comes to the offer in the form of a 1/72 3D-printed kit set. The same vehicle is to be released before the end of the year in the 1/48 scale. Next, another kit worthy of your attention is the 1/72 M29C Weasel. This is a 3D-printed kit that also contains a sheet of decals and a fret of etches. The figure of an RAF mechanic with the accumulator trolley is also extraordinary. The trolley is also available in 1/72 scale.

CAC Wirraway ‘In training and combat’

From Special Hobby

1/48th scale

Kit No #SH48242

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

The Wirraway was an Australian adaptation of the US-built Texan aircraft and it served as for pilot training, reconnaissance and ground attack missions. In combat areas, the Wirraways were also used to identify and mark enemy targets. The Wirraway was produced in a couple of series, differing in some details and internal equipment.

The kit comes on three styrene sprues, one with clear parts, it also contains a set of resin cast parts, etches and a decal sheet with markings for two machines, one of which was flown in northern Australia, coloured yellow overall and with large number on the fuse, the other one was operated in New Guinea in a green scheme with white empennage.

The plastic parts of the kit

AH-1G Cobra 'Marines/US Navy'

From Special Hobby

1/48th scale

Kit No#48235

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

 In the US Marine Corps and the Navy, there were much less AH-1G Cobras than in the US Army. And even so, Marine Cobras fought in Vietnam and as well as the Navy machines, they wore attractive colour schemes. 

Those of you who fancy naval machines will now have a nice and welcome chance to build such Cobra helicopter model using our new boxing which offers four scheme options, two from the Vietnam war, two from the US. Three of them as flown with the Marines, the fourth belonged to the Navy. This  detailed model consists of as many as ten grey styrene sprues and one with clear parts.

The plastic parts of the kit

 DB-7 Havoc Mk.I 'Intruders'

From Special Hobby

1/72nd scale

Kit No #SH72467

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

Not long before the outbreak of WW2, France ordered the then newly developed DB-7 light bombers from the Douglas company in the USA. Some machines, powered by P&W R-1830 engines and fitted with a narrow and short tail fin, were actually received and deployed in combat in 1940. The French machines went on flying and fighting until 1945, sometimes also switching sides. Before its defeat in 1940, France was not able to take over all of the ordered machines so some of them went to Britain instead where they were operated as the Havoc Mk.I bombers. Next machines, which were powered with the Wright R-2600 and known as the Havoc Mk.II / Boston Mk.III followed. The first Havoc Mk.I versions flew in the light bomber role and were not equipped with a specialised night radar. The night flying Intruder machines were used to attack enemy's airfields at night, while those of the airframes fitted with a radar, were used to defend the night skies over Britain.

This kit of the DB-7 Havoc Mk.I ‘Intruders’ set offers three all-black painted Intruder machines fitted with night exhausts and one bomber machine in a special test colour scheme. These machines were used by a couple of British ace pilots to achieve their first victories and were also used by Polish crews. There is one important thing associated with the Havoc exhausts – and that Special Hobby learned about only after finishing the kit moulding tools. All the reference materials and scale drawings that they had, including those published in 2024, show engine exhaust only on the outboard side of the engine nacelles. While researching the camouflage schemes, it became clear that it is one of the long time repeated errors as the DB-7/Havoc Mk.I airframes did have the exhausts stacks on either side of the nacelles, i.e. on the outboard as well as on the inboard side. So, this latest kit contains two pairs of night exhausts as well as two pairs of standard ones and also correction parts for the cowling flaps.

The plastic parts of the kit

The 3D printed additions to the kit...

CMK Kits:

RAF Mechanic with Accumulator Trolley 

From CMK

1/48th scale

Kit No#F48405

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

3D-printed figure of an RAF ground crew member with an accumulator trolley that fits to almost any RAF fighter aeroplane from 1943 to 1950.

B-25B/C/D/G  Mitchell Entrace Hatch and Ladder (front and rear)

-For Ac. Min., Revell, Italeri, Academy kits

From CMK

1/1/48th scale

Kit No#P48015

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

3D-printed air intakes, both the front and rear ones, that are designed to fit B-25 kits produced by Accurate Miniatures or as re-boxed by Revell, Italeri and Academy. While the original kit offers the open entrance hatches, the surrounding internal area is left empty. This set brings much better detailed hatches with steps, but also the entrance frames and interior doors that are completely missing in the kit.

British WWII GP 250lb bomb (2 pcs.)

From CMK

1/72nd scale

Kit No#P72029

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

A pair of British 500 lb bombs from the WW2 period. These bombs are one-part affair made by direct 3D print and offer very nice details.

British WWII MC 500lb bomb Mk.IV (2 pcs.)

From CMK

1/72nd scale

Kit No#P72030

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

A pair of British 500 lb bombs from the WW2 period. These bombs are one-part affair made by direct 3D print and offer very nice details.

RAF Accumulator Trolley

From CMK

1/72nd scale

Kit No#P72032

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

3D-printed accumulator trolley as used by the RAF from the 1930s to late 1950s.

MQM-74A Chukar ‘Target Drone’ 

From CMK

1/72nd scale

Kit No# P72035

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

Finely detailed, 3D-printed model of the Chukar target unmanned aerial vehicle, or a drone, that had been developed in the 1960s. To get to the air, the drone used a tripod launcher structure, either ground or vessel based. This tripod is also portrayed in our kit. 

The markings in this kit

The Chukars were used by the US Navy, British Royal Navy, a couple of NATO countries and also by Israeli military. The decal sheet offers you the possibility to build one of as many as six various and colourful schemes.

The parts & decals

The built-up kit.

Planet Models:

M29C Weasel ‘Amphibious Version’

From Planet Models

1/72nd scale

Kit No#MV137

Product Link on @Hobbylink Japan

3D-printed model set with etched details and a sheet of decals. This amphibious version of the US-built M29C Weasel tracked transport vehicle was used both in Europe and the Pacific Area during WW2, by American troops and Brits as well. The vehicles were also deployed to Korea and later used by the French in Vietnam.

These new kits are available on Special Hobby's Website or from Hobbylink Japan