April Special Hobby & CMK Kits

Preview: Special Hobby &CMK kits for April

by Special Hobby

1/72nd Scale

Product Code: sh72485DecalsThe Hickory was a Japanese WW2 twin-engine aircraft produced in four versions, for pilots, wireless operators and navigators training, gunnery training, a transport version and anti-submarine operations type. The kit contains four styrene parts and one clear-injected part. This boxing depicts captured machines. One as flown by US pilots bearing a nose art and dubbed Lemon, a French machine operated in French Indochina (Vietnam) and a North Korean machine, recaptured by US troops during the Korea War.

– The Captured and Post War ServiceKi-54 has never been kitted in styrene format before.

for machines with interesting history

– Paint masks also available (but sold separately)

The plastic in the kit

P-40F/L Warhawk ‘Desert Hawks with Merlin’

1/72nd Scale

Product Code: SH72493

The P-40 Warhawk / Kittyhawk fighter aircraft were an important part of the USAAF and other allied air forces throughout the war. The P-40s were used on every battlefield of WW2. They came in many different subtypes. The kit contains the parts. The P-40F and L were used in Africa, Italy, and the Pacific. These Fs and Ls were most well-known during the Torch Allied Landing in Africa. Two of them with US markings, the third one as flown by the British. Two of them with US markings, the third one as flown by the British.

The plastic in the kit

SIAI-Marchetti SF-260EA/D/EU ‘ Late Bulged Canopy Type’

by Special Hobby

1/72nd Scale

Product Code: sh72433

The SF-260 is an Italian training, sports and aerobatic aircraft which can be found all around the globe. It was used in Europe by both the Irish Air Corps as well as the Italian and Belgian air forces. It was developed gradually and improved, which is why the newer versions are different from earlier ones. This is due to the ever increasing height of pilots. The parts in the kit

This later model differs from the earlier 2021 release number. This clear sprue has a larger canopy and is SH72418. The decal sheet brings markings for an Italian machine with nose art on either side of the fuselage, then a Belgian machine and also two eye-catching machines as flown in Latin America – an aluminium lacquer overall machine from Venezuela and white SF-260 from Uruguay with dayglo orange trim.

Interesting paint schemes

Spray masks to be available shortly (sold separately)

The plastic in the kit

60 cm Flak Scheinwerfer (Flak Sw-36) mit Sd.Ah.51 / Svetlomet 60N s vlekem

by Special Hobby

1/48th Scale

Product Code: 129-8069

The German WW2 60cm-diameter searchlight that was used both by the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht to illuminate the night skies during air raids and airfield runways to allow for safe landings. The plastic in the kit

60 cm Flak Scheinwerfer (Flak Sw-36) mit Sd.Ah.51 / Svetlomet 60N s vlekem

by Special Hobby

1/48th Scale

Product Code: 129-8069

The German WW2 60cm searchlight that was used by both the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht to illuminate night skies during air raid Direct 3D printing is used to create the complete kit including Sd.Ah.51 cart. Modelers can place the assembled searchlight on the cart, and then move it back to the desired position. Parts of the Kit

Humber LRC Mk.2 1:480001010by Special Hobby

1/48th scale