The Special Hobby Channel at iModeler (90 articles)

The Special Hobby Channel at iModeler

Special Hobby range of model kits

Items tagged with Special Hobby
90 articles
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Vultee V1A American Airlines

by Peter Ibes on June 3, 2019
in Aviation — 6 Comments

This is the 1:72 Special Hobby Vultee V1A. I previously built this as a Spanish Civil War bomber, but wanted to depict it in its civilian guise as well. Other than its SCW stable mate this one was much more difficult to track down. The built we[...]

1/48 Special Hobby Breda 65 A80

by dale travis on April 8, 2019
in Aviation — 17 Comments

Aircraft from Aviazione Legionaria 1937, Spanish Civil War. If you have no experience with limited run kits don't try this one as your first attempt. Extra detail was added to engine and cockpit with kit guns replaced by Master barrels. I vacuf[...]

1/48 Blackburn Roc

by dale travis on March 26, 2019
in Aviation — 20 Comments

This is the Special Hobby kit and it shares quite a few parts with their earlier Skua kit. One problem this leads to is the Skua had two fuel tanks behind the pilot, the Roc one. SH give you the same parts for the Roc as in the Skua kit. I use[...]

1/72 Special Hobby P-40N

by Geoffrey Abreu on March 22, 2019
in Aviation — 12 Comments

I just finished this one earlier today. 1/72 Special Hobby P-40N painted with MRP paints. The only things added were the gunsight bead from master and Eduard steel seatbelts. The markings are from DK decals and represent a P-40N from the 418th N[...]

1/48 Loire-Nieuport 40, “French Stuka”

by dale travis on March 15, 2019
in Aviation — 7 Comments

Special Hobby kit of the LN 40 from Flight training School at St.Raphael summer 1942. The French designer of this aircraft, M. Pillon, actually faced charges by the Germans that his work was based on the Ju-87 by espionage. There are two major [...]

1/48 Flying Machines Fiat G.55

by dale travis on March 3, 2019
in Aviation — 14 Comments

1a Squadriglia, Cascina Vaga 1944. The Flying Machines kit was created by Special Hobby/ CMK and is the same plastic as the SH kit but comes with extra resin cockpit and photo etch parts and also parts to do the torpedo bomber version. They scr[...]

1/48 Special Hobby CA-12 Boomerang

by dale travis on February 26, 2019
in Aviation — 20 Comments

RAAF No.4 Squadron, New Guinea, 1943. This kit in my opinion has the best OOB cockpit of any Special Hobby I ever built. I still did a little more detail in the way of wiring and a throttle quadrant I fabricated. I also added more detail to th[...]

Special Hobby 1/48 Bücker Bü 181.

by David Paul Cope on February 24, 2019
in Aviation — 10 Comments

A nice little kit of the Bestmann trainer. A few fit issues but nothing too taxing. Shame the rear canopy has some stress cracking, but this isn't too noticeable.

1/48 Special Hobby He -115 B-1

by dale travis on February 23, 2019
in Aviation — 22 Comments

1./KFIGr. 406 Norway 1942 This is definitely NOT the kit to attempt as a first limited run project. It requires a large amount of prep work especially thinning the trailing edges of the flying surfaces and the floats are also areas of concern[...]

Special Hobby D-558 Skyrocket

by George R Blair Jr on February 22, 2019
in Aviation — 6 Comments

As I have gotten older, I have taken the pledge to avoid all things complicated and small. But sometimes I convince myself that I want to do something that definitely doesn't meet my "keep it simple" guidelines. And so it was that I saw this [...]