The Special Hobby Channel at iModeler (94 articles)

The Special Hobby Channel at iModeler

Special Hobby range of model kits

Items tagged with Special Hobby
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Special Hobby 1/48 Finnish Fiat G.50

by dale travis on November 29, 2019
in Aviation — 16 Comments

Following on the really nice G.50 prototype posted by Valter, here's a G.50 build I recently finished. The kit was done mostly OOB with Master gun barrels and aftermarket decals being the only additions. Model represents an aircraft piloted by [...]

1/48 Reggiane 2005 “Sagittario”

by dale travis on October 13, 2019
in Aviation — 22 Comments

Flying Machines kit represents an aircraft operating with Squdriglia 362, 22 Gruppo, 42 Stormo, Littoria June 1943. This is a limited run kit of good quality that has some nice resin parts for the cockpit and wheel wells. Modifications to the[...]

Kittyhawk Mk.III (Long Fuselage P-40K)

by Peter Ibes on September 11, 2019
in Aviation — 6 Comments

Another review kit that I build for Scale Aviation Modeller International (SAMI), that should appear in one of the upcoming issues of the magazine. In short: great kit with four very interesting decal options, light years away from the Czech sho[...]

Greek Master – Special Hobby`s 1/32 T-2 Buckeye

by José Pedro Pires on August 3, 2019
in Aviation — 26 Comments

The operational story of the Buckeye started in 1959. Since then, and until 2004, this North American Corporation design was the trainer that introduced all the Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers. In 1976, The Hellenic Air Force received t[...]

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[...]