Special Hobby range of model kits
The Special Hobby Database at iModeler
234 articles
1/48 Loire-Nieuport 40, “French Stuka”
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 [...]
1/48 Flying Machines Fiat G.55
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. [...]
1/48 Special Hobby CA-12 Boomerang
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 [...]
Special Hobby 1/48 Bücker Bü 181.
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
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 [...]
Special Hobby D-558 Skyrocket
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 [...]
1/48 Special Hobby Meridionali Ro.57 Prototype
I wanted to do the prototype because I liked the "poached egg" scheme as opposed to the standard green and grey of the production planes. As produced, the Special Hobby kit represents an Ro.57 bis, so modification needed to be [...]
1/48 Special Hobby Fokker D.XXI
Additional parts made to enhance the model: cockpit door with locking pins and hinges, clear vac formed opening hatch, improved cockpit detail, added a Townend ring for inside front of the engine cowling and separated the elevators with [...]
Finally Something Finished!
My first completed kit for the year, I present a Special Hobby 1/72 CAC C-3/5 Wirraway.
On the whole this was an enjoyable build. It was a pretty easy kit especially for a short run model. The only issue for me was that the exhausts [...]
My first article here!
Hello everybody!
I am following iModeler for the last 2 or 3 months now. So, I thought I should participate, too.
I do especially appreciate your DAILY NEWS thread! A lot of unknown pictures and impressive facts - brief and [...]
