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I have decided to go for 1/48 for the first time, and bought a RPM's Ford T Ambulans M1917. Such a nice and cheap little gem from Great War.

Colour schemes are published with profiles in Arma Hobby store. 70035 Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc Expert Set Hurricane Mk IIc, BE500/LK-A, 87 Squadron RAF, Spring 1942. Pilot: S/Ldr Denis Smallwood. Hurricane Mk IIc, BE500/LK-A, 87 Squadron RAF, Operation Jubilee, Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Pilot: S/Ldr Denis Smallwood. Hurricane Mk IIc, Z3899/JX-W, 1 Sqaudron RAF, November 1941. Hurricane Mk IIc trop, HV560/FT-Z, 43 Squadron RAF, Maison Blanche, Algieria, December, 1942. Pilot: S/Ldr Michael "Micky" Roo 70036 Hurricane Mk IIc Model Kit Hurricane Mk IIc, LF331/WC-G, “Target For Tonight", 309 Squadron PAF, Peterhead, Summer-Autumn 1944 Hurricane Mk IIc, Z3092/QO-T, 3 Squadron RAF, Hunsdon 1941-42 70037 Hurricane Mk IIc trop Model Kit! Hurricane Mk IIc trop, HL885/AX-Z, 1 Squadron SAAF, Lt. Stewart “Bomb” Finney, LG142, Egypt, September1942. Hurricane Mk IIc trop, LD726/Y, 113 Squadron RAF, pilot: F/O Graham Skallam, Burma 1944.

I'm already here under no. 19. I have just bumped thread with ideas for others.

That Japanese one is Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarine - only two men to run theoretically proper submarine, which was transported to and from their target areas on the decks of larger Type C1 submarines. Usually "from their target" part did not worked out though. About Neger, from wikipedia: "About 200 vessels of this type were manufactured in 1944. The first Neger vessels entered service in March 1944. However, the Neger turned out to be very hazardous for its operator and up to 80 percent were killed. In return one cruiser, one destroyer, and three Catherine Class BAMS minesweepers were sunk in 1944 with the weapon". Well, basically it was two torpedoes, but one was supposed to go back. I know about this midget submarine type because first Polish cruiser, ORP Dragon, was damaged to the point she was soon scuttled by one.

A few ideas: IJN A-TARGET Type A Sydney Bay German Human torpedo "Neger" in 1/35 scale And in 1/72 scale

Mostly with different colours schemes, not a different aircraft variants. Different Hawks had different engines, cowling, armament and so on.

I guess that's a guess, but I have checked wiki and it have also September 1939 connection. Anyway, I doubt many boxes will follow, because Arma Hobby do not make multiple variants.

Polish pilots were flying on almost everything with wings and made by allies during WWII, so scope is quite wide here. Personally I guess time is coming slowly for some French planes, Morane-Saulnier MS-406C.1 or Caudron CR.714, plane so bad, that only Poles were crazy enough to fight in it. For the closest kit, I bet on RWD-14 Czapla, but I hope for RWD-13.

This company haven't resealed plastic kits so far, those helicopters are first. However Answer isn't completely new to the hobby, it was a paper kits company.

It is Sherman, but in 1/72 it is a SU-85. For me also S-400 missile system (Rus. C-400) in 1/72 is interesting, I hope for Turkish decals. Ship in 1/350 seems to be Delta IV-class submarines (Project 667BDRM Delfin).

I have, I bought RWD-8 kit for Estonian decals, and those were way too small and had wrong font.

I'm just repeating what Arma wrote on Facebook. Apparently air intakes in wings and radiator are different. More about may be in planned further articles on blog.

Under the announcement on Facebbok, Arma Hobby confirmed there will be no "razorback", because there is to many differences, and those are basically different aircraft. Also Bregun Yak-1b is a early type, when theirs is a late one.

I have the same problem with Indian TS-11, and the same solution, but can really be Mistercraft be trusted with accuracy of decals?

That's a surprise, but quite nice. I'm going to get one.

No, those are early GDR markings.

What I about ships? I would like to join with Chinese Type 091, NATO reporting name: Han class, the first Chinese nuclear attack submarine. As a first attempt to built nuclear submarine by China, it is apparently quite noisy and have poor radiation shielding.

According to post, kits in 1/72 are going to arrive earlier than expected, this year, probably after summer vacations.

Rather some freedom spreading in Iraq.

New Polish company decided to release new tool plastic kits of PZL W-3 Sokół helicopter. Firstly in 1/48 and then later in 1/72. Company have normal site, but it is empty now.

Thank you for explanation. About Fresco-A, I assume that Airfix will release MiG-17 in that variant later, because releasing slightly different variant seems to be their policy these days.

Do you maybe have plans to "update" MiG-17F Fresco-C decals, just for a new Airfix kit?

I have noticed a new future kit in 1/350 scale from Bronco appeared on Scalemates: Chinese NAVY Type 055 DDG large Destroyer I found a bit more by searching picture above in Google here (in Chinese)

I sing up. I have just bought this one:

I confirm again.