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Great work, definitely one of the best Hurriane models I've ever seen! Congratulations!

Absolutely fantastic work!!!

Very well done!

Strange, as the original English text I wrote on our blog is a bit different: "With the 1/48 Hurricane, we kind of reached the limit - the kit is beautifully detailed and has a perfect fit, but the work on it was very long and tedious, and the costs of its development and production of moulds were also very high, which must have had an impact on the final price of the kit." https://www.armahobby.com/blog/new-arma-hobby-1-48-airacobra-kit-pre-order It looks like machine translation by the google from Polish original, but has different meaning. In Polish I wrote "doszliśmy w pewnym sensie do ściany" which literally means "we reached the wall" but really means "we reached the limit", not "hit" or "crashed". So there is no worry that the Hurricane sales were bad. Best! G.

Three things: Our 3D printed resin parts are plug-and-play - replace exisiting plastic parts of the kit so there is no need to sand, cut and fit (except removal 3D-printed parts from the initial "sprues"). Printing of the ready 3D files does not demand being CAD designer - we do design, you print. Modern printers are cheap and have amazing quality. And it improves faster and faster.

Definitely you are allowed to print the purchased file on someone other's printer, doesn't matter if the printer is owned by your friend, modeller's club or custom paid service. We don't want to produce 3D-printed details at Arma Hobby for sale. Files - yes, but not the 3D-prints. It is kind of industry/manufacture on it's own and we do not want to invest money, space and time into such ability on industry level now. Of course we have some printers and use it for testing, research (and sometimes for small-stock production eg. for promotional sales too) but the 3D-printed sets for our normal-run kits (like 1/48 Sea Hurricane IIc or the new 1/72 P-51B Deluxe kit) we order at some other company specialising in 3D printing. Best! G.

Impressive! I've got less than half of it: IBG: Glowworm, Hotspur and one of the Hunts, Trumpeter: Ark Royal, Warspite 1942, Calcutta Flyhawk: Kelly AJM: Ardent/Acasta

Very impressive work, and you already have a big fleet, built and unbuilt ships. If you want to keep buying, you definitely should try the Flyhawk kits, they are way better than anything else available on the market in 1/700 Royal Navy ships in injected plastic. Really. Compare those destroyers from Tamiya, Trumpeter or IBG with this: https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/HMS-Kelly-1940.html

It depends on your need for precise accuracy. In general all RN destroyers between A and H classes are quite similar in idea and size, but E-class was slightly longer (100,3m vs. 98,5m) and wider and had different arrangement of smaller superstructures than A-B classes. Tamiya E-class is a good but simple kit and if you want to detail it, you still have to buy photo etched railings etc stuff. IMO conversion into B-class is possible, but demands some work (and complexity of the conversion depends more on your desire to detail the initial kit than on real differences between E and B). AJM is complex (detailed resin, a lot of small parts, a lot of photo-etched details). I have AJM Ardent/Acasta kit and it is very good but not easy kit. Here is the B AJM kit (but I suppose it includes also PE parts which are not shown, but I'm not sure): https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/B-Class-Destroyer-HMS-BLANCHE-HMS-BASILISK.html The A-class of AJM looks like this (here you for sure have full kit shown, including the extensive PE fret): https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/A-class-destroyer-HMS-ARDENT-HMS-ACASTA.html Tamiya E-class looks like this: https://www.mojehobby.pl/products/British-E-Class-Destroyer.html Here you also have IBG Hotspur 1941, the H-class is more similar to E than to B in arrangement, but has the same lenght as B (98 m), and the IBG kit is more modern and include good photo-etched parts: https://www.mojehobby.pl/products/HMS-Hotspur-1941-British-H-class-destroyer.html If you need some more info, feel free to ask - I researched the 1/700 RN destroyer kits to some degree.

Stunning work! True modelling!

At least two of these pics are genuine colour photos, they are in the IWM collections online: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN TUNISIA, APRIL 1943. Image: IWM (TR 869) IWM Non Commercial License THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN TUNISIA, APRIL 1943. © IWM (TR 866) IWM Non Commercial License

Check this, Arma Hobby has an illustrated article about her and her plane on the Armahobbynews Blog. We call these articles #armastory. https://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2020/10/28/lidya-litvyaks-yak-1-and-yak-1b-fighters/

What more we can say about the white Sea Hurricane "Nicki"? Nothing? Yes we can! Thanks to our invaluable @Troy Smith we were able - in the literally LAST MINUTE - make one important correction to the 40009 kit 1/48 Sea Hurricane Mk IIc! What? The squadron marking on the cockpit side, just below the canopy. Sure, we all know (and all kit producers, including us - Arma Hobby - in 1/72 kit) that it is white or yellow horse on the red shield. Really? Troy told us, that it is not a horse. And the shield is not red. What??? It is! Troy knows it from Ian Burgham, who is son of Lt. Allen Burgham"Nicki's" pilot! And he told it to us just in time we were able to stop decal printing and correct it! It delayed kit release for some time, but - for good reason! Initially we were not able to belive it (as EVERYBODY knows it was a horse!) - but there are photos! Nicki from 835 NAS: Two shields: 804 NAS tiger and 835 "Nicki's": 804 NAS Sea Hurricanes Mk IIc with tiger heads and pilots (Allen Burgham first from the right) And why it happened? Simple - in June 1943 most pilots of 804 NAS were sent to train on Hellcats, but one group, with their tiger marked Se Hurricanes, went to 835 NAS (composite squadron Swordfish/Sea Hurricane armed) and retained tigers on their planes! @Troy Smith many, many thanks!!! The decal is corrected! Also great thanks to Mr. Ian Burgham! Read more here: https://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2024/03/22/40009-a-cat-not-a-horse-last-minute-discovery/ G.

Very well done! Only one correction is possible - in 1939 Germans used simple crosses, all white.