TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) Back in 2006 a new Diecast company formed after the parent company of then Corgi (Before Hornby owned them) had business problem declaring chapter 11 the USA, The factory was developing a new line of Diecsast models for the US market for Corgi. The factory then formed its own brand name Hobby Master to use the tooling in development, these tooling were offered to all the major UK established diecast importers, but at the time turned down by them as they could not see any potential in a range trying to compete with Corgi, which at the time was dominant, but also in trouble. By good fortune Gary's Models the forerunner of Tiger Hobbies took a chance on the first six 1/72 tooling's and our first imports landed in August 2006, these were 1/72 F6F Hellcat, SBD Dauntless, JU87G Stuka, Mig 21, TBM Avenger, and the F104 Starfighter. Every month since August 2006 Hobby Master have delivered into the worldwide market 10 to 20 releases every month without fail, and the range is now the largest quality diecast Aircraft range possible outselling Corgi worldwide by a factor of at least 10. Below are the next 5 months release due into the UK for the diecast collector. Yet you will not find these in the run of the mill hobby shops, but we have a band of dedicated specialist diecast sellers working hard to look after UK Collectors. Not every release will sell in numbers in the UK Market, as HM have lots of world wide distributors so all the eggs are not in one basket, but our sellers have a vast choice. One subject sums up Hobby Master the 1/72 F4 Phantom II, with over 100 releases of either J, C,D, E,F and G plus F110 Spector, and well over 100,000 world wide sales, and we have not even touched the UK versions. Link to pictures of all the HM F4 Releases. http://www.hobbymastercollector.com/1-72F-4.html If you are a diecast seller and not selling HM you are really missing a trick. Due Middle of Jan 2019 1/32 Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" BuNo 3315, Black 16 of Scouting 71 "VS-71", USS Wasp (CV-7), August 1942 EARLY JAN 2019 £184.00 HA0210 1/48 FW 190A-4 Hauptmann Egon Mayer, Cruppenkommandeur III./JG 2, Cherbourg-Theville, Feb 1943 EARLY JAN 2019 £74.00 HA7424 1/72 Su-35 Flanker E 01104, Akhtubinsk, 2012 EARLY JAN 2019 £119.99 HA5705 1/72 Japan F-2A Jet Fighter Misawa AB 2016 "3 Squadron 60th Anniversary" EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 1/72 HA2716 McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II 155854, VF-84, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, circa 1972 EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 ha19004 1/72 Grumman F-14A Tomcat "Delores" 158612, VF-41, USS Enterprise, Oct 2001 EARLY JAN 2019 £130.00 1/72 HA5218 F/A-18C "30th Anniversary" 164630, Naval Air Depot, San Diego, 14th Nov 2008 to early 2009 EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 1/72 HA3525 CF-188 Hornet "NORAD 60th Anniversary Scheme", 2018 EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 1/72 HA3542 F/A-18C Hornet J-5017, Staffel 17, Swiss Air Force, Emmen Air Base, 2018 EARLY JAN 2019 £87.98 HA3599 1/72 Lockheed F-16D Fighting Falcon 335 Squadron, Hellenic Air Force "2018 NATO Tiger Meet", 14th May, 2018 EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 HA3865 1/72 Lockheed F-16C Fighting Falcon 505, 343 Sqn. "Asteri", 115 Combat Wing, Crete EARLY JAN 2019 £79.99 HA3870 1/72 British Centurion Mk.5 "Nasser's Nightmare!" 6th Royal Tank Rgt., Port Said, Dec 1956 EARLY JAN 2019 £31.99 HG3512 1/72 Australian Centurion Mk.5/1 169039, C Squadron, 1st Armd. Rgt., RAAC, Vietnam, 1971 EARLY JAN 2019 £32.99 1/72 HG3513 Achilles IIC 75th Anti-tank Reg., Royal Artillery, 11th Armoured Div., Belgium, winter 1944-1945 EARLY JAN 2019 £27.99 1/72 HG3422 Lockheed Martin F-16AM 1601, Romanian Air Force, 2017 EARLY JAN 2019 £72.00 HA3859 1/72 Lockheed Martin F-16BM 1610, Romanian Air Force, 2017 EARLY JAN 2019 £72.00 HA3860 DUE EARLY FEB 2019 1/48 Spitfire Vb RF-D/EN951, flown by Sqn. Leader Jan Zumbach, 303 Sqn., RAF, summer 1942 END OF JAN 2019 £72.00 HA7850 1/48 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat "Battle of Midway" White 23, flown by Lt. Cdr John Thach, VF-3, USS Yorktown, 4-6 June 1942 END OF JAN 2019 £79.99 HA8902 1/48 BF 109E-4 "Marseille" 1.(J)/ LG 2, France, Sept 1940 END OF JAN 2019 £79.99 HA8706 1/72 Lockheed F-117A "Gray Dragon" 53 TEG Det 1, 53 WG, USAF, Holloman AFB, 2004 END OF JAN 2019 £99.99 HA5804 1.72 F/A-18E Super Hornet 166957, VX-9 "Vampires", 2018 END OF JAN 2019 £110.00 HA5109 1/72 McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II 7499 "The end of the Film", 348 TRS, Hellenic Air Force, 2017 END OF JAN 2019 £81.99 HA19007 1/72 F-110A Spectre USAF TAC, Langley AFB, 1962 END OF JAN 2019 £81.99 HA19005 1/72 Lockheed F-16C Block 52+ 4061, 6th Squadron, Polish Air Force, April 2016 END OF JAN 2019 £79.99 HA3866 1/72 POLISH F16 END OF JAN 2019 £79.99 HA3899 Lockheed F-16D Block 52+ 4077, Polish Air Force, August 2016 END OF JAN 2019 £79.99 HA3867 1/72 BF 110E-7 Trop 3U+OR, 7./ZG 26, Libya 1942 END OF JAN 2019 £69.98 1/72 HA1815 Sd. Kfz. 7 German 8 Ton Half Truck WL605030, WWII END OF JAN 2019 £31.99 HG5004 1/72 Sd. Kfz. 7 German 8 Ton Half Truck WL-427172, WWII winter END OF JAN 2019 £31.99 HG5006 1/72 Su-34 Fullback Fighter Bomber Red 03, Russian Air Force, Syria, Jan 2015 END OF JAN 2019 £115.99 HA6301 1/72 Su-34 Fullback Fighter Bomber Red 03, Russian Air Force, Syria, Jan 2015 END OF JAN 2019 £119.99 HA6301A End of Feb 2019 1/72 Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II 101, VFA-101 "Grim Reapers", CAG Bird, 2013 END OF FEB 2019 £99.99 HA6201 1/72 Lockheed F-22 Raptor 05-4086, 95th FS, RAF Lakenheath, April, 2016 END OF FEB 2019 £99.99 HA2819 1/72 AH-64D Longbow ZJ171, British Army Air Corps, Cosford Airshow 2013 END OF FEB 2019 £83.99 HH1203 1/72 AH-64D Longbow 2067, 120th Sqn., RSAF, 2016 END OF FEB 2019 £95.99 HH1204 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet M45-02, TUDM (Royal Malaysian Air Force), 2015 END OF FEB 2019 £83.99 HA3541 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet BuNo.164699, VMFA(AW)-224 "Bengals", 2009 END OF FEB 2019 £87.98 HA3543 1/72 Lockheed F-16A Fighting Falcon 79-0403, New York ANG/174th TFW, Saudi Arabia, Operation Desert Storm, 1991 END OF FEB 2019 £81.99 HA3868 1/72 Northrop F-5E Tiger II 00312, 7th FTW, ROCAF, 2018 END OF FEB 2019 £69.98 HA3333 1/72 Northrop F-5F Tiger II 830121, 7th FTW, ROCAF, 2018 END OF FEB 2019 £72.00 HA3334 1/200Space Shuttle Endeavour, OV-105, Dec. 4, 1998 END OF FEB 2019 £77.99 HL1404 1/200 Space Shuttle Discovery, OV-103, Oct. 29, 1998 END OF FEB 2019 £77.99 HL1405 1/72 M60A1 w/reactive armor USMC 525012 "Operartion Desert Storm" END OF FEB 2019 £36.99 HG5606 1/72 German Tank Destroyer Marder III near Stalingrad, 1943 END OF FEB 2019 £29.99 HG4109 END OF MARCH 2019 1/48 P-40B Warhawk flown by 2nd Lt. George Welch, 47th Pursuit Squadron, 15th Pursuit Group, Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii, ,1941 end march £81.99 HA9201 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18F Super Hornet VFA-41 Black Aces CAG, USS John C. Stennis, US Navy , 2012 end march £112.00 HA5111 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 84-0027, USAF 493th FS, RAF Lakenheath, 2014 end march £90.00 HA4560 1/72 Sea Harrier FA.2 ZH809 No. 899 NAS "Admiral's Barge" , 25 Years Anniversary Special, England, 2004 end march £69.98 HA4104 1/72 Lockheed F-16C Block 52 92-3911, 157th FS/169th FW, South Carolina, McEntire JNGB, August 2015 end march £81.99 HA3869 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II BuNo.155510, VF-102 Diamondbacks, USS Independence (CV-64) , 1976 end march £81.99 HA19006 1/72 Grumman F-14A Tomcat "MI-8 Killer" 162603, VF-1 "Wolfpack", 1991 end march £130.00 HA5224 1/72 Douglas A-4E Skyhawk 300/AH, VA-163, USS Oriskany, War of Vietnam end march £72.99 HA1429 1/48 Hurricane IIC BBMF PZ865 end march £72.99 HA8651 1/72 AV-8B+ Harrier II BuNo 165584, VMA-311, Feb 2012 end march £69.98 HA2622 1/72 Grumman F-14A Tomcat 162698, VF-14 Tophatters, 80th Anniversary, 1999 end march £123.98 HA5214 1/72 MIG-25PD Foxbat 1025th Aerial Squadron, Libyan Air Force, Benin 1981 end march £99.99 HA5603 END OF APRIL 2019 1/48 FW 190A-4 Commander of 6./JG 2 Oblt. Erich Rudorffer, North Africa, Spring 1943 end apr £79.99 HA7425 1/72 SWISS F5 Tiger II 55th Anniversary £72.00 HA3335 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II 20th Anniversary Phantom "First In Phantoms" BuNo.153777, VF-74, Oceana NAS, 1981 end apr £81.99 HA19008 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F-15J "Mount Fuji" 42-8838 "JASDF 50th Anniversary Scheme", 2004 end apr £97.99 HA4514 1/72 Su-34 Fullback Fighter Bomber Red 21, Russian Air Force, Syria, 2015 end apr £128.00 HA6302a 1/72 Su-34 Fullback Fighter Bomber Red 22, Russian Air Force, Syria, 2015 end apr £128.00 HA6302b 1/72 A-10C Thunderbolt II 78-0633, 190th FS/124th FW, Incirlik AB,Turkey,October 2016 end apr £90.00 HA1327 1/72 Su-27 Flanker B Red 93, Russian Navy Baltic Fleet, June 2017 end apr £117.99 HA6006 1/72 Su-27SK Flanker B 6006, 370th Fighter Division of Vietnamese Air Force, Phan Rang AB, Vietnam end apr £117.99 HA6007 1/72 MIRAGE 2000 END APR £95.99 1/72 HA1614 Mirage 2000-5 Waddington RAF Station, United Kingdom, 2002 Jan-00 £95.99 HA1614B 1/72 British A34 Comet Cruiser Tank South African Defense Force, 1960s end apr £34.99 HG5206 1/72 British A34 Comet "Iron Duke IV" T335104, HQ, 1st RTR, 7th Armoured Division, Germany 1945 end apr £29.99 HG5207 END OF MAY 2019 1/48 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat 46685, VC-12, USS Core, 1944 emd may £85.99 HA8903 1/48 Spitfire Vb Trop No.417 Sqn., BR487/AN-V, Tunisia 1943 emd may £83.99 HA7851 1/72 Grumman TBM-1C Avenger "Barbara III" White 2 of VT-51, USS San Jacinto, 1944 Lt G Bush emd may £85.99 HA1221 1/72 EA-18G Growler 168893, VAQ-141 "Shadowhawks", USS Ronald Reagan, Atsugi Air Base, 2017 emd may £121.99 HA5150 1/72 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A BuNo 162875, NSAWC 55, 2004-2006 emd may £90.00 HA3544 1/72 Grumman F-14A Tomcat BuNo 161616, VF-21 "Freelancers", USS Independence, CVW-5, 1994 emd may £131.99 HA5225 1.72 McDonnell Douglas F-15E "Strike Eagle" 88-1667, 391st FS "Operation Enduring Freedom" emd may £103.99 HA4509 1/72 MIG-21MT Blue 15, Dolgoye Ledovo, Russia, 1970s emd may £79.99 HA0194 1/72 US M60A3 West Germany, 1990s emd may £38.99 1/72 HG5608 US M60A3 ROC Army, 2007 emd may £38.99 HG5609 MID JUN 2019 1/32 Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat "Jolly Rogers" White 50, VF-17, USS Hornet, 1945 END OF JUNE £200.00 HA0307 1/48 Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 (P-40B) flown by Ft. Leader Robert 'R.T.' Smith, 3rd Sqn., Kunming, China, June 1942 END OF JUNE £81.99 HA9203 1/48 Hurricane IIc "The Last of the Many!" PZ865, 1944 END OF JUNE £76.00 HA8650 1/48 Hawker Hurricane IIc "Night Reaper" JX-E/BE581, No.1 Sqn., 1942 END OF JUNE £76.00 HA8652 1/72 Su-33 Flanker D Bort 67, 1st Aviation Squadron, 279th shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment, Russian Navy, Feb 2014 END OF JUNE £119.99 HA6401 1/72 CF-18 "2016 DEMO" flown by Captain Ryan "Roid" Kean, 2016 END OF JUNE £85.99 HA3550 1/72 B5N2 Kate flown by Lt. Cdr. Shigekazu Shimazaki, carrier Zuikaku, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th 1941 END OF JUNE £71.98 HA2011 1/72 Sea Harrier FA.2 "Operation Deliberate Force" No.800 NAS, Fleet Air Arm ,HMS Invincible, Mediterranean, July 1995 END OF JUNE £69.98 HA4105 1/72 Lockheed Martin F-35B BF-05, flown by Cdr. Nathan Gray, HMS Queen Elizabeth, 2018 END OF JUNE £85.99 HA4608 1/72 Lockheed F-35C Lightning II CF-01, US NAVY END OF JUNE £99.99 HA6202 1/72 Lockheed F-16A Block 15 TS-1608, TNI-AU "Indonesian Air Force", circa 2001 END OF JUNE £79.99 HA3861 1/72 Lockheed F-16B Block 15 TS-1601, TNI-AU "Indonesian Air Force", circa 2001 END OF JUNE £83.99 HA3862 1/72 Sd. Kfz. 7 German 8 Ton Half Track 10th Infantry Division, 1942 END OF JUNE £33.98 HG5007 1/72 M60A1 w/reactive armor USMC 50637 END OF JUNE £38.99 HG5607 1/700 USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) Ticonderoga Class guided missile cruiser END OF JUNE £76.00 HSP1002 1/700 USS Princeton (CG-59) Ticonderoga Class guided missile cruiser END OF JUNE £76.00 HSP1003 Edited January 18, 2019 by TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Given that the British model market is dominated by 1/72 WW2 aircraft, yet HM have only one such release in six months (and that Japanese, which is generally far from popular here), I think I can see why sellers are reluctant to give greater coverage to the range. Lots of nice stuff, true. I'm sure some will sell well, but as a range they are not exactly aimed at the UK, are they? Which is fine for the individual buyer with other tastes and plenty do like modern stuff or are willing to go a little exotic, but how many? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) Given that the British model market is dominated by 1/72 WW2 aircraft (replace with saturated), hence you go for the gaps in the market. Also not bothering to read the script it states Yet you will not find these in the run of the mill hobby shops, but we have a band of dedicated specialist diecast sellers working hard to look after UK Collectors. Not every release will sell in numbers in the UK Market, as HM have lots of world wide distributors so all the eggs are not in one basket, but our sellers have a vast choice. Further to this HM have limited WW2 Tooling as this is fairly well covered by Corgi, and others, the growth market is 1/72 Jets and this is where HM leave Corgi behind. HM outsell Corgi even in the UK though some cannot accept that, but looking below at the range, and every month our container discharges 10 to 20 releases every month and have done since 2006. Some we may only import 36 to 48 units, other 300 to 600, but they all add up. Worldwide sales figures for 1/72 Jets is vast, with the following continuing to sell in good numbers. These are the jet that are in the current line up and are released throughout the year. F-100 F-101 F-102 F-104 F-105 F-106 F-111 F-117 A-4 A-10 EA-6 F-CK-1 F-4, J.C.D.E.F and G F-5 F-14 F-15C/E F-16 almost all variants F-18 F-18E/F EA-18G Harrier AV8B, B plus, GR5, GR7, GR9 Kawasaki T-4 MiG-15 MiG-17 MiG-21 MiG-23 MiG-25 Mirage Mitsubishi F-1/T2 Mitsubishi F-2 F-22 F-35A F-35B F-35C F-86 RA-5C Vigilante Sea Harrier Su-25 Su-27 Su-33 Su-34 Su-35 S-3 Viking T-38 Talon Edited January 17, 2019 by TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Further to this we have 1/72 Prop aircraft and 1/48 aircraft. B5N2 Kate Beaufighter Bf-110 Douglas A-1 Skyraider Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston Douglas A/B-26 Invader E-2C Hawkeye F6F Ju-87 P-39/P-400 P-40 SBD/A24 Banshee SB2C Helldiver T-6/Harvard/SNJ TBF/TBM Avenger 1/48 aircraft Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series Propeller Bf-109 Brewster Buffalo F3F F4F F4B-4/P-12 F4U Corsair Fw-190 Hawker Fury Hawker Hurricane Japanese Zero P-26 P-40 P-47 Thunderbolt P-51B/C Mustang P-51D Mustang Spitfire MK1, MKII MK Va MK Vb MK Vb Trop, MK IX, MKVIII, MK XI, MK XVI, MK XVIII, MK XIX Stearman/Kaydet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Where to buy Sample of some of our larger sellers, (Others to be added) Flying Tiger Models Limited https://www.flying-tigers.co.uk/?s=hobby+master&post_type=product JUMBLIES MODELS http://www.jumbliesmodels.com/search/hobby-master ANTICS https://anticsonline.uk/N431/N1340_hobby-master-diecast-aircraft-model/index.html IAN ALLAN BOOKS https://www.ianallanpublishing.com/ RM TOYS https://www.rmtoys.co.uk/search?q=HOBBY* MASTER*&type=product Aviation Retail direct (ARD) http://www.aviationretaildirect.com/search.php?search_query=HOBBY+MASTER PLANE CRAZY https://www.planecrazy.biz/models/non hobbymaster.php AIRBASE 1125 https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/airbase1125/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 On 1/16/2019 at 1:43 PM, Graham Boak said: Given that the British model market is dominated by 1/72 WW2 aircraft, yet HM have only one such release in six months (and that Japanese, which is generally far from popular here), I think I can see why sellers are reluctant to give greater coverage to the range. Lots of nice stuff, true. I'm sure some will sell well, but as a range they are not exactly aimed at the UK, are they? Which is fine for the individual buyer with other tastes and plenty do like modern stuff or are willing to go a little exotic, but how many? On 1/16/2019 at 10:38 AM, TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED said: Every month since August 2006 Hobby Master have delivered into the worldwide market 10 to 20 releases every month without fail, and the range is now the largest quality diecast Aircraft range possible outselling Corgi worldwide by a factor of at least 10. Considering Graham's comment, does HM outsell Corgi by a factor of at least 10 in the UK? As a bit of general interest for readers, Corgi and Airfix both come under Hornby. Corgi make pre-assembled and painted metal diecast planes. Some of their new releases are based on Airfix kits (no surprises there ) and examples include P-51D, P-40B, Bf 109E It's suspected the new Corgi British F-4 Phantom is based on the Airfix, however Corgi is releasing it in 1/48 scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 (edited) In the UK it is closer but every month 10 to 20 release arrive at Tiger Hobbies and is distributed to our trade customers, you are lucky to get 1 or 2 releases in a month from Corgi as far as Aviation goes. Individually a Corgi release may out sell a individual HM release, but when you are doing 10 to 20 every month without fail, these all add up so overall it is more than possible that HM outsells Corgi in the UK as far as pure model numbers go in Aviation. In the last 24 hours a container landed at Tiger Hobbies and discharged 2000 HM models over a number of releases, as well as Rye Field models and Star Ace figures , this happens every month (sometimes up a few more than the 2000 that landed yesterday). All the HM model have been distributed other than 50 of HA7850 1/48 Spitfire VB RF-D 303 Sqn, which is this months stock item. https://www.tigerhobbies.co.uk/Hobby-Master-HA7850-1:48-Supermarine-Spitfire-MK-Vb-RF-D-303-Polish-Sqn?search=HA7850 For the last 12 or so years we have been call Bull sh*tters by certain folks who will not accept what as been going on in the UK diecast aviation market, and it is as if we and HM do not even exist. Edited February 7, 2019 by TIGER HOBBIESLIMITED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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