MPM Production have sent us details of their latest line up of Special Hobby kits:

"SH72282 Hawker Sea Fury Mk.11 FAEC 1/72 limited edition
Originally, the Sea Fury Mk.11s were the backbone of Batista´s Cuban Air Force. After the Castro´s successful communistic revolution, they formed the nucleus of the FAEC (later to be renamed FAR). Their successful intervention in the Bay of Pigs thwarted the contrarevolution attempt of non-communist forces supported by the CIA. This limited series model consists of two sprues with plastic parts, detailed resin parts and decal sheet for two Cuban machines.

SH48146 Heinkel He 115 Scandinavian Service 1/48
The German Heinkel He-115 floatplane won because of its performance the German Navy competition for a torpedo-carrying floatplane. It also set several records in its category in the pre-war times, and also because of this successes, foreign customers became interested in the plane. Sweden and Norway bought the Heinkel floatplanes before the war. While the Swedish machines were to have rather quiet service in colours of the neutral country, the Norwegian planes took part in the defense against German invaders in 1940. As a result, number of users increased of two states. Norwegian planes operated in two flights of three planes, the Nr.2 Flyavdeling and Nr.3 Flyavdeling. During the fighting, the Nr.2 Flyavdeling lost two of its He-115s (one was captured by the Germans, the other flew to Great Britain) and the last machine reinforced, together with two captured German Heinkels, the Nr. 3 Flyavdeling. After the surrender of Norway, one of the ex-German planes was used for spare parts and thanks to this fact, all but one of the remaining machines evacuated Norwegian airmen to Great Britain. The very last machine headed to Finland and was used there mainly to drop agents behind the front line, which also later became fatal to the machine. The model contains eight sprues of grey plastic, including the corrected floats, one sprue of clear parts, large photo-etched set and detailed resin parts. Norwegian machines were equipped with Browning MGs and Swedish with their Swedish licence-built version, and you can find both of them amongst the PUR parts. These detailed MGs were designed using the 3D technology.

SH72281 DH 100 Vampire FB Mk.52 "Over Northern Sky" 1/72
The Vampire fighter became of the greatest British export success in post-war period. Owing to its simple and sophisticated design, rather high performance and also due to favorable price, the Vampire became the first, or one of the first jet planes for many of countries. Amongst them were also Norway, Finland and Sweden (which had also developed their own SAAB 21 jet fighter, but Vampire was first in service). Highly detailed model in excellent quality (3D design and steel moulds) is spread in two frames accompanied with one sprue of clear parts. The decal sheet offers one Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish machine. The Norwegian and Swedish are camouflaged, while the Finnish one is in aluminium dope overall. There are in fact two decal sheets, the first containing the national and other markings, on the other sheet you can find full set of stencils for all three machines in their respective languages. We wouldn´t be able to prepare this stencil decals without help from modellers and historians from these three countries.

K72027 DH.100 Vampire FB Mk.5 Photo-etched Parts 1/72
For modellers, wishing to have their DH.100 Vampire FB. 5 model as detailed as possible, we have prepared this colour photo-etched set. It is intended for Azur A117, Special Hobby SH72281 and Xtrakit XK72008 models. The set offers instrument panel, seat harnesses and other interior and exterior details, in particular for the wheel bays.

SH72288 FMA IA-58A/D Pucará “Still Flying” 1/72
The Argentine FMA IA-58A Pucará ground-attack planes made themselves famous mainly during the Falkland War / Guerra de las Malvinas. Several versions were projected during their service that were to push their performance even higher. None of these proposed versions (single-seat IA-58C or Garrett TPE331 engines equipped version) ever reached series production. Recently the Argentine planes, as well as the Uruguayan ones celebrated their 30th anniversary of service. The Argentine Air Force is now having their Pucarás modernized to IA-58 D “Delta” version. The changes relate mainly to internal equipment of the machines. The 30th anniversary had an impact on the Pucarás markings.

In the model you can find three sprues with plastic parts in grey colour, one frame of clear parts, detailed resin parts, photo-etched set and decals for two Argentine and two Uruguayan machines. The modernized Argentine IA-58Ds are flying in austere grey camouflage, one of the depicted machines carries an anniversary stencilling on the tail consisting of a black condor and a number 30. Both of the Uruguayan planes that are on the decal sheet are in grey and green camouflage with light grey undersurfaces. And both of them are also carrying a Jabali (wild boar) nose art on their fuselages. One of them also wears stylized number 30 in colours of Argentine flag on its fuselage."

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