No stranger to the mobile rocket launcher category, Modelcollect announced their intent to resurrect the ignominious SCUD rocket that was the scourge of Coalition forces during the first Gulf War. Carried on a Soviet 9P117 mobile launcher, several variations of the SCUD are purportedly on the drawing board, although only two pre-assembled versions were announced thus far. Pictures are still in the offing and we’ll likely see these “scoot and shoot” replicas some time this summer.
While some companies struggle to get product to market on a regular schedule, Hobby Master does so like clockwork, pumping out loads of product for the discriminating collector. This coming September, they have another dozen or so items scheduled for release, spanning everything from helicopters to armored vehicles, piston driven aircraft to jet fighters. Here’s a rundown of what you can expect when school returns from recess:
US M8 Light Armored Car – “C-30”, Unidentified Unit, Ardennes Forest, December 1944 (1:72 Scale) #HG3812
US M20 Greyhound Light Armored Car – Unidentified Unit, Ardennes Forest, December 1944 (1:72 Scale) #HG3813
Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SMT “Fishbed” Fighter – “Blue 22”, Krasnodar Higher Aviation Training Facility, Soviet Union, 1980 (1:72 Scale) #HA0195
Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SMT “Fishbed” Fighter – “Blue 60”, 296 IAP, Soviet Union, 1980 (1:72 Scale) #HA0196
USN Grumman TBF-1C Avenger Torpedo-Bomber – “White 93”, VT-15, USS Essex (CV 9), November 1944 (1:72 Scale) #HA1222
Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23MLD “Flogger-E” Fighter – “White 55”, 120 IAP, Bagram AB, Afghanistan, 1989 (1:72 Scale) #HA5309
USAF General Dynamics EF-111A Raven Electronics Warfare Aircraft – ECS/48th TFW(P), Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia, Early 1991 [Low-Vis Scheme] (1:72 Scale) #HA3022
USAF Lockheed F-117A Stealth Fighter-Bomber – “Vega 31”, 7th Fighter Squadron “Screamin Demons”, “Operation Allied Force”, Kosovo War, 1999 (1:72 Scale) #HA5805
Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark Air Superiority Fighter – Aircraft Carrier Liaoning, 2017 (1:72 Scale) #HA6402
Taiwanese Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian Attack Helicopter (1:72 Scale) #HH1206
Republic of Korea Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian Attack Helicopter (1:72 Scale) #HH1207
