Hobby Master Fills the Skies with Even More Aircraft
Hobby Master’s 1:48 scale US Navy Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair Fighter – “White 205”, LTJG Thomas “Lou” Hudner, VF-32 “Fighting Swordsmen”, USS Leyte (CV-32), December 4th, 1950
No one can fault Hobby Master for remaining aggressive. As other model makers continue to grapple with issues arising from the post-pandemic world, Hobby Master has kept its pedal to the metal, so-to-speak, by continuing to add dozens of new military models to the diecast aviation market. Of note, two 1:48 scale F4U Corsairs are part of their latest aerial armada, both based upon aircraft portrayed in the upcoming feature film Devotion. It is hoped that with Top Gun: Maverick continuing to do exceptionally well at the box office, Devotion will piggyback off of its success and tell the true life story of two naval aviators – one black and one white – caught up in the desperate struggle to protect beleaguered US forces then attempting to withdraw from North Korea in late 1950.
Here now, the rest of the May 2023 lineup Hobby Master plans to unleash:
Hobby Master’s 1:48 scale US Navy Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair Fighter – “White 211”, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, VF-32 “Fighting Swordsmen”, USS Leyte (CV-32), December 4th, 1950Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale Vietnamese People’s Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PMF “Fishbed” Fighter – 927th Fighter Regiment, Kep Air Base, Vietnam, 1979USMC Boeing Harrier II AV-8B Jump Jet – BuNo 165581, VMA-311 “Tomcats”, Afghanistan, 2013 {Low Vis Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:48 scale RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IXc Fighter – MK694, Flight Leftenant Jaroslav Dobrovolny, No.313 (Czech) Squadron, RAF North Weald, England, October 1944Hobby Master’s 1:48 scale RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IXe Fighter – ML407, Flight Officer Johnnie Houlton, No.405 (New Zealand) Squadron, France, September 1944Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale RAAF Boeing F-18A Hornet Strike Fighter – A21-29, No.75 Squadron, RAAF Base Tindal, Australia, 1990Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale RAAF Boeing F-18A Hornet Strike Fighter – A21-27, No.3 Squadron, RAAF Williamtown, Australia, 2016 [Anniversary Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II Ground Attack Aircraft – 81-0964, 21st Fighter Squadron “Gamblers”, 507th ACW, Shaw AFB, South Carolina, December 1991Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale Iraqi Sukhoi Su-25K “Frogfoot” Ground Attack Aircraft – 25616, 114 Squadron, Tammuz Air Base, Iraq, 2001Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF Convair F-106A Delta Dart Interceptor – 0-90062, 84th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Castle Air Force Base, California, 1970sHobby Master’s 1:72 scale French Dassault Rafale B Multirole Aircraft – Operation Chammal, Escadron de Chasse 14 “Gascogne”, 4e Escadre de Chasse, France, 2018Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale Ukrainian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PD “Foxbat-E” Interceptor – “Red 87”, 933rd FAR, 1995Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US Navy Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet Strike Fighter – 07/165792, VFC-12 “Fighting Omars”, NAS Oceana, Virginia, June 2021 [Aggressor Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US Navy Boeing E/A-18G Growler Electronic Warfare Aircraft – 168386, VAQ-138 “Yellow Jackets”, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, 2018Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale Russian Sukhoi Su-57E “Felon” Stealth Fighter – “Red 52”, 2022Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat Fleet Defense Fighter – 162689, VF-41 “Black Aces”, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), June 1991
