Hobby Master Claims, “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder”
Over the years, Hobby Master has chosen some interesting schemes for several of their aircraft models, occasionally taking up the challenge some collectors have made. While great for the discriminating collector, as a dealer, some times we’re left scratching our heads wondering if these eclectic liveries will sell and sell well, even when it adorns one of their best selling models.
Earlier today, Hobby Master picked up the latest gauntlet tossed down before them and announced plans to replicate “Toxic Death” – a F-117A stealth fighter that was stripped of its original blackened paint scheme only to bear what can best be described as graffiti before it was flown to its final resting place at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Frankly, we’re not sure how collectors are going to react to this one, unless, of course, they simply must own every version of Hobby Master’s long-running series of F-117 Nighthawks. Anyway, we’ve listed it on our web site, along with all of the other models they recently announced that are expected in February 2023. Lets see what everyone thinks about their most recent edgiest model.
Here now the rest of the lineup scheduled for February 2023:
Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US M48A3 Patton Medium Tank with Reliability Improved Selected Equipment (RISE) IR/White Light Spotlight – “Zig Zag Men”, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, Landing Zone Schueller, Vietnam, 1971
Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USMC M48A3 Patton Medium Tank with Reliability Improved Selected Equipment (RISE) IR/White Light Spotlight – “Death”, C Company, 1st Marine Tank Battalion, Vietnam, 1970
Hobby Master’s 1:48 scale USMC Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair Fighter – “White 18”, VMF-323 “Death Rattlers”, USS Sicily (CVE-118), 1951Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF General Dynamics F-16C Viper Fighter – 86-0272, 64th Aggressor Squadron “Aggressors”, 57th Wing, Nellis AFB, Nevada, 2017 [Aggressor Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II Ground Attack Aircraft – “75th Anniversary P-47 Scheme” 78-0618, 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard, May 2021 [Anniversary Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale French Dassault Rafale M Multirole Aircraft – 12 EF, Libya, 2011Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale German Panavia GR. Mk. 1 Tornado ECR All-Weather Bomber – Jagdbombergeschwader 32, Piacenza San Damiano, 1999Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF Boeing F-15C Eagle Multi-Role Fighter – “75th Anniversary of the 173rd Fighter Wing Scheme”, Oregon Air National Guard, Kingsley Field, Oregon, 2020 [Anniversary Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale USAF Boeing F-15C Eagle Multi-Role Fighter – 85-0114, 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Eglin AFB, Florida, 1991 [Low-Vis Scheme]Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US Navy Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet Strike Fighter – 166776, VFA-31 “Tomcatters”, USS USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77), 2011Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale US Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat Fleet Defense Fighter – 162692, VF-84 “Jolly Rogers”, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), August 1991Hobby Master’s 1:72 scale Russian Sukhoi Su-35S “Flanker-E” Multirole Fighter – “Blue 25”, 22nd IAP, 303rd DPVO, 11th Air Army, Khabarovsk, Russia, 2020sHobby Master’s 1:72 scale Egyptian Sukhoi Su-35S “Flanker-E” Multirole Fighter – “Black 9123”, August 2020 [Notional Scheme]
