Hobby Master Jump Starts our May Arrivals

Like a dead car battery waiting for a boost from a passerby, we’ve been lollygagging around our diecast garage for the past several weeks waiting for anything new to arrive. Well, I can happily report that the May shipment of Hobby Master products are now on their way to us, which includes, among other things, an F-16 painted in an adversarial “ghost scheme” designed to mimic some of the latest aircraft rolling off the Russian assembly line. Unfortunately, all of the “ghost scheme” F-16s have already been spoken for so we’re keeping our fingers crossed that Hobby Master gets around to releasing a second version of this popular scheme sometime in the not-too-distant future. Here now the list of aircraft expected to arrive by the end of this week:

HA0173 – US Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless Dive-Bomber – Lt. Richard Best, VB-6, USS Enterprise (CV-6), June 4th, 1942 “Battle of Midway” (1:72 Scale)

HA0174 – US Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless Dive-Bomber – Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky, USS Enterprise (CV-6) Air Group Commander, June 4th 1942 “Battle of Midway” (1:72 Scale)

HA4210 – USAAF Douglas A-20G Havoc Medium Bomber – “Little Joe”, 389th Bombardment Squadron, 312th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force, Early 1945 (1:72 Scale)

HA1328 – USAF Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II Ground Attack Aircraft – 66th Weapons Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, April 2005 (1:72 Scale)

HA4519 – USAF Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle Multi-Role Fighter – “Billy the Kid”, 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron “Bold Tigers”, April 2019 “Operation Inherent Resolve” (1:72 Scale)

HA6104 – Russian Sukhoi Su-25SM “Frogfoot” Ground Attack Aircraft – “Red 25”, Latakia AB, Syria, November 2015 (1:72 Scale)

HA6105 – Russian Sukhoi Su-25SM “Frogfoot” Ground Attack Aircraft – “Red 06”, Ramenskoye (Zhukovsky), Russia, August 2012 (1:72 Scale)

HA4611 – USMC Lockheed-Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter – 169164, VMFA-121 “Green Knights”, Iwakuni, Japan, 2018 [Low-Vis Scheme] (1:72 Scale)

Still no word as to when HA5008, a 1:72 scale US Navy Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler Electronic Warfare Aircraft – 160432, VMAQ-2 “Death Jesters”, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, is expected to arrive since its reportedly making the trek to our distributor via air mail as opposed to surface transport. Could be May or it could be delayed til June.