Hobby Master New Tooling - B-24 Liberator and M18 Hellcat

[gouchy]

Stated for December release,

1/144 scale B-24 Liberator

http://www.hobbymastercollector.com/HA9100.html

1/72 scale M18 Hellcat

http://www.hobbymastercollector.com/HG6001.html

I've always wanted to get a Corgi B-24 in 1/72 but can never find my preferred scheme "Strawberry Bitch" at a good price, I may have to settle for 1/144 scale and get more choices

Dear Hobby Master, yo gotta slow down on releases my friend, I can't keep up

[EnemyAce]

Hellcat...YES!!!

And someone needs to tell them that they should look at getting into 1/144 WWI aircraft. Nexus/Ares Games has done very well in that era, and there's a big Wings of War market that needs to be fed.

[tmanthegreat]

Awesome to see them doing the M-18, another one of my favorite armored vehicles. Should be fantastic with the open-topped turret.

Also, really cool to see HM getting into the 1:144 aircraft market. While there are a ton of offerings in that scale by Dragon, Corgi, and others already, HobbyMaster is the emerging leader in quality diecast products. If the quality is there that goes into most of their 1:72 and 1:48 pieces, the B-24 should be great

[snake]

Not too interested in a 1/144 B-24. Will stick with my Corgi ones in 1/72.

Only aircraft I have in 1/144 are ones not done in 1/72. Three Corgi B-52's, a Corgi AC-130, and my only civvie. Bristol Britannia.

Some nice releases in the latest HM lineup. Several F-18's, the first F-106, another F-102, yet more F-4's, 1/48 P-51, etc.

HM sure is pumping out a lot of releases the last couple of years.

Good to see, but impossible to keep up.

[Panzer_M]

HM needs to be careful with the M8, only an few at the end of the production run had muzzle brakes. This was common postwar, but unusual during WW II until very late with only the last 700 of 2507 having a muzzle brake.

[Epap]

The new pictures of the HM B-24 mock up posted on the Hobby Master Collector website are most promising as it seems that HM will be using more plastic but at the same time giving us a lot more detail on this and, I hope, future models. Heres a picture of the upper surface of the mock up----more views are available on the HMC website:

[Epap]

And the bottom, with the bomb bay doors open:

[Panzer_M]

just spent the weekend picking up M-10s, i had Aachen/1st Infantry, added Corsair II, 1st Armoured/Anzio 1944, and one to go with the British, 3rd Infantry/Normandy 1944

just go in today the M8 HMC and new 234/3, still love that HM goes after the small and recce stuff, just need a 4th Panzer and 9th Panzer PzKpfw.II L for 2012 and some sdkfz.250s