The Modelling News: Hobbyboss' new items of January 2024 - in plastic, art, colours & built up...

The navalized MiG-29K Fulcrum-D & a pint sized armoured train are the subjects of Hobbyboss' January items. We look at the sprues, colours, decals & build up kits in our preview...

Hobbyboss' new items of January 2024 - in plastic, art, colours & built up...

MiG-29K Fulcrum-D

by Hobby Boss
Model no: #81786

Model: 1/48th scale

Price: $128 USD on the HLJ Website

MiG-29K is an all-weather carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft being produced by Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RAC MiG). The aircraft is also offered in a two-seat operational trainer variation known as the MiG-29KUB. The MiG-29K/KUB aircraft are designed to operate from aircraft-carriers with a minimum displacement of 28,000t and airfields.

The colour schemes presented in this kit

Decal & painting instructions for the underwing stores...

The decals in the box

The aircraft has a length of 17.3m, height of 4.4m and a wingspan of 11.9m. The maximum take-off weight is 24,500kg. The Russian Navy ordered 24 MiG-29Ks in late 2009 for Kuznetsov Class heavy aircraft carrying cruiser. Deliveries of the MiG-29K for the Russian Navy began in 2010.

-The parts & sprues of the kit

Model Length: 353mm / Wingspan: 246mm

Total of 10 sprues

The kit consists of over 300 parts

-Detailed fuselage & wing w/accurate design

-Detailed cockpit

-Rubber tires

-Photo etched parts included

The kit built by Hobbyboss modelers

German Armored Train Formation BP-44 / Gun Car

by Hobby Boss

Model: #82954

1/72nd scale

Price $57 USD on the HLJ Website

The Panzerjagerwagen with Panzer IV turret and long 7.5-cm KwK cannon, were an important innovation of the BP 44 armor train type. It was the armored pursuit car replace by the earlier pusher car. That now gave the train an effective means of against Russian tanks. In this instance, a program of new construction had been planned in 1944 by German Army: 8 BP 44 armored trains.

The colour scheme presented in this kit