The Modelling News: Preview: The senior span U-2 & Katyusha from Hobbyboss in May

The senior span U-2R & Deuce-and-a-half Katyusha are the subjects of Hobbyboss' May items. We look at the sprues, colours, decals & build up kits in our preview...

Preview: The senior span U-2 & Katyusha from Hobbyboss in May

U-2R “Dragon Lady” Senior Span

by Hobby Boss

Model:81785

1/48th scale

U-2 built in complete secrecy by Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, the original U-2A first flew in August 1955. Early flights over the Soviet Union in the late 1950s provided the president and other U.S. decision makers with key intelligence on Soviet military capability.

The colour schemes presented in this kit

The decals in the box

Masks for the kit are provided

In October 1962, the U-2 photographed the buildup of Soviet offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, touching off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Model Length: 401.5mm / Wingspan: 653.1mm

Total of 8 sprues

The kit consists of over 130 parts

-Detailed fuselage & wing w/accurate design

- Photo etched parts included

The kit built by Hobbyboss modelers

GAZ-AAA with BM13/16 Katyusha

by Hobby Boss

Model: 84572

1/35th scale

In 1942, the Russian military engineers were urgently searching for suitable BM-13-16 "Katyusha" rocket launcher chassis as addition to and substitution for their own, by now more and more obsolete ZIS-6 truck. Therefore, in the course of this year, they tested and deployed no less than 9 Lend-Lease truck chassis, partially presented here, among them the GMC CCKW-352, better known as "Deuce-and-a-Half" or "Jimmy".

The colour schemes presented in this kit

The decals in the box

Masks are provided for the transparent parts of the kit

CCKW Out of more than half a million produced from 1941 throughout the war, with all kinds of bodies, with the short 145in. and the long 164in. wheelbase, with open and closed cab, with and without winch, the Russians received only 6,700 pieces.

-The parts & sprues of the kit