NEW: Special Hobby (Academy+) 1/72 RNZAF WW2 Harvard

[ZacYates]

Hi all,
To the delight of many over at Britmodeller (discussion here) Special Hobby is reboxing the Academy 1/72 Texan kit with correct injected canopy and resin bits to make a proper Harvard, as well as a selection of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan-themed decals that today I learned includes NZ932 in the green/brown/sky(?) with yellow sides scheme.

SH72447 Harvard Mk.II / IIA / IIB - box preview
March 23, 2021
The SH72447 Harvard Mk.II / II / A / IIB model, which we are preparing in a limited series, will have a box showing the full width of camouflage that the kit will offer. We aptly named it 'The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan'. These will be RCAF air forces - here Harvard used by Czechoslovak pilots, RAF - aircraft used by Poles, SRAF, RNZAF and RIAF. We hope that your choice will satisfy you. If not, you'll have to wait for the USAAF and US Navy Texans.

SH72447__SpecialHobby_krabice by Zac Yates, on Flickr
SH72447_Harvard_dec by Zac Yates, on Flickr

[Mustang51]

Love NZ932....my fav Harvard scheme of all

[ZacYates]

Mar 25, 2021 1:43:15 GMT 12 Mustang51 said:

Love NZ932....my fav Harvard scheme of all

Mine too!

When I was Googling for photos of NZ932 I was led back to WONZ!

Jan 29, 2011 21:58:31 GMT 12 NZ1009 said:

All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official:
NZ932 2-Oct 1944 Wigram Taxy accident

Jan 30, 2011 17:02:58 GMT 12 NZ1009 said:

Some more MKIIs - All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official:
NZ932

Nov 3, 2011 0:15:14 GMT 12 NZ1009 said:

All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official, comments from ADF Serials, accidents (up until 1956) from NZ Archives:
NZ932 Mk II 66-2745 Issued to NZ under Empire Air Training Scheme. Shipped to New Zealand on "Limerick" in May 1941 and assembled at Hobsonville. BOC 20 May 1941. To No.2 SFTS Woodbourne. Declared surplus on SR416/58 and sold by GSB tender number 7078 to Bennett Aviation Ltd., Te Kuiti for two hundred pounds. Price included Pratt and Whitnet R1340-ANI engine serial number 8747. Remains noted at scrapyard in Bexley, Christchurch in January 1962 prior to melting down.
NZ932 21-May 1943 Woodbourne Landed undercarriage up
NZ932 5-May 1944 Nelson Forced down, bad weather
NZ932 2-Oct 1944 Wigram Taxy accident

[ZacYates]

Special Hobby has posted all five decal/paint layouts from the upcoming 1/72 Harvard (link) but, come on, there's only one we really need to see:
SH72447-Harvard-D by Zac Yates, on Flickr

[Mustang51]

The only thing that I would like to see on that aircraft to make it 'perfect' is the radio mast

[tbf2504]

If you look carefully at the official photos of NZ932 above it has no radio mast. They all came later

[Mustang51]

I had noted that. Just my "preference" is for a Harvard 'with' a mast

[ZacYates]

It's out! Not sure who will have it in NZ and Aus, but you can buy it and see sprue photos here.