The next stage of Arma Hobby development starts Monday. It’s a big step and a great risk, the biggest in our company history. See what we have planned and do not miss an opportunity!
At the end of this week, we close sales of resin models and accessories. You will not be able to purchase Attack Squadron accessories or Arma Hobby resin models from Monday. Since that day, Arma Hobby has become a manufacturer of plastic models, no more resin production.
We know that for many of you it will be a big surprise. This is not a hasty decision. Over the last six months, we have been trying to develop plastic and resin lines in parallel. The experience of these struggles shows that we have to choose what to put in the effort. Efforts to design and market two different types of products are missing. We need to choose what company we want to be. We have chosen the harder way. We want to be a manufacturer of plastic models.
This year we plan to launch another new type of aircraft in December – this “surprise”, of course, the injection model. Next year – new model every quarter.
On Monday, models and resin accessories will disappear from our store. Orders submitted so far, should be dispatched by the end of the month, then close the foundry. Attack Squadron and Arma Hobby resin line and maybe Adalbertus figurines can be sold to other companies who want to continue their business. If this happens – we will inform you on our blog. If you are interested in purchasing, please contact 1@armahobby.pl.
Finally, we would like to thank all our customers and supporters. Thanks to your support from a small resin bait manufacturer, we have been able to develop into plastic models. We also thank our business partners: Hataka Hobby, Model Maker, Hauler and Rob Taurus. Together we have managed to create some good models and accessories!
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Agreed. Attack resin was amongst the top 3 resin producers and it is a shame that the promised resin kits never appeared – I was looking forward to new Bearcats and other post war types. Shame
I understand your decision. Better to be really good at one thing than halfway good at many things. I was able to grab all of your C-130J items as they are top quality!!!
Thanks for your products now I am looking forward to your new kits.
Hi, I am a huge fan of the C-130 Hercules and Italeri’s 1/48 kit. The model was pretty good in its day but the kit has never been properly updated and has always been a compromise of parts as Italeri have issued various versions of the model. Cutting Edge in the USA produced some nice noses for special operations and other versions, as well as skis, and Ron’s resins in Australia made late undercarriage sponson fairings and wheels. Paragon in the UK also made a nice set of wheels. All 3 of these companies have now stopped production. Since you started to produce your EXCELLENT 1/48 C-130 update sets I have purchased a number of each of them as insurance against you stopping production but I am still very saddened that you will not be continuing the range. A set of accurate C-130A engines, 3 blade props and longer under-wing nacelles would have been the ‘icing on the cake’ because many modellers (and the crew of ‘The First Lady’ AC-130A gunship at Fairford some years ago) do not know that the rear of the engine nacelles on the C-130A are different to all later versions. Good luck with your new… Read more »
Very sorry to hear you will stop producing resin kits. I have all of your PZL aircraft in 1/48 plus the F3F and Spitfire, they are all so well done. I wish you much success with your upcoming products, and hopefully they will be as interesting and well done as the resin kits! I will be watching!!
Dear Arma Hobby / Attack Squadron team,
I am very sorry to hear this and, personally, I am not sure whether it is a good decision, taking into account that your resin accessories are excellent, and your resin kits are very good (although not free from accuracy issues and some frustrating shortcomings such as defective decals).
Consider such 1/72 scale model kits as the Grumman F2F and the Kaman K-Max that you have produced in resin with exemplary quality: I am sure that, if done using injection-molding technology, the level of detail and the overall quality of fit would have been substantially inferior.
But here I am deliberately pointing at some of your tiniest models. It very well may be that you will surprise us all and produce new injection-molded kits without any decrease in quality or detail compared to your earlier full-resin kits.
However, as for the resin wheels, resin weapons and other accessories (exhausts, control surfaces, etc.), injection-molded plastic cannot, at least today, match the technology that we all call “resin” (although of course it isn’t actually “resin” now). Why stop manufacturing something that is well-designed and enjoys good demand?
Congratulations on your change to 100% injection-molded kits. I think this is a positive step, considering the high quality of your recent PZL P.7a.
Have you considered a 1/72 kit of the Yak-1M? This aircraft was used by the Polish air force as well as the Russian VVS. The only 1/72 Yak-1M is the very old and crude ZTS Plastyk Mikro 72, which is long overdue for replacement, but it keeps being reissued under different brand names, so someone must be buying it. Because of that, I believe a new, accurate, high quality kit would be popular. Good references exist, like the drawings by Zbigniew Luranc in the magazine Skrzydla w Miniaturze 2/91. These drawings were made with measurements taken directly from the only remaining Yak-1M (Yak-1b) in Saratov, Russia, so they can be considered to be very accurate.
I hope you will give my proposal some serious thought!
Thank you and best regards;
John Thompson