1/32 He 162 A Salamander from Hobby 2000 (Revell rebox) - released

[barkhorn]

Released today. Two boxings based on Revell plastic, each contains Cartograf-printed decals and masks, the A-1 kit also includes 3D printed MK 108 gun barrel ends.

[dutik]

Nice! Lets pray for re-releases of the bang seat (Quickboost, LF) or seat/bulkhead-combo (CMK) too to fix the glaring error of the kit.

 

Regards

- dutik

[Troy Molitor]

Love the -162.  Any mention of price?  

[Juggernut]

Now if Exito would only resume shipping to the USA, I'd be all set.

[barkhorn]

2 hours ago, Juggernut said:

Now if Exito would only resume shipping to the USA, I'd be all set.

Doesn't Super-Hobby ship to US?

[Juggernut]

23 minutes ago, barkhorn said:

Doesn't Super-Hobby ship to US?

 

They may.  This is the first I'm hearing of this reseller. 

[Paul2660]

IN the past, I purchased the Super Hobby 2000 Fw-190D kit re-released from Hannets, however currently they are not shipping to the US.  

 

I actually still have the original Revell version of this kit. 

 

Hope that the shipping situation with Hannets is fixed sometime later this year., 

 

Paul 

 

 

[Shoggz]

Hannants HAVE resumed shipping to the US Paul..

 

From their home page:

 

"Hannants News: 05/04/26

The checkout for USA orders is open. The changes will mean a flat 10% tariff on all countries (except products made in the USA). Decals and books will still be 0%"

[Juggernut]

Well, I just tried to use Super Hobby for a 1/48 Hobby 2000 Ar234 (Hasegawa mold).  When I got to the shipping method, they only use FedEx so I had to cancel the purchase as I'm too cheap to pay additional fees to FedEx (can be up to $30 according to the FedEx site) on top of the 10% tariff they'll collect from me.   HARD PASS.  I'll wait for Exito to resume shipping via their usual methods. 

[cbk57]

If it is a rebox of Revell, it is on ebay for $65, someone is selling one with every aftermarket piece they can think of for $200.00.  All already in the U.S.  

[Fokkerguy21]

54 minutes ago, Juggernut said:

Well, I just tried to use Super Hobby for a 1/48 Hobby 2000 Ar234 (Hasegawa mold).  When I got to the shipping method, they only use FedEx so I had to cancel the purchase as I'm too cheap to pay additional fees to FedEx (can be up to $30 according to the FedEx site) on top of the 10% tariff they'll collect from me.   HARD PASS.  I'll wait for Exito to resume shipping via their usual methods. 

I just placed an order from Hannants a few weeks ago. No kits, just masks, decals (no tariff) and small parts. I religiously use PayPal only, but that required tracking and was about $35. I broke my rule and used a CC and it was $17 (non-tracked). Not sure what a kit would be.

[barkhorn]

1 hour ago, Juggernut said:

Well, I just tried to use Super Hobby for a 1/48 Hobby 2000 Ar234 (Hasegawa mold).  When I got to the shipping method, they only use FedEx so I had to cancel the purchase as I'm too cheap to pay additional fees to FedEx (can be up to $30 according to the FedEx site) on top of the 10% tariff they'll collect from me.   HARD PASS.  I'll wait for Exito to resume shipping via their usual methods. 

I'm afraid you may be waiting forever. Exito used the Polish national postal service which was subject to progressive deterioration during last 20 years, but things appear to got faster under the current government and this also affects the situation with shipping goods to US: AFAIK every national postal service in our neighbourhood (including Ukraine at war...) have already resumed shipping goods to US, but for Polish national post it's still too difficult. Furthermore, be prepared that when this finally happens, the relatively cheap shipping options you were used to get may only be a memory as since 1st January 2026 sending any goods via regular post's registered letters (inc. the Global Express service) is not legal due to a decision of the Universal Postal Union, so the only available method will be postal parcels - perhaps not a big difference if you order a few LSPs at once, but I'm quite certain that the Polish sellers often shipped stuff such as single kits, books, decals and aftermarket items as registered letters to make the shipping cost competitive, now this isn't possible. BTW, this applies to all international shipments, not only those directed to US, as I had already experienced when sending some books and decals to Hungary a few weeks ago - the cost of the parcel was roughly twice of what I paid for a similar parcel sent as a registered letter in December, before the big change...

Edited April 9 by barkhorn

[Juggernut]

Ok, this may have been visited before but is there any interest in U.S. distributors handling Hobby 2000 kits?  I seem to see one here and there but nothing regular.  I'm still after this  1/32 Fw190A-5

 

[barkhorn]

On 4/10/2026 at 1:36 AM, Juggernut said:

Ok, this may have been visited before but is there any interest in U.S. distributors handling Hobby 2000 kits? 

I'm afraid there hasn't been any progress in this regard.

Meanwhile, a wheel set was released today:

[Thunnus]

On 4/9/2026 at 12:53 PM, cbk57 said:

If it is a rebox of Revell, it is on ebay for $65, someone is selling one with every aftermarket piece they can think of for $200.00.  All already in the U.S.  

Guess who couldn't resist and picked up that all-inclusive He-162 bundle on EBay??? 

 

All of the Hobby 2000 color profiles show the same basic camo pattern... green on upper fuselage and upper port wing and brown on the engine nacelle and upper starboard wing. Is this plausible?