For years the only way you could get an AH/MH-6 Little Bird in 1/48^th scale was to buy a Hasegawa Hughes 500 and a CMK conversion set. This was expensive and sometimes hard to find. Now, thanks to ICM, we can build both kits out of the box. This review is about the MH-6J.

Inside a sturdy cardboard box with a cover are two light grey plastic and one clear plastic. They are beautifully rendered with no flash. The fuselage has some of the nicest raised rivet detail that I’ve ever seen. Very in scale. This is a good/bad thing. Good in that you can see it is there, but bad when filling the seams and sanding. You can’t replace any lost detail with decal film because it is so petite. There is also a decal sheet with markings for two Little Birds. The instructions are beautifully presented on 12 high-quality pages in a booklet, that are easy to understand. You will have to be familiar with very small parts as there are plenty of them in this kit.

Scale Aircraft Conversions (SAC) provides resin and white metal parts for scale model aircraft, most of which are drop-in landing gear replacements. Their standard packaging is a card-backed blister pack that should protect the parts, though one gear leg in one set was slightly bent went I opened the package.

The superb DBMK 1/32 Sea Fury kit was released earlier in 2026 and these sets from SAC are direct copies of that kit’s landing gear, including the main gear legs and various attached and associated parts. The early set, 32199, depicts the original Sea Fury landing gear that featured the Hawker standard landing gear leg, while the late leg, as depicted in set 32198, had an extra oleo section to better cope with shearing forces in cross-wind landings, and to help damp bouncing on landing.

Originally published in 2007, the revised edition was recently issued in 2026. The book's content is well sequenced, beginning with the battlecruiser's design history, the careers of the 3 famous battlecruisers HMS Renown, HMS Repulse and HMS Hood, a comprehensive review of all the well known scale models of these famous ships produced to date, a well photographed model showcase in various scales, five WW2 camouflage schemes for the 3 ships, a summary of modifications and refits for each ship documented by photos, line drawings and a selected reference.