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Tuesday, 6:02AM (GMT+9), 29 August 2017

Residents on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, wake to an emergency alert on their phones. The morning dark is washed from their faces as blue-tinged screens alight. Sleepy-eyed, in bedrooms or on early commutes, they stare disbelievingly at the message as around them alarm sirens begin their unearthly wail:

Missile launch. Missile launch. A missile has been launched from North Korea. Evacuate to a building or underground.

Though the country had over the previous decades slowly grown accustomed to the menace periodically emerging from its walled-off resting ground on the upper Korean peninsula, 2017 had been a year unlike any other.

ResKit is a Ukrainian manufacturer of high-quality aftermarket accessories for scale plastic model kits, specializing in finely detailed resin and 3D‑printed parts. Despite operating in a country affected by war, ResKit continues to design, produce, and deliver aftermarket parts from Ukraine, demonstrating resilience and dedication to both the hobby and its customers. ResKit.

ResKit has provided several resin detail sets for the ICM Tarhe and Sky Crane helicopters, including this landing gear set. The kit contains two main landing gear with weighted tires and the nose gear and tire. The parts are 3-D printed resin with brass pieces for the actual struts. Using brass for the axles and struts will greatly increase the strength of the landing gear assembly. Height of the landing gear can be adjusted depending on the load or whether the aircraft is airborne. I plan to hang ICM‘s fire tank on the helicopter so the additional strength will be helpful.

AMT’s Mr. Speed Funny Car includes parts to build a 1953 Studebaker funny car rear-engined dragster. This is not the same kit as the 2014 AMT Studebaker kit with “Mr. Speed” box-art. That earlier kit had a stock chassis included but no funny-car chassis. This new kit has only a funny-car chassis and can’t be built as a stock Studebaker. The box-art for the kit has no text over the image, so you could cut it out and display it as artwork. All the parts and decals are bagged to prevent loss or damage. The clear and chrome parts are bagged separately. The chrome parts have tissue paper between the trees to prevent scratching. There are a lot of optional and unused parts that you can save for use on other projects. The clear parts are provided in both clear and red versions and are sized for a stock roof or chopped roof. For tires, the builder has the option of assembling hard plastic parts or single-piece soft vinyl tires.