Finished model underside

J-15 Chinese Navy – Limited Edition

Lower wing sprues

Nakajima C6N1-S Night Fighter Saiun (Myrt) Limited Edition

Finished Model

Focke-Wulf Ta-152C1/R14

Mufflers

Vosper MTB 74 with Crew- Part 2

M8A1

M8A1 Landing Mat

Cockpit

Messerschmitt Bf109E Sept. 1940

Special Hobby F-84F Mask Set

F-84F Thunderstreak

8

OV-10A USMC Light Attack Aircraft

Finished

C.S.S. Hunley Civil War Submarine

Lancaster Right Side

Lancaster B Mk.1 'No.617 Squadron Special Mission'

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Package Front

Brick Street w/ European Tram Rails
Review Author
Bill O'Malley
Published on
June 18, 2021
Company
Tiger Werke
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$20.00

Tiger Werke

Tiger Werke is a small company under new ownership that manufactures and distributes scale resin items. Their product line includes paved and cobblestone street sections, figure bases, building fronts, roadside shrines, fountains, and armor and aircraft bases. They also have storage and accessory sets for Allied, German, and British vehicles.

Box Art

P-3A Orion
Review Author
Keith Gervasi
Published on
July 23, 2020
Company
Atlantis Model Company
Scale
1/115
MSRP
$21.99

History

The P-3 Orion was designed for use by the US Navy as a submarine hunter and replaced the Neptune. The P-3 was nearly twice as fast as the Neptune and its range increased by almost 60% over that of the P2V. The first Orion was delivered to the US Navy Squadron VP-8 in July 1962 and within six months this unit was fully equipped with P-3's. This kit is a reissue of the old Revell kit that was first released in 1965.

What’s in the Box

Upon opening the box you will find a lot of white plastic, 48 pieces, attached to parts of sprues. The detail is raised and there are many rivets, also there is a lot of flash, pin marks and some sink marks to boot. (Face it, some of us that are this old OR OLDER have some of these same issues!) The decal sheet is printed cleanly and in register and you get a 4 page fold out for instructions.

Cover

Images of War, The Phantom F-4

Book Author(s)
Martin B. Bowman
Review Author
Doug Hamilton
Published on
July 23, 2020
Company
Pen & Sword
MSRP
$24.95

The McDonnell/Douglas F-4 Phantom is arguably one of the best all time fighter aircraft ever made. Developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter aircraft the Phantom saw a large number of variants for the Navy, Air Force and a host of foreign users. This book tells that story in a concise, well written and interesting manner.

Written by British author Martin B. Bowman the book The Phantom F-4 is a soft bound volume that contains 144 pages in four chapters in addition to acknowledgement and introduction sections. There are 120 black and white photos throughout. Brought to us here on this side of the Atlantic by Casemate Publishers the color cover, by Dominic Allen features two German Phantoms, two Marine birds and two in flight photos.

Front Cover

Lockheed P-38 E/F/G Lightning Photo Reference Guide
Book Author(s)
Richard Marmo
Review Author
Michael Reeves
Published on
July 20, 2020
Company
Scale Publications
MSRP
$3.99

What’s Inside

This is my first exposure to this series of photo reference guides and I kind of like the format. There is a brief one page Introduction and explanation of the format- and a reasoning of why this particular volume- which ties in to Tamiya’s recent release of the P-38 F/G. From there we get right to the meat of the guide- the many photos.

Mr. Marmo gives a brief explanation of how to navigate the photo thumbnails and then you’re set free. When you click on a thumbnail, you are brought to a whole page version of it, complete with a caption explaining what you’re seeing and a credit reference for where the photo originated from.

Tornado IDS/ECR
Book Author(s)
Federico Anselmino, Giancarlo Gastaldi Contributor(s) : Claudio Col, Mauro Cini
Review Author
Michael Novosad
Published on
July 15, 2020
Company
Aviation Collectibles

Background and History

Thanks to Wikipedia

The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin engine, variable-sweep multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (interdiction/strike) fighter-bomber, the suppression of enemy defenses, Tornado ECR (electronic/combat/reconnaissance) and the Tornado ADV (air defense variant) interceptor aircraft.