Underside
Bf 109E-7 trop Weekend
Front-right view
De Lorean - Back to the Future Part II
Factory back
Ruined Factory with Base
Left rear view
1913 Ford Model T Roadster
Finished model
Messerschmitt Me-262
Left Rear
USN F8-E "The Hunter"
F4F-4 Engine
Cactus Air Force Deluxe Set – F4F-4 Wildcat and P-400/P-39D Over Guadalcanal
Cockpit area
Airwolf
Left front
F-102A with Case X Wings
P47 & F86 together
P-47D & F-86E "Gabreski"
Decals 2
B-17G Flying Fortress "Flak Eater"
Misc Image 9
Leyland Retriever General Service
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CH-53 Seats Upgrade Set
Review Author
Paul R. Brown
Published on
August 4, 2020
Company
Reskit
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$9.80

This set provides a pair of replacement seats for the pilot and co-pilot of a CH-53 or MH-53 Super Stallion/Sea Stallion and includes seatbelts/harnesses, the tubular frame the seat is mounted on and what appears to be add-on side armor plates for each seat.

The seats and mounting frames are cast in light grey resin. The castings are very detailed and delicate, a little too delicate as I will discuss below. The seats include a lot of details on the seat backs that could be visible if you leave the main cabin door open. I compared the seats and the mounting frames to photos I found online and ResKit did their homework as it looks accurate and in scale. The casting includes a very tiny slot at the top of the seat that the upper section of the shoulder harness passes through, but be very gentle as the resin around the slot is very thin and it is very easy to break off the headrest section – trust me!

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Messerschmitt Me 209 Main Wheels
Review Author
Paul R. Brown
Published on
July 27, 2020
Company
CMK
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$4.25

This set provides a set of resin replacement main wheels for Special Hobby’s recent Me 209 kit. As expected from CMK, the wheels are very nicely cast with good detail including the bolts on the wheel hubs. The tread pattern on the tires is also very sharp and distinct.

The tires are easily separated from the pour stubs and the pour stub and any flash are easily removed and cleaned up as show in the attached photos.

I painted the wheels Tamiya NATO Black and the hubs Tamiya Black as I do other Luftwaffe aircraft wheels, but I will need to do some drybrushing to bring out the hub details as they sort of disappear under the black paint.

This is a nice set and presumably the wheels are drop on replacements for the kit wheels (I still need to pick up a Me 209 kit to use them on!).

Recommended.

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Our Route Has Been Changed
Review Author
Ben Morton
Published on
December 28, 2021
Company
Master Box Ltd
Scale
1/24
MSRP
$20.00

“Master Box Ltd. has a couple nice sets of plastic figures coming out. One of which is a pair of 1/24th scale modern infantry soldiers. Typical of Master Box, their figures are normally packaged in a setting. This one is called “Our route has been changed” and has two soldiers consulting a wrist mounted GPS/map pouch. One soldier is a female, which is nice to see for a modern look to the pair, and both are armed and wearing modern gear.” Or, so says Mike Lamm from Austin Scale Modelers Society in Austin, Texas. (from the Austin club's newsletter, The Sprue Examiner). Not that he is wrong....

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The Dark Age of Tanks – Britain’s Lost Armour 1945-1970

Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
July 27, 2020
Company
Casemate UK
MSRP
$39.95

When I heard of this book, I really wanted to get it as so little is available on this post war period of British tank development. The title is a little misleading as it really refers to the fact that there is very little remaining documentation or prototypes remaining from this period. As the author points out much of the development during this period has been lost as documents and other records have been lost, destroyed or stowed away out of sight.

I have always been intrigued by the time in British tank development as so little can be found . This book opens up a lot of this hidden history for us to read and enjoy. This is a fascinating read and I learnt a lot of from it.

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S-100 CamCopter
Review Author
Frank Landrus
Published on
July 27, 2020
Company
Hauler Brengun
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$20.99

Background

Hauler/Brengun was founded in 1999 and produces scale plastic kits, resin kits and accessories, photo-etched details for kits and other accessories. This kit of the Scheibel S-100 Camcopter is offered in three different scales: 1/72, 1/48, and 1/32.

The Schiebel Camcopter S-100 is an Austrian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using a rotorcraft design. The S-100 is also produced in partnership with Boeing. Powered by a 55-hp Diamond engine, the S-100 can carry a wide variety of sensors such as electro-optics, infrared, moving target indication, and synthetic aperture radar. An alternate engine that can use JP-5, Jet A-1, or JP-8 fuels instead of gasoline is also available. The S-100 has a maximum speed of 130 kn and a ceiling of 18,000 feet. Orders to date exceed 200 units.