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Book Author(s)
Philip Jowett, Stephen Walsh (Ill.)
Review Author
Brian R. Baker
Published on
November 5, 2020
Company
Osprey Publishing
MSRP
$19.00

History

While the general course of World War II has been told and retold many times, some of the more obscure parts of the war have been largely ignored by historians, and this volume’s authors have made a great effort to rectify the situation. This book describes the situation in areas threatened and taken over by the Japanese at the beginning of World War II and explains how the Japanese attempted to make use of manpower in the conquered areas to assert control and defend against Allied attempts to retake these areas.

Book Author(s)
Chris McNab
Review Author
Phillip Cavender
Published on
November 5, 2020
Company
Osprey Publishing
MSRP
$22.00

“US Soldier versus German Soldier, Salerno, Anzio, and Omaha Beach, 1943-44”, published May 2020, became number 48 in Osprey’s Combat Series. Osprey’s Combat Series, first published in 2013, describe in detail history’s adversaries pitted against each other using analysis, photographs, maps, and commissioned color plates. Chris McNab, author, and editor has written numerous books for Osprey and more than a hundred books, magazines and newspapers on military history and military technology. Steve Noon has illustrated over 50 books for Osprey.

This 80-page, 7.3 x 9.8-inch, book consists of an introduction, 6 chapters, bibliography and index containing 20 color photographs, maps, and illustrations and 45 b/w images.

Review Author
Bob LaBouy
Published on
December 11, 2021
Company
AFV Club
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$79.99

History

The name ‘clouded leopard’ is taken from a beautiful medium-sized wild cat that is found throughout much of Southeastern Asia and pictured below to satisfy your animal interest for this beautiful cat.

This kit is a Taiwan Infantry Fighting Vehicle (TIFV) and appears to closely resemble the Stryker vehicles I have seen at Ft. Lewis. That’s where the apparent similarity ends, as the basic CM-32 vehicle series is new design built in Taiwan, the Republic of China.

Review Author
Pablo Bauleo
Published on
July 5, 2022
Company
AMMO by Mig Jimenez
MSRP
$1.50

This review covers the following standing sticks from the AMMO line

  • Standard sanding stick with grits 180/320/600/2000; MSRP: $1.50
  • Large Surfaces sanding stick with grits: 320/600/4000; MSRP: $2.10
  • Multipurpose sanding stick with grits 150/240/320/600/1200/2000; MSRP: $2.30

All these sticks have the different grits identified by color coding each surface of half-surface. Their size is large enough to fit well and comfortable in your hand.

They are flexible, so you can use them in any task that requires following curved surfaces. They are padded (in particular the Large Surfaces one), which means your hand does not need to follow a curved path, the padding of the sanding stick will do that for you.

The Multipurpose stick is a workbench workhouse that could be used from shaping parts with its 150/240 grit, all the way to polishing parts with its 2000 grit.

Book Author(s)
Kamen Nevenkin
Review Author
Frank Landrus
Published on
November 4, 2020
Company
Peko Publishing
MSRP
$129.95

Although the idea itself was born earlier, the Hungarian Peko Publishing, was established in 2012. Even though this is quite a young company, it became popular and well known by the modeling community in a short period of time. The key to their success is that they own thousands of original photographs, most of which have not yet been published. PeKo Publishing Books are distributed in North America by Casemate Publications.