A while back I built the Zvezda 1/72 Mi-24 Hind. I got the opportunity to do this review and grabbed it, as I wouldn’t have to build the entire kit just to add the nose guns

The package contains two guns. The kit gives options of two different guns in the nose turret. The one I used is the Yak-B 4 barrel Gatling-type gun, 12.7 mm. The other is a twin-barrel gun the G-Sh-30, a 30 mm weapon. The 12.7mm has been phased out, and the 30 mm is preferred, as it has more punch, particularly on light armored targets.

The G-Sh-30 is definitely superior to the kit parts, as the kit gun comes in 2 parts, so you have to deal with a seam. The QB part has slightly finer detail, which is still hard to see in 1/72.

The Yak-B looked quite a bit like the kit part, and fit into the turret nicely. The only outstanding difference was that the hump on the kit part is a recess on the resin part.

History:

The Bf 110 served with success in the early campaigns, the Polish, Norwegian and Battle of France. The Bf 110's lack of agility in the air was its primary weakness. This flaw was exposed during the Battle of Britain, when some Bf 110-equipped units were withdrawn from the battle after very heavy losses and redeployed as night fighters, a role to which the aircraft was well suited.

Quickboost has some of the best resin parts I have seen. For a 1/72 scale part the edges are sharp and the details are clearly defined. This will be a nice upgrade to the Airfix kit.

I would like to thank Quickboost.net, Aires Hobby Models and IPMS/USA for the opportunity to conduct this review.

Lifelike Decals are some of the best designed and clearly printed decals on the market today. This set has a combination of Fw190A/F examples for four different Focke Wulf aircraft.

This decal set provides markings for:

• Fw 190A-3, 2/EJG2. West, Yellow 28, Cazaux AB, France, 1942
• Fw 190A-4, 9./JG 2, Yellow 4, Vannes AB, France, Feb 1943, as flown by Oblt Siefried Schnell
• Fw 190A-4, Commander JG 101, Triple Chevron, Pau AB, France, Summer 1944, as flown by Major Walter Nowotny
• Fw 190F-8, I./SG 4, Yellow 7, Wenden AB, Germany, Sep 1944

The color profile sheets show a Side, top and bottom views of each aircraft.

This set also comes with “swastikas” (Thank you Lifelike for including them on the sheet and not wasting our time with lame politically correct nonsense) and the national markings. You also get a nice set of stencils.