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HMEE-1 (High Mobility Engineer Excavator)

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Wehrmacht Maultiers

Weapons sprues

F/A 18A+ USMC VMFA-232 RED DEVILS LE

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German L4500A (with) 5cm Flak 411

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Laffly V15T WWII French Artillery Towing Vehicle

Cockpit Parts with Aftermarket Seat

Westland Whirlwind

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Mitsubishi A6M5 (Zeke) Zero Fighter

Bow Repair

IJMNS Yamato, Part 2

Ready for painting

Roman Gladiator

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Tiger I (Late Version)

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A26B Invader Pacific Theater
Review Author
Chris Gibson
Published on
Company
ICM
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$99.99

Brief History

The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965) is an American twin-engined light bomber and ground attack aircraft. Built by Douglas Aircaft Company during World War II, the Invader also saw service during several major Cold War conflicts. A limited number of highly modified United Sates Air Force aircraft served in Southeast Aisa until 1969. It was a fast aircraft capable of carrying a large bomb load. A range of guns could be fitted to produce a formidable ground-attack aircraft.

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The Naval War of the Pacific. 1879-1884 Saltpeter War. No. 3111
Book Author(s)
Piotr Olender
Review Author
Luke R. Bucci, PhD
Published on
Company
Mushroom Model Publications - MMP Books
MSRP
$41.00

Thanks to Casemate Publishing & IPMSUSA for the review copy!

Piotr Olender is a Polish naval historian who lives in Gdansk, Poland. He has authored a series of books via MMP Books and Casemate that delve into the little-known, predominantly naval wars around the world in the last half of the 1800s and early 1900s.

This particular offering gives an operational history of the so-called Saltpeter War, or The War of the Pacific, that ultimately defined the geographic borders of three western countries of South American – Bolivia, Chile and Peru. This book is one of the Maritime Series published by Stratus s.j. in Sandomierz, Poland.

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Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020
Book Author(s)
David Grumitt
Review Author
Dana Mathes
Published on
Company
Pen and Sword Books Ltd
MSRP
$28.95

David Grummitt is an accomplished historian, author, and scale model builder. With his 2020 work, Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020, he has given the modeling community a comprehensive reference for this vehicle. More than a simple photographic history, this book is tailored to the needs of an armor modeler as it provides many photographs, drawings, kit reviews, and variant details.

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Turret for Panzer IV, Ausf. H
Review Author
Mike Lamm
Published on
Company
OKB Grigorov
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$16.25

OKB Grigorov produces resin kits and accessories. The kits are 1/700 submarines and 1/72 armor. The accessories are for 1/35 and 1/72 armor. I’ve built a couple of the kits, and some of the resin upgrade pieces, and they provide incredible detail.

This kit is an upgrade turret for any 1/72 Panzer IV kit, and I doubt you’ll find a better 1/72nd turret out there. The kit comes packed in a tiny box, but don’t let its size fool you, inside it packed with 36 highly detailed resin and photo-etch metal parts, as well as a metal barrel. There are 14 resin parts, and 22 metal pieces and each one is finely detailed.

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German Sd.Kfz. 247 Ausf B with Crew
Review Author
Eric Christianson
Published on
Company
ICM
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$65.97

History

This new ICM offering represents an unusual mark in a family of Sonderkraftfahrzeug (Sd.kfz.) ‘special purpose vehicles’ fielded by the German Wehrmacht in World War II. The diminutive Sd.Kfz. 247 was an armored staff car outfitted with radio gear, intended for use by the commanders of motorcycle and motorized reconnaissance battalions. The Ausf B version represented in this kit, was one of 58 built by Daimler-Benz between 1941—1942 on afour-wheel driveheavy car chassis (s.Pkw. Type 1c). The front-mounted engine was an 8-cylinder, 3.823-litre (233.3cuin)Horch3.5petrolengine, giving it a road speed of 80km/h (50mph). It had a maximum range of 400km (250mi).

Although unarmed, its armor was intended to stop7.92-millimetre (0.312in)armor-piercingbullets at ranges over 30 meters.