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F-86K Sabre Dog “NATO” All Weather Fighter

Tow Tractor 3

Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II

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DH 100 Vampire FB Mk.52 Over Northern Sky

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HH-60H 'Rescue Hawk'

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French Light Tank R35

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CF-188A '20 Years of Service RCAF'

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Kenworth W-900 Conventional

Rotor Head

CH-47A Chinook

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Snap-Tite 2018 Mustang GT

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R.M.S Titanic

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A-1 Skyraider pylons

Review Author
Ben Guenther
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$6.50

Quickboost has continued to issue sets that make building the Hasegawa A-1 Skyraider easier and with better details. This time around Quickboost presents a set with completely assembled pylons, the centerline, the fuel tanks (2) and the wing pylons (12). The parts are cast in the usual fine grain, gray resin with no defects and very little clean up.

With the plastic kit the wing pylons are assembled from two parts and with the fuel tanks and centerline pylons you’ll have to glue on the sway brackets. The plastic parts have seam lines that have to be removed, possible glue smears to contend with and the fuel tank pylons have punch out marks that have to be removed.

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The Vought F4U Corsair: A Comprehensive Guide (Revised)
Book Author(s)
Rafe Morrissey and Joe Hegedus
Review Author
Brian R. Baker
Published on
Company
SAM Publications
MSRP
$32.65

Introduction

There have been many books published on the Vought F4U Corsair over the years, so why, you might ask, has another one appeared? The reason is that this is not only a comprehensive history of the development and combat career of the Corsair, but it is also a very complete modelers’ guide to all Corsair kits in 1/32, 1/48, and 1/72 scale. I don’t know why they left out 1/144, as there has been at least one kit issued in this scale. In any event, this is a really complete history of the type, and it explains the developmental problems and how they were solved, with the Corsair evolving into not only an outstanding fighter but also a highly effective close support aircraft, with a production life beginning in 1941, and continuing until 1952, when the last Corsair, an F4U-7, was rolled out of the Dallas plant.

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Air Modeller #34, February/March 2011
Review Author
Roger Rasor
Published on
Company
Air Modeller
MSRP
$14.95

Contents:

  • Protecting the Motherland’s Airspace – modeling a 1/48 Chinese MiG-19s
  • Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.1 – building and detailing a 1/48 Classic Airframes kit
  • Vickers Wellington Mk.X Coastal Command – building and detailing the Trumpeter 1/48 kit
  • Scale Modelworld 2010 – photo feature
  • Fw 189A-2 – building the new Great Wall Hobby 1/48 kit
  • Air Born – New Product/Publication Releases
  • B-17G – building Revell of Germany’s 1/72 kit

This publication has become a premier showplace for some wonderful model aircraft. The publication’s cover banner “SHOWCASING THE VERY BEST IN SCALE AIRCRAFT MODELLING” is an accurate promise. Everything David Goudie said in his review of Issue Number 32 can be said of Issue Number 34. It is Quality…I’d go so far to declare it as High Quality.

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Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars 1941-45

Book Author(s)
Author: Richard Doherty, Illustrator: Henry Morshead
Review Author
Gary Telecsan
Published on
Company
Osprey Publishing
MSRP
$17.95

“This is #177 in the New Vanguard Series which explores the design, development, operation and history of the machinery of warfare through the ages.”

So says the tag line of Osprey’s advertising copy, and it is a fair description of the contents of this volume. The author, Richard Doherty, has a number of books to his credit, the most notable of which are about the reconnaissance corps which used the Humber car during the Second World War.

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Mosquito Exhaust

Review Author
Mike Hinderliter
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$5.95

Quickboost just keeps adding to their line of resin aircraft accessories. The latest addition is for the Tamiya Mosquito. It is up to their usual standards; molded in grey resin, smooth, seamless and bubble free. One thing of note is that they are really easy to remove from the mold block because of a nice perforation. It only took me a couple of minutes with my saw blade to remove them. Another plus is that the exhausts are bored out, which would be a real pain if you tried to do it on the kit part.

The exhausts that come in the Tamiya kit look alright and would make an acceptable model but the Quickboost replacements are superior because of how they are bored out which makes for more realism, especially in a photo. These exhausts are very easy to install, and they just fit right in.