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Jagdpanzer Marder I (Sd.Kfz.135)

Sprues

T-38A Talon 'Holloman AFB' (Premium Edition)

Right side

Soviet GAZ-67B Military Vehicles

Box Content

Vosper MTB 74 with Crew (Part 1)

Sprue C

de Havilland Vampire FB.5

Superscale TF-27 light wood grain trim firewall decals in place

1913 Ford Model T Roadster

Finished model

H-19 Rescue Helicopter

Kit main gear

T-33A Shooting Star and Cockpit Detail Set

Underside detail

2013 Camaro ZL1

Decals

AH-1G (late) “Huey Cobra” Special Markings

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Modern Jets Cockpit Instrument Decals
Review Author
Rob Benson
Published on
Company
Airscale Model Aircraft Enhancements
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$11.99

Thank you Airscale Model Aircraft Enhancements for sending these excellent decals for review. Thank you to the IPMS Reviewer Corps for letting me review them! I am honored to contribute back to the scale-modeling community.

Airscale Model Aircraft Enhancements’ tagline is “High resolution cockpit detailing for aircraft modelers” and this decal sheet is an excellent example of their philosophy. A compact 3 1/16 x 2 3/8 inch (60 x 80 mm) sheet is richly populated with a wide variety of high-resolution modern jet aircraft instrument gauges and screens. All decals have minimal carrier film. A thin transparent acetate sheet, about 2 inches square, is included for adding instrument cover glass.

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A-1H/AD-6/7 Skyraider Gear
Review Author
Paul R. Brown
Published on
Company
Scale Aircraft Conversions
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$11.95

As with many of SAC’s sets, this set provides a one for one replacement for the kit parts. It consists of just five parts, two main landing gear struts, two retraction struts and a tail wheel. The parts are nicely cast and have just as slight cast line where the mold halves met, but this is easily cleaned up with either a fine sanding stick or a metal wheel in your Dremel tool at low speed. The retraction struts are very thin, so be careful in handling them as white metal is much more pliable than the plastic kits parts, but unlike the kit parts, the metal parts do not spring back to their original shape if bent or moved around, they stay in the shape you last put them in.

Instructions

P-38 Early Armament .50 cal Brownings w/ Drilled Cooling Jackets
Review Author
Rod Lees
Published on
Company
Master Model
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$10.00

Master Models once again provides IPMS USA with examples of machine-shop excellence… We are extremely thankful to Piotr for providing examples of his work to review.

As you can see by the product photographs, these .50 caliber browning machine gun barrels are exquisite works of art. Designed to fit one of the two 1/32 Lighting models currently available, you receive four different length .50 caliber barrel assemblies, and two separate types of 20MM cannon barrels which were utilized on some variants of the Lightening.

What is really impressive about this set is you are provided with the drilled cooling jackets, which I challenge anyone to do at home with tubing and your personal micro drill set! I know I can’t… so this is one area (of several) where Master Models’ products shine.

Besides the cooling jackets, you are provided with hollow barrels, and mount rings,

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EA-18G Growler Anthology Decals
Review Author
Dave Morrissette
Published on
Company
Furball Aero-Design
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$21.99

As the Navy transitions away from the venerable EA-6B’s into the new EA-18G Growlers, the planes have started to get more elaborate markings and kits have become available to replicate the plane. Hasegawa took their excellent F-18F kit and has issued several iterations. Maybe it is just me but most of the aftermarket decal companies have been slow to respond to some of these new releases. Fortunately for us modelers, Furball Aero-Designs is not one of those and has great new releases. This one is for the Hasegawa kit and includes a whopping 12 wonderful growlers and has enough decals to actually build two full planes.

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OS2U Kingfisher Exterior Set

Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$32.95

Another very nice photo etch set, this time for the Kitty Hawk OS2U Kingfisher Kit. This set adds a lot of extra detail to the exterior of the kit.

The photetch parts are for the:

  • Engine details
  • Side and main float details
  • Bomb fins
  • Bomb Pylons
  • Wing light surrounds

In the packet is:

  • 1 large photo etch sheet
  • 1 Instruction sheet

Summary

This is a must have set for the Kitty Hawk Kit as it makes it into a great model with lot of additional exterior details for this aircraft. I really think the engine details alone is worth getting this set.

Thanks go to Eduard for providing this set to review and IPMS USA for allowing me to review it for them.