Finished model

Panzer IV Ausf.H - Late Production

With figures 1

Where Are the Damned Roads?

36510 Right

Wehrmacht Maultiers

Finished Halftrack - Dashboard Detail

Sd.Kfz.10/4 fur 2cm FlaK 30, 1940 Production w/Ammo Trailer

Pre-shading and base color

Merkava Mk.3 BAZ with Nochri Dalet Mine Roller

Right Side

ERA-3B Skywarrior, Part 3

Steering Shaft

Don Garlits’ Swamp Rat XXX Dragster

Fairing - gap

E-2C Hawkeye 2000 VAW-115 Liberty Bells “Sayonara Atsugi”

F-18C Finished 03

Academy F/A-18C

Nose view

F9F-8 & F9F-8P Cougar

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PE Sheet

PBY-5A Floats
Review Author
Dave Morrissette
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$34.95

Eduard continues releases for Revell/Monograms 1/48 PBY-5A with a set designed to enhance the floats. This set is one large photoetch brass sheet with 39 pieces dominated by large sheets to be added to the floats. While some of the other PE sets are specifically for the "-5A" version, this looks like it will fit the "-5" also.

The kits has quite good detail in most places but one place it is lacking is the floats on each wing tip. The bays that the floats fold into is devoid of any detail. Also, one die of the floats has very fine detail while the other side is again devoid of detail. These two deficiencies by providing full details for the floats bays and the floats themselves.

Box Art

Space Shuttle Discovery
Review Author
Jim Pearsall
Published on
Company
Dragon Models
Scale
1/144
MSRP
$57.00

The Space Shuttle (actual name “Space Transportation System) was a reusable manned low Earth orbit vehicle. It consisted of the space plane which went into orbit and glided back to Earth, two Solid Rocket Boosters and the expendable fuel tank.

Shuttles were operated by NASA from 1981 to 2011, flying a total of 135 missions.

The missions ranged from launching satellites and interplanetary probes to delivering components for the International Space Station, and later delivering supplies and crew for the ISS.

There were originally 5 shuttles built, Enterprise, which had no orbital capability, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery and Atlantis. After Challenger was destroyed, Endeavour was built.

Front cover

de Havilland D.H.82 Tiger Moth
Book Author(s)
Adrian M. Balch
Review Author
Phil Pignataro
Published on
Company
Guideline Publications
MSRP
$22.58

If you were a British student pilot during the late 1930’s through the end of WW II, you, most likely, spent many hours in the de Havilland D.H. 82 Tiger Moth. It was the basic training aircraft for the RAF, RN, as well as the air forces of all the British Commonwealth nations. USAAF fighter pilots in England flew 11 of them as squadron “hacks” – utility planes – until the war ended. Evidently it was not that easy to fly and demanded close attention during acrobatic maneuvers to prevent a stall and possible spin. As such, however, it was deemed suitable for future fighter pilots. Though long retired from military use, over 200 are still flying today with warbird groups and other enthusiasts. This “Warpaint Series” book by Adrian M. Balch covers these stories and much more.

Cover

Ottoman Navy 1914-18
Book Author(s)
Ryan K. Noppen; Illustrator: Paul Wright
Review Author
Jeff Leiby
Published on
Company
Osprey Publishing
MSRP
$17.95

Background

The website description of this title, “At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole - the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left the Ottoman Navy with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst the list of prospective enemies was ever-growing. An increasing Russian naval presence in the Black Sea and the alarming emergence of Italy and Greece as regional Naval powers proved beyond all doubt that intensive modernization was essential, indeed, the fate of the Empire as a naval power depended on it. So the Ottoman Navy looked to the ultimate naval weapon of the age, the dreadnought, two of which were ordered from the British. But politics intervened, and a succession of events culminated in the Ottoman Navy fielding a modern German battlecruiser and state-of-the-art light cruiser instead - with dramatic consequences.

Box Art

Boulton Paul Defiant Starter Set
Review Author
Greg Wise
Published on
Company
Airfix
MSRP
$15.99

History Brief

The Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I, among RAF pilots it had the nickname "Daffy". It was a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. They were designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft without any forward-firing guns, as a two-seat turret fighter, powered by a 1,030 hp (768 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin III piston engine and 723 built. It was a contemporary of the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc and the concept of a turret fighter, as it was developed in both aircraft, related directly to the successful First World War-era Bristol F.2 Fighter.