The kit I assembled here is the 1/25th scale version of the 1940 Ford Standard Coupe. This car in real life was available in two designs ,the standard ( built here) and the Deluxe. This version was the least expensive but more popular in it's day. Building this kit was a unique experience for me . I had a lot of fun building it .The vintage engine among other things was a great chance for me to work with parts that I'd never built with before. As far as the engine goes it is a Ford Flathead V8 with 60 Horsepower. It's a very nicely detailed vintage engine. I seen that these engine had blocks painted different colors. I chose to go with Ford Engine Blue.
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The Isuzu Type 73 Heavy Truck, is a Japanese work horse tactical truck. It serves in a multitude of rolls throughout the Japanese Armed Services. This kit includes an Isuzu Type 73 Heavy Truck, a Tank Transporter flatbed trailer and a Type 74 Tank. There are a couple of options for displaying the model: you can display the ramps down with the tank driving up and the feet down or with the tank on the trailer and the ramps stowed. There are also two boxings of this kit, with and without the Type 74 tank.
Round 2 hit a nice spot with the AMT 1966 Ford Galaxie 500. Build it stock, custom, or racing. The box contains all the parts to build it your way and some extra pieces for the parts box.
Engine
The kit provides enough parts to build either the stock engine or a SOHC engine. Either version does not fit together very well.
Chassis
The chassis is engraved fairly well but the suspension parts leave much to be desired. The front suspension is much too thick for scale.
Interior
It’s just a tub and the engraving is almost non-existent on the side panels. In fact, the only redeeming parts are the seats.
My thanks to Eduard for furnishing this photo-etch set for review and IPMS for allowing me to do it.
The Avro Lancaster was arguably the RAF’s most famous bomber of the Second World War. Most of its fame was gained as a night bomber. Of the 7,377 Lancasters built, 3,039 were B.Mk.III bombers with Packard built Merlin engines. Nineteen of the Mk.IIIs were specially modified to use the Barnes Wallis-designed "bouncing bomb" and assigned to No. 617 Squadron. That squadron with its modified Lancaster bombers conducted one of the war’s most famous raids – the night attack on four Ruhr Valley dams trying to cripple Germany’s industry in the region.
In this BRASSIN detail set, Eduard provides modelers with everything needed to build a pair of highly realistic Lewis Mk.II machine gun that will add detail to any 1:32 scale model of a WWI Allied aircraft that carried one or two of these iconic weapons. The set consists of 14 resin and 4 photo-etched brass parts. Each gun is made up of five resin parts and one photo-etched part. The additional resin parts provide a pair of spare ammunition magazines and the additional photo etch parts are extras of the little one that folds up into the gun barrel site (because Eduard expects some of these very small parts will find a way to disappear in the carpet monster…as mine did). The level of detail in each component is impressive.