Finished top

Lockheed C-140A JetStar

Completed Interior - Turret Top Removed

AEC Mk.II Armoured Car, Part 3 – Turret & Final Completion

Finished Model - Underside

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3

Bell Crank & Aileron Push Rod

SPAD VII c.1(w/Skis)

Figure Back

US Navy Pilot (50’s)

Gun bay

North American F-51D Mustang Korean War

Finished efforts

E-2C Hawkeye 2000 "VAW-115 Sayonara" Limited Edition

Finished right

Ju-87G Dual Combo

Completed model

’37 Ford Coupe Street Rod

Rear Seat Belts

T-38A Talon

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Diorama: Here is Snickers, help yourself please
Review Author
Rod Lees
Published on
Company
Master Box Ltd
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$21.00

Thanks very much to Masterbox (MB) and Dragon USA for providing IPMS USA this review kit and to the IPMS Review corps leadership for sending this item my direction!

OK, I’m not a figure guru. I tend to just build aircraft, but every once in a while, I get the urge to try my hand. Some day I may improve, sez I…

This set is intended as a small vignette to show two allied Armor operators passing out Snickers ® candy bars to local kids, under the ever watchful eye of their mother. Hence the name of the kit… Depending on your experience if you have deployed overseas, this is either fanciful (Most of the time we were told to avoid any dealings with Middle Eastern families) or reality, depending on where you were sent.

With that in mind, I take this build at face value; kids are kids worldwide, and the opportunity for free candy is never turned down… read on.

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Tom Daniel's "Cherry Bomb"
Review Author
John Noack
Published on
Company
Revell
Scale
1/24
MSRP
$22.95

Fans of 60's and 70's custom show cars will recall that prolific period when it seemed that every week a new car – prototype and/or model – rolled out on display. Many of these vehicles were designed to augment a popular TV show (The Munsters Coach and Dragula, the Monkeemobile, Batmobile, etc); others hit the show circuit, and still others landed on the shelves of our friendly hobby shop where hordes of kids (like me) spent our allowances. Tom Daniel's Cherry Bomb falls into that category. I'd never built it the first time around so I jumped on the opportunity to do so this time.

The kit actually contains three vehicles – the gas turbine-powered car, a surfboard-derived trailer, and a chopper style motorcycle whose gas tank replicates the explosive device in question, which launched many a boys' room toilet seat when lit and flushed. (Or so I hear).

Box

NASA Space Shuttle "Discovery" w/747-100 SCA
Review Author
Matthew Cottrell
Published on
Company
Dragon Models
Scale
1/144
MSRP
$99.89

The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) fleet consisted of two modified Boeing 747s. The iconic N905NA, a retired American Airlines 747-100, conducted the Approach and Landing Tests with the Space Shuttle Enterprise in the late 70s, still sporting its natural metal finish with an American Airlines red, white, and blue cheatline. N905NA had a long second career with NASA, finishing its service in fall of 2012 after ferrying Discovery, Enterprise, and Endeavor to their final display locations, and ultimately arriving in Houston, TX, to start a third career as a museum display, eternally ferrying the Space Shuttle replica Independence.

Cover Sheet

USMC Intruders A-6A/E
Review Author
Robert Head
Published on
Company
Furball Aero-Design
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.99

Furball Aero-Design has been producing some awesome decals since being founded in 2012. With this latest release they addresses a somewhat new and popular kit, the HobbyBoss 1/48 scale A-6 Intruder. A little about the aircraft, the Grumman A-6 Intruder was an American mid-wing, all-weather attack aircraft powered by twin jet engines and built by Grumman Aerospace. In service with the US Navy and US Marine Corps between 1963 and 1997, the Intruder was designed to replace the piston-engined Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Furball has given you the option to build two complete USMC examples from a selection of 13 marking schemes.

Cover Sheet

Spitfires over India
Review Author
Robert Head
Published on
Company
Iliad Design
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$12.00

This 1/48 scale decal set, available from Iliad Design, provides markings options for six different Spitfires flown during WWII in the China Burma Indian theater. Markings are included for one natural metal, one dark green, and four camouflaged aircraft flown by British Indian pilots. The Iliad set includes multiple national insignias and roundels for each aircraft, along with the red lightning bolts for British Indian fighter pilot and instructor Frank Carey.

The six options are: