My thanks, up front, to Eduard for sending this set for review. It’s a significant investment, and I’ll try to do it justice.

Eduard’s Big Ed set for the Trumpeter 1/48 scale A3D-2 Skywarrior arrives in a really heavy envelope containing seven individual sets:

• EX410 A3D-2 1/48 Canopy Masks (Pre-Cut Kabuki Tape)
• 48764 A3D-2 Bomb Bay 1/48
• 48791 A3D-2 Undercarriage 1/48
• 49665 A3D-2 Interior S.A. 1/48
• 49677 A3D-2 Seatbelts 1/48
• 48793 A3D-2 Exterior 1/48
• 49009 Remove Before Flight Flags 1/48

Our fearless leader, Dave Morrissette, recently reviewed the individual Eduard A3D-2 cockpit and seatbealt sets that are also provided in this Bid Ed package. I’ll be reviewing these same details in this first installment on the Big Ed set, but there is no disagreement here; I echo Dave’s observations.

The Dornier Alpha Jet is an advanced trainer/light attack/helicopter hunter/double seat jet aircraft that has seen service with 10 air forces, and several of them are currently being used in the civilian market.

Caracal models has released an impressive decal sheet for 15 airframes for 8 different countries. These are the airframes you get (listed from Caracal Website)

The Bussing-NAG 5 cm KwK 39/IL/60 four-wheel German armored car is one of two prototypes of this nature built. Historical reference for these vehicles is very hard to come by. However, it is known that they were in fact built but never put into production. It is also accepted that they were in fact field-tested, but it is debated as to which unit actually tested them. Some sources saying it was the 12th SS Panzer division, but again, there is no definitive proof of this as the data does not exist to confirm this information. There were two paint schemes observed in a photo that exists: one dark yellow and one with a yellow and green camo scheme (with a hard-to-discern pattern). The box art depicts a two-tone camo scheme, so I followed that suggestion based on discussions I had on the Axis WWII forum of the Missing-Lynx armor web site.