Top left rear

Nakajima E8N1/E8N2 Type 95 Recon Seaplane (Dave) "Battleship Yamato" Limited Edition

Left Flank

T-15 Armata Object 149

Photo 2 - interior done, fuselage ready to be glued together

B-17G Waist Interior and Fuselage Assembly

Painted Hull & Deck

Flower Class Corvette Spiraea

Sprue closeup

Aero L-29 Delfin

Right front

Spitfire Mk. VII/VIII

Stand

Hindenburg

Horizontal Stabs & Flaps

USMC F/A 18D

Head 2

German Paratroopers WWII Era

Rigged

Se.5a Scout Royal Class: Dual Combo

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Box Art

Soviet Air Force Colonel, Korean War, 1951
Review Author
Rod Lees
Published on
Company
Aerobonus
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$10.00

First: Thanks to Aires for providing IPMS USA this figure to review! One of six in this review series, each shows a passion and dedication Aires have to providing the finest resin products. We appreciate your support, with the usual nod to IPMS USA leadership for allowing me to review these figures.

Included with each set are painting instructions in color!

Q/U-Boat Cover

Q Ship vs U-Boat
Book Author(s)
David Greentree
Review Author
Mike Hinderliter
Published on
Company
Osprey Publishing
MSRP
$18.95

Osprey has put out book # 57 in their Duel series. It is about the British Q Boats or decoy boats, as they were also known, versus the German U-boats. This book is another interesting book about World War 1 to go along with the wars 100 year anniversary.

The Imperial German U-boats were preying on the merchant ships that were supplying the British war effort. The U-boats were doing such a good job of this that Britain had to think of something that would make the submarines surface. Once surfaced, the U-boat became more vulnerable and the ship would have a better chance to fight. Enter the Q ship, a ship that appears to be a lone merchant ship and easy target. Once the U-boat surfaces the Q ship’s hidden guns appear and open fire.

The book is divided into eleven sections:

Package

Landing Gear Weathering and Wash Materials
Review Author
Dick Montgomery
Published on
Company
AK Interactive
MSRP
$14.28

AK Interactive offers a wide variety of items for the modeler, from paint and weathering sets and books, to model kits. The website is easy to navigate and offers a button to provide an “English” translation. Another button offers a currency exchange calculate from Euros (the posted pricing) to US dollars.

AK is on Facebook and has a You-Tube presence. To quote the AK You-Tube link, “AK's Official Youtube Channel (will) show Advanced Techniques, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks and many more things. Currently working on it :-)”

AK provided IPMS-USA their Aircraft Landing Gear Weathering Set, AK 2030, to review and I was pleased to take on this review. The AK 2030 set contains 3 bottles of “wash and weathering” liquids.

Packaging

E-2C Hawkeye Landing Gear
Review Author
Steve Collins
Published on
Company
Scale Aircraft Conversions
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$17.00

Scale Aircraft Conversions, or SAC, make replacement landing gear for a wide variety of aircraft, in all the major scales. They are cast in white metal which is stronger than the plastic used in the kit’s pieces. To quote the company’s website, “Some sets consist of the main gear only while others include the nose gear, tail gear and/or adjacent related components. Some inaccuracies in the original kit gear have been corrected but the mounting points remain identical to the factory parts.”

Packaging

Martin Baker MB Mk4 Ejection Seat
Review Author
Steve Collins
Published on
Company
PJ Production
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$4.25

PJ Production from Belgium makes resin aftermarket accessories for aircraft, as well as some very nice resin aircraft kits. Among their many products is a series of ejection seats to replace the usually plain kit-provided examples.

This particular seat is a Martin Baker Mark 4 seat. The listing isn’t more specific than that, but says it is to be used in Lightnings, Alpha Jets, Canberras, Hunters, and Vampires.

Now, I’m not entirely up on the Mk 4, but I know that most of those jets used different versions of the Mk 4, along with seats other than the Mk 4, in various versions of the aircraft. For instance, the Lightning used Mk 4BSB, 4BSC, 4BST, etc., while the Canberra used the Mk 1C, 3CSB, 4Q, 4QS, and others in various versions of the aircraft. I’m pretty sure the differences in the different types of Mk 4 were visually minor, so that’s acceptable to me.