Trailer Running Gear 1

Atlantis White-Fruehauf Gas Truck

Decals

JASDF T-1B Trainer

Outside View

Datsun Off-Road Pickup

Weapons bay

F-35A Lightning II

Rear

Porsche Boxster

Left front

Bf-109E-3 and Detail Sets

Finished

"Quietly came, quietly went…" - Special Operations Forces of Ukraine

Completed 4

Focke Wulf Fw-190A-9

Main gear

C-17A Globemaster III

3

OV-10D Bronco

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Packaging

BAC/English Electric Lightning Pitot Tube
Review Author
Andrew Birkbeck
Published on
Company
Master Model
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$4.95

The firm Master Model, from Poland, produces a very wide range of exquisite turned-brass accessories for the aircraft, ship, and armor modeler. Their products include Pitot tubes, machine gun and cannon barrels, shells, and spent shell casings in almost every scale you can think of from 1/700 scale for ship models to 1/24 scale for aircraft models.

The pitot tube under review today came in a simple card-backed package with the part contained in a plastic sleeve. It is listed for “all kits” of the BAC/EE Lightning in 1/72 scale. This includes the most recently released gem from Airfix, the recent Trumpeter releases, and kits dating all the way back to the Frog issues of this aircraft.

Box Art

MK I "Female" British Tank, Special Modification for the Gaza Strip
Review Author
Al LaFleche
Published on
Company
Master Box Ltd
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$24.95

Packaging

Master Box’s 1/72 Mk I “Female” British tank with Gaza Modifications comes in a heavy card stock box that opens at either end. Inside is a resalable plastic bag holding the four plastic sprues, one flexible rubbery sprue (tracks), and a small plastic envelope for the decal sheet. The plastic sprues have about 60 parts, but about a quarter of them are reserved for a different variant of the tank.

The front of the box shows an example of the prototype in a Middle Eastern setting. The back has a four-view illustration that also doubles as a painting guide. Two colors are called out, Vallejo 988 Khaki for the main section of the tank and a mixture of gunmetal and black for the tracks.

Parts Package

Dassault Mirage III/5 Pitot Tube
Review Author
Steve Collins
Published on
Company
Master Model
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$4.00

This is one of a prolific series of very fine brass replacements for pitot tubes and gun barrels from Master Model Poland. They do ranges in 1/24, 1/32, 1/35, 1/48 and 1/72 for aircraft as well as guns in all the major scales for ships and a few guns in 1/35 for our armor-building friends. They are all very well made, being very petite and usually more in scale than their plastic counterparts. And, once installed, they’re much harder to accidentally break off than plastic. Yes, some of them are sharp enough puncture the less than vigilant. Ask me how I know.

Box art

European Tram - Part 2
Review Author
Pablo Bauleo
Published on
Company
MiniArt
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$89.00

Part 2: Painting the Interior

This build has not completely stalled, despite the long hiatus since the last update.

I have been working on the painting of the interior and undercarriage and I have done some research as to what colors to use. The passenger cabin was left in natural wood color (mahogany maybe) with some varnish to protect the wood. The driver position was most likely painted wood, in different versions of tan and sand color, but perhaps it was natural wood color in some examples.

As the model features a full interior (which is very exposed due to the large windows), you will have to remove and prepare all the parts, ensuring proper dry fitting of them before you can paint and glue them.

Package

F-4E Phantom II Cockpit Set
Review Author
Steve Collins
Published on
Company
Aires Hobby Models
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$26.50

The Aires F-4E cockpit set is typical of most of their cockpits. The set is made up of resin, photoetch, and an acetate sheet. Cast in a medium grey resin, the detail is very sharp and very complete. Included in resin in the set are the cockpit tub with both side consoles and the rear bulkhead of each pit molded in, side panels for each side that have detail for both pits, the rear instrument panel with detail of the back side of the instruments on the upper half of the panel, the front instrument panel cast in place with the glare shield and radar reflector glass, two seats without belts, and a sprue with both control sticks, a control grip for the radar, the radar display unit for the back pit, the scope hood for the radar, throttles for both pits, and an insert for the canopy bow between the seats.