Left front

Sd.Kfz.3a Maultier Half Track

Phantom & F-18 Finished

F-4J Phantom II & F/A-18F Super Hornet "Jolly Rogers" (2 kits) Limited Edition

Left front view

Sd.Kfz.167 Stug. IV ‘LAST PRODUCTION’

Internal Weapons Bay

USMC F-35B VMFA-121 "Green Knights"

Completed 8

M1A2 SEP Abrams TUSK II

Color guide

Daimler Benz Project F - German Service

Completed 4

Churchill Mk. III

Weapins

US Infantry on Board

Engine detail

Short Sunderland Mk. I

Bottom

BRE Datsun 510

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Detail Parts

F9F Panther Antennas
Review Author
Floyd S. Werner Jr.
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$6.50

Quickboost has always offered up quick and easy upgrades at a good price. The latest is designed for the Trumpeter F9F-2 Panther but could easily be used on the Monogram -5/-5P. There are three beautifully rendered antennas which do not have mold lines and are perfectly formed and round. The antennas are molded in light grey resin with very small pour blocks that will prove no problem even for a novice modeler dealing with his/her first resin pieces.

Because you don’t have to ensure the roundness of these parts, I find these antenna worth the price of admission. Highly recommended.

Thanks to Quickboost and IPMS/USA for the review copy.

Detail Parts

Bf-109E Propeller with Tool
Review Author
Floyd S. Werner Jr.
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$8.50

Having built the Eduard Bf-109E, I would have loved to have had the prop hub off my open-cowled model but I didn’t have the means to do it effectively. Quickboost now provides you with a five-piece prop and hub, plus an alignment tool.

Molded perfectly in light grey resin, the props are suitably thin and of the correct cross section. You will need to drill a hole for the prop shaft, but it is not a big deal. The mounting pins for the prop blades will ensure correct alignment of the blades. Then, all you have to do is leave off the prop hub and you can add a new dimension to your 109. Highly recommended.

Thanks to Quickboost and IPMS/USA for the opportunity to review this set.

Detail Parts

Bf-109E Air Intake and Injection Cover
Review Author
Floyd S. Werner Jr.
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$6.50

I’ve built two of Eduard’s beautiful Bf-109Es, and in both cases an area that I would have liked to have done better was the intake and the injection cover – the injection cover especially if the engine cover is removed. Both of these parts are folded or joined out of photo etch pieces. Well, unless you are really good with PE, the result may not be as good as you’d like. Now, Quickboost remedies that situation in resin.

Molded flawlessly out of light grey resin are three pieces of resin: the air intake and two covers for the injectors. Both of these items, especially the intake, are much easier than the PE to use and look great. I will certainly enjoy using these pieces over the PE.

If you are like me and prefer resin over PE, you will enjoy these parts as well. Flawlessly rendered and wonderfully detailed, these parts are exactly what you come to expect from Quickboost. Highly recommended.

Box Art

MiG-23M Flogger-B
Review Author
Michael Novosad
Published on
Company
Trumpeter
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$57.95

History

The MiG-23, NATO reporting name Flogger, is a swing-wing aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the former Soviet Union. It is considered to be a third-generation Soviet jet fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet Union aircraft to utilize look-down/shoot-down radar and one of the first to be armed with beyond visual range missiles. The MiG-23 was also the first production fighter aircraft to have intakes at the sides of the fuselage. Production started in 1970 with over 5,000 aircraft built.

The design of the MiG-23 was influenced by the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the General Dynamics F-111. The Soviets required a lighter, single-engined fighter to maximize agility. The F-111 and the MiG-23 were initially designed as fighters, but the heavy weight and instability of the F-111 eliminated it from the fighter role. The Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau kept the MiG-23 light and agile enough to dogfight with enemy fighters.

Part Package

F6F Hellcat Correct Radome – Part One
Review Author
Walt Fink
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$5.25

Quickboost advertises this product as a correct radome for the Eduard 1/72 Hellcat kit. What they mean is that it has recessed panel lines to match the rest of the kit, unlike the kit’s radome which has raised ones. The one-piece casting also means no seam to worry about as is not the case with the kit part, which is formed by upper and lower halves.

The resin is smooth with no pinholes, and the engraved panel lines are nice and sharp. The Quickboost radome is marginally smaller than the kit part, but the dimensions of both parts are so close that I personally feel it wouldn’t make much difference to the naked eye which one was used on a build. For what it’s worth, here’s what I measured: