Once again, “birdcage” canopies have met their match in the form of an Eduard mask set. This recent release from Eduard saved many minutes of precious benchtime by providing perfectly-sized and crisply-die-cut masks for the 14 clear windscreen and canopy panels, not to mention the landing light lenses and wheel hubs.

I highly recommend this mask set to all modelers building the Italeri/Tamiya 1/48 Hurricane – it’s well worth every penny of the investment.

Thanks to Eduard and IPMS/USA for the review sample and for the time saved on an epic build!

Eduard’s set of photoetch landing flaps adds another level of depth to the Italeri/Tamiya Hurricane Mk I kit. Although few reference photos of aircraft on the ground show the flaps dropped, they do add a degree of interest to finished model.

The single fret of components, as expected from Eduard, is beautifully engineered and produced. Instructions are clear and concise.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War, or the South Atlantic conflict, as it has been known. As such, different plastic model kit sets and publications are been released and “Wings of the Malvinas” is among them.

This book covers the air operations from the Argentinean point of view. You can tell this book is a work of love from the author, Santiago Rivas, as the attention to detail is second to none.

The book is divided into 3 parts: The first one covers the path towards the conflict, with a succinct but well detailed description of the long-lasting dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the islands and the events on March, 1982, in South Georgia, which precipitated the war.