Finished

Messerschmitt P-1103

Cockpits

SR-71 Blackbird "Bododian Express" Limited Edition

Cockpit From Front

Henschel Hs-129B-2/RIII - Part 1 - Cockpit, Engines, and Fuselage

Finished model right

DeHavilland DH-82A Tiger Moth

Finished model

Boulton Paul Defiant Starter Set

Real Trainer at Pima Air Museum

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka K1 KAI Model 43 "Two Seats"

Top Front

ERA-3B Skywarrior, Part 3

Rear view

IDF Sho't Kal Gimel Type II

Cockpit Interior 5

BF-110F Heavy Fighter

Completed model

E-2C Hawkeye 2000, USS Ronald Reagan

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Land of the Giants Spindrift
Review Author
Frank Landrus
Published on
Company
Doll and Hobby
Scale
1/64
MSRP
$44.93

Background

Doll and Hobby GA is a specialized hobby distributor focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and comic related model kits. They carry the latest releases from Moebius Models, Round 2 (AMT, Polar Lights, MPC, Lindberg) and more. They focus on subjects like Star Trek, 2001, Space 1999, classic monsters, and comic book heroes. Their warehouse is located in Lawrenceville, GA, just east of Atlanta. Owned by Steve Iverson who purchased the company from Frank and Joanne Winspur in 2018. Steve Iverson might also be familiar since he also owns CultTVman’s Sci-Fi Modeling.

Their first kit was the Land of the Giants Snake Diorama that was originally released by Aurora in 1968. This release featured new box art and a two sided backdrop to display the completed model. Their second release was the Lost in Space Cylops and the Chariot Diorama that Aurora released in 1966. Future releases will include ex-Aurora kits The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Guillotine.

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Cross & Cockade International Spring 2022 Volume 53/1
Book Author(s)
Managing Editor- Mick Davis
Review Author
Frank Landrus
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Company
Cross & Cockade International

Cross & Cockade International is a non-profit UK based group known as the First World War Aviation Historical Society that publishes their journal four times a year. They also provide a free newsletter (sign up on their website) and occasionally publish WWI themed books like the Sopwith Dolphin monograph I reviewed earlier for IPMS USA. This Journal is the sister of the US Journal, Over The Front.

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Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf. Type J/L/M, Part 1
Review Author
Phillip Cavender
Published on
Company
Gallery Models
Scale
1/16
MSRP
$199.98

Who is Gallery Models?

The following statement was sent to me by a Model Rectifier Corporation (MRC) representative upon requesting a short synopsis of who Gallery Models is, "Gallery Models is a concept developed by Model Rectifier Corporation (MRC). The first model was developed in 2009 together with prominent designers, artists, mold-makers, historians, and modelers. The central idea propelling Gallery Models is to select subjects that will challenge the hobbyist’s imagination and building skills while providing detail and enormous intrinsic kit value. Gallery’s selection includes helicopters, armor, and ships."

Box Art

IJMNS Yamato, Part 1
Review Author
Bill Kluge
Published on
Company
Gallery Models
Scale
1/200
MSRP
$829.99

The Ship

So much has been written about the battleship Yamato that anyone familiar with the Pacific War will know of the Japanese super battleship. Realizing that they could not compete one-on-one with the U.S.Navy, from the mid-1930s the Japanese shipbuilding philosophy was to build each of their new warships to be individually superior to any competing USN warship design. Commissioned into the IJN in late 1941 and early 1942 respectively, the Yamato and her sister-ship, Musashi represented the epitome of this philosophy. Weighing in at nearly 70,000 tons fully loaded, they were the largest battleships ever built and were not superseded in warship size until the advent of the U.S. Navy’s super carriers in the 1950s. As powerful as they were, Yamato and her sister spent much of their careers at anchor and did not fire their 18.1”guns in anger until the Philippines campaign of October, 1944, where Musashi was sunk by air attack.

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Wings of Iraq - Volume 2: The Iraq Air Force, 1970-1980
Book Author(s)
Milos Sipos & Tom Cooper
Review Author
Orlando Reyes
Published on
Company
Helion & Company
MSRP
$29.95

This book is Number 43 of the “Middle Est War” series. The book is divided into eight sections from the takeover of the BA’ATH party in July, 1968 through the Iranian conflict in 1980. Some of the chapters/sections are in turn subdivided into sections explaining the chapter better. As stated above the book contains 86 photos of which 34 are of specific IrAF personalities, with seven of squadron personnel and the rest (45) being of airplanes.

The first chapter talks about how the BA’ATH Party through a coup-d-etat took over control of the country. The second chapter explains the Arab-Israeli war of 1974/75. The next three chapters touch on three individuals: Dulaymin, Sh’bans and Saddam Hussein. The last chapter touches on the IrAF of 1980.