Right

SH-3G Sea King Helicopter

Cockpit details

Sopwith Camel F.1

Fuselage Bottom

B-26B Marauder

Left-rear quarter view, above

Volllkettenaufklarer 38 w7.5cm Kanona 51 L24

Rear deck

German Main Battle Tank Leopard 1A3/A4

Kettenkraftrad road wheels and tracks

Sd.Kfz. 2 Kleines Kettenkraftrad Typ HK 101

Completed Model - Left Front

MK I "Female" British Tank, Somme Battle Period, 1916

Dashboard Closeup

Marvel Comics The Amazing Spiderman Volkswagen Beetle

Image 1

Fokker Dr1 Triplane

Finished Model - Left Rear

’63 Corvette Sting Ray

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Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020
Book Author(s)
David Grumitt
Review Author
Dana Mathes
Published on
Company
Pen and Sword Books Ltd
MSRP
$28.95

David Grummitt is an accomplished historian, author, and scale model builder. With his 2020 work, Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020, he has given the modeling community a comprehensive reference for this vehicle. More than a simple photographic history, this book is tailored to the needs of an armor modeler as it provides many photographs, drawings, kit reviews, and variant details.

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Turret for Panzer IV, Ausf. H
Review Author
Mike Lamm
Published on
Company
OKB Grigorov
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$16.25

OKB Grigorov produces resin kits and accessories. The kits are 1/700 submarines and 1/72 armor. The accessories are for 1/35 and 1/72 armor. I’ve built a couple of the kits, and some of the resin upgrade pieces, and they provide incredible detail.

This kit is an upgrade turret for any 1/72 Panzer IV kit, and I doubt you’ll find a better 1/72nd turret out there. The kit comes packed in a tiny box, but don’t let its size fool you, inside it packed with 36 highly detailed resin and photo-etch metal parts, as well as a metal barrel. There are 14 resin parts, and 22 metal pieces and each one is finely detailed.

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German Sd.Kfz. 247 Ausf B with Crew
Review Author
Eric Christianson
Published on
Company
ICM
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$65.97

History

This new ICM offering represents an unusual mark in a family of Sonderkraftfahrzeug (Sd.kfz.) ‘special purpose vehicles’ fielded by the German Wehrmacht in World War II. The diminutive Sd.Kfz. 247 was an armored staff car outfitted with radio gear, intended for use by the commanders of motorcycle and motorized reconnaissance battalions. The Ausf B version represented in this kit, was one of 58 built by Daimler-Benz between 1941—1942 on afour-wheel driveheavy car chassis (s.Pkw. Type 1c). The front-mounted engine was an 8-cylinder, 3.823-litre (233.3cuin)Horch3.5petrolengine, giving it a road speed of 80km/h (50mph). It had a maximum range of 400km (250mi).

Although unarmed, its armor was intended to stop7.92-millimetre (0.312in)armor-piercingbullets at ranges over 30 meters.

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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV. Volume 3 – The Armies of the Ottoman Empire 1645-1718
Book Author(s)
Bruno Mugnai
Review Author
Luke R. Bucci, PhD
Published on
Company
Helion & Company
MSRP
$59.95

Bruno Mugnai is a prolific author and illustrator who has specialized in history of eastern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries, ancient Italian states and South America after Spanish conquest. He has previously published titles for the Italian Army and Helion & Company (UK), including five volumes on Wars and Soldiers in the early Reign of Louis XIV, and the Cretan War (1645-1671). He also an illustrator for his books.

This book is No 55 of the Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 series by Helion, and is an update in English of the original title published in Italian in 1997. This time period saw warfare escalate into serious national business, fostering a steady stream of advances, changing rulers, nations and history. Pike to musket era. This book focuses on the Ottoman Empire armies that occupied much of Eastern Europe.

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F-104G/J, CF-104 Landing Gear
Review Author
Michael A. Turco
Published on
Company
Scale Aircraft Conversions
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$11.00

Scale Aircraft Conversions (SAC) is a Texas based company that has been marketing resin and white metal parts for scale model aircraft for over 20 years. They endeavor to be accurate in their moldings, claiming to correct inaccuracies if found. I have bought about a half dozen of their metal landing gear sets in the past, all of which have turned out to be excellent replacements for the plastic kit parts.

SAC’s two-piece landing gear set #72180 is labeled for the ‘60s vintage 1/72-scale Hasegawa F-104G/J, CF-104 kit but I find that the set matches the more recent 1990-issued F-104G/S landing gear as well. A comparison photo of the metal SAC main gear with the F-104G/S gear is shown herewith.