Top view

German Soldier-Bicyclist, 1939-1942

Sprue E

Panzer III Ausf M with Wading Muffler

Finished

Sikorsky CH-54A Tarhe with Universal Military Pod

Left Front View

Japanese Airfield Fire Extinguisher

Fuselage bottom

Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II

Finished Model - Rear

Foose '69 Camaro Z/28

Engine and prop

FE.2b early Part 5

Assembled 3

Warehouse Two Wheeled Hand Truck

Sprue J

The Super Wing Series He-219 Uhu, First Impressions

Paint callout example

OS2U Kingfisher

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Kagero Super Drawings in 3D SMS Derfflinger
Book Author(s)
Marsden Samuel & Gary Staff
Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
Company
Kagero Publishing
MSRP
$37.00

The book provides great 3D style detail drawings of the German Battle Cruiser SMS Derfflinger. The Derfflinger was built in early 1910 and was considered to be the best of the Battle Cruisers up until the end of World War One.

The book is pack full of amazing pictures of the ship from all angles and showing all the finer details of the ship’s make up. The details are fantastic and provide much for any modeler who wishes to super detail a model of the ship.

There is also a pull out outline drawing of the ship in 1/350 scale including a hull “cut-through “for the length pf the ship.

I recommend this book to everyone with an interest in the SMS Derfflinger or any war ship for that matter, and this is a must for anyone going to build a model of this ship. In fact, I am now off to build my Flyhawk 1/700 Model of this ship with the book as all the reference material I will need.

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Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet - Kit Build 5
Book Author(s)
Adrian Wolnicki, Sebastian Piechowiak
Review Author
Phil Pignataro
Published on
Company
Kagero Publishing
MSRP
$24.95

The F/A-18E Super Hornet is the US Navy’s truly ubiquitous aircraft. It’s their main fighter and attack platform as well as its electronic warfare aircraft, the E/A-18G Growler. Model manufactures followed the Navy’s lead and have produced numerous kits of this aircraft in all the popular scales. Consequently, Kagero recently released a publication in their “Kit Build” series about this fighter. The paperback chronicles model builds of two Super Hornet kits: Academy’s 1/72 scale and Eduard’s 1/48 scale F/A-18E’s. Color photos document progress of the build while short paragraphs of text offer further explanations. The last four pages of the book contain eight color profiles of “E” and “F” versions - four apiece. As a bonus, a small masking sheet for the canopies of 1/72 and 1/48 models is included in the book.

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Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Book Author(s)
Dennis R. Jenkins
Review Author
Phil Peterson
Published on
Company
Specialty Press
MSRP
$60.00

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was designed to deliver a tactical nuclear weapon against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. However, it gained it’s fame over the jungles of Vietnam where they flew 159,795 combat missions from which 334 failed to return home.

This hard cover book contains 300 pages and 575 pictures in black and white and color. It covers the full history of the plane from preliminary designs and competitors through the Vietnam War, and ending with the Thud Out which was flown at Hill AFB, Utah, about 45 minutes north of me.

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Paradise Afire Volume 3: The Sri Lankan War 1990-1994
Book Author(s)
Adrien Fontanellaz
Review Author
Paul R. Brown
Published on
Company
Helion & Company
MSRP
$29.95

The book is volume 17 of Helion & Company’s Asia@War series and, as noted in the title, is the third volume of its coverage of the civil war in Sri Lanka. The book includes over 50 black and white photographs, both of government and LTTE forces, 7 pages of color profiles depicting the aircraft, ships and vehicles of the security forces as well as the uniforms of both military and LTTE participants. There are also several maps of some of the more significant operations and a color map of Sri Lanka.

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Churchill Tank Light Cast Resin Tracks
Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
Company
OKB Grigorov
MSRP
$14.50

This product is replacement resin tracks for any 1/72 Churchill Tank kit that you want to use the Light Cast tracks on.

The set includes 6 light grey resin strips of track more than enough for a single tank.

The detail is excellent and vey little flash and a breeze to cut of the runners.

The tracks are easily formed using a hair dryer to apply heat then form the track on the track rollers, wheels and Sprockets.

They are a great replacement for the rubber tracks supplied with the majority of the 1/72 scale kits on the market.

I recommend these parts are a great addition to any 1/72 Churchill tank model kit.

Thanks go to OKB Grigorov for providing this set to review and IPMS USA for allowing me to review it for them.