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European Hay Wagon

Sprues

Seafire FR Mk. 47 "The Last Royal Navy Propeller Fighter"

Port Access Panels

Part 2 - Henschel Hs-129B-2/RIII Wings, Cowlings and Things!

Wing and stab sprue

TBM-3 Avenger from USS Bunker Hill

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15cm Field Howitzer/10.5cm Field Gun

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AH-1G Cobra (Early Production)

From left-rear, this shot shows the fine weld lines and the deck detail, including screens, and no-seam spare fuel tanks.

Russian Heavy Tank KV-85

Statues for archways

The Colosseum

Artillery Tractor Sprue 8

Russian Artillery Tractor T-20 (Late)

Finished rig

Freightliner With Trailer

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Centurion Mk. 3 Korean War
Review Author
Patrick Brown
Published on
Company
AFV Club
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$60.00

Bottom Line Up Front

AFV Club continues to rule the Centurion market with its latest offering. This is a very good kit overall. It comes with tasty value-added features like a turned aluminum barrel and photoetch parts. The detail is sharp and the fit is excellent. The kit is marred by some unnecessarily complicated moving parts that make two aftermarket part sets a must if the modeler wants to have a first-rate build.

History

The Centurion is one of those tanks that just will not fade away with time. It just missed major action in WW2 by a few weeks so it’s first real trial was in Korea. This kit faithfully represents the 20-pounder armed Mk. 3 which was fielded in that conflict. This was the version which was still in service (with some modifications to the gun barrel) with the British Army in 1956 during Operation Musketeer, the invasion of the Suez Canal Zone.

Box Art

Alfa Romeo 2300 8C Monza Race Car
Review Author
Michael A. Turco
Published on
Company
Italeri
Scale
1/12
MSRP
$298.99

The Kit

Italeri’s new multi-media Alfa Romeo 2300 8C “Monza” race car kit comes in an impressive box measuring 22” x 11” x 4-1/2” (Photo 1). An illustration of the box contents is shown on one of the box lid flaps (Photo 2). Upon opening the box, you find a 28-page instruction booklet, four plastic bags containing 10 styrene sprues, including duplicates of the “D” and “G” sprues, two bags of hardware with various sized screws and nuts, a decal sheet, masking sheet, steel photoetch sheet, nylon mesh sheet, rubber tires, copper wire, rope and rubber tubing (Photo 3). The kit offers using either masks or decals for the No. 28 race car driven by the famous Italian driver Tazio Nuvolari, a nice feature. To try both for the purpose of this build review, I masked the radiator No. 28 and used decals for the body numbers. I used the length of rope to replicate its use as heat protection on the exhaust pipe in the Nuvolari car.

Product

Wasp Flamethrower Jeep
Review Author
Gino Dykstra
Published on
Company
Meng Model
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$37.50

Meng sure does like to pop up now and then with the unique. This model is a case in point – a model of the single prototype flamethrower jeep developed for the British special services unit referred to as “Popski’s Private Army.” Why this particular concept didn’t take off isn’t really too hard to grasp. Imagine running around behind enemy lines in a completely unarmored vehicle with several gallons of extremely volatile fluids under pressure in tanks at your back. A single stray bullet could really ruin the crew’s entire day, I would think. The only effective way to survive a patrol in this contraption would be with the sincere hope that you have the element of surprise. Otherwise . . .

Meng has made a terrific little kit here of this one-off machine. The only non-styrene addition is the flexible tubing meant to attach the flamethrower gun to the fluid tank. Otherwise this is an extremely straight-forward and enjoyable single evening build.

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AFV Stryker Dragoon
Review Author
Michael Novosad
Published on
Company
AFV Club
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$69.99

Brief History from Wikipedia

The IAV (Interim Armored Vehicle) Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III. Stryker vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada for the United Staes Army. It has 4-wheel drive (8×4) and can be switched to all-wheel drive (8×8). The vehicle is named for two unrelated U.S. soldiers who posthumously received the Medal of Honorr: Private First Class Stuart S Stryker, who died in World War II, and Specialist Four Robert F Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.

In April 2019, the Army decided to add cannon armament to Stryker DVH ICVVA1 vehicles in three brigades; the first is planned to be equipped in 2022

Product

Bench-Mate Aircraft Jig for 72nd and 48th Scales
Review Author
Dick Montgomery
Published on
Company
Masterpiece Models
Scale
1/72 to 1/48
MSRP
$29.99

Copied from the Masterpiece Models website, About Masterpiece Models, “Masterpiece Models manufactures and sells the highest quality resin assembly kits on the market today. Featuring kits for a variety of interests including WWII, Vietnam, Sci-fi, and aircraft bases. We have acquired the rights to a large selection of the Custom Dioramics line that are now available through us as resin assembly kits. Our kits are manufactured at our Vancouver, Washington, USA fabrication and casting shop.”