Assembly almost completed

Soviet T-64 Mod 1972

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Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Overhead starboard

IJNMS Yamato, Part 4, Final Assembly

T14 Front

T14 Armata - Object 148

Right side

Bf-109E-4, Part 2

Bottom

U.S. Scooter - Airborne

Space Wolf 02

Space Wolf SW-190

Interior

Go Mad Nomad

Face

US Navy Pilot WWII Pacific Theater

PE, Decals and Cables

U.S. M1 57mm Anti-Tank Gun on M2 Carriage (Late Version)

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The Soviet Battle for Berlin, 1945
Book Author(s)
Ian Baxter
Review Author
Andy Taylor
Published on
Company
Casemate Publishers

The Battle for Berlin was the cumulative battle in the European theater in World War II. Three massive Russian Fronts aligned from north to south (Second Belorussian, First Belorussian and First Ukrainian Fronts) had battered two German Army Groups (Vistula and Center) and the three armies (Third and Fourth Panzer Army and Ninth Army) westward from October 1944 to mid-April 1945 to set the stage for the final onslaught and bloody Battle for Berlin.

Author Ian Baxter has once again provided a succinct, well researched and presented book on a complicated and seminal campaign.Using period photographs, illustrated pages, tables and immaculate references, this book provides the reader with the harrowing and horrifying last months and days of the Third Reich.

The Soviet Battle for Berlin, 1945 is composed of eleven chapters:

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MINURSO: United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, Peace Operation Stalled in the Desert, 1991-2021
Book Author(s)
Janos Besenyo
Review Author
Luke R. Bucci, PhD
Published on
Company
Helion & Company
MSRP
$29.95

Number 64 in Helion’s Africa @ War Series details the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping efforts for the past 20+ years from the former on-the-ground head of the UN mission. The book illustrates what it is like to oversee trying to keep groups of nomadic tribes that have been warring for centuries over some of the most inhospitable areas on planet Earth from continuing the process. Not pretty or heroic. A treatise on absurdity. This book was painful to read, but a reviewer’s duty and morbid curiosity won out. Tip: the history chapter alone is worth the effort to read this book!

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German 75mm Ammo Crates w/Rope Handles
Review Author
Michael Reeves
Published on
Company
Value Gear
Scale
1/16
MSRP
$12.50

Value Gear resin products are well known to most modelers for the excellent quality resin stowage and gear to use on your models and diorama scenes. Owner Steve Munsell is a quality guy who, more often than not, throws in some extra pieces into most of the packages and one package can often inhabit more than a couple builds if used wisely- or you can completely deck out one model if you wish. His 1/16 product lines are growing as more companies release more 1/16 scale kits.

What’s Inside the Box

This set contains a small zip bag with five 75mm ammo crates for whatever 1/16 scale StuG or Panzer is sitting in your stash. A card with preparation and priming instructions are included. The quality is excellent in this scale and one might want to ding them up a bit to add some variety to the five– but the details of the wood grain, nail holes for the cross slats, and strap enclosures are amazing.

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BF-109 A/E Accessory Set
Review Author
Robert Head
Published on
Company
Hauler Brengun
Scale
1/144
MSRP
$10.00

Brengun has issued another photoetch/resin accessory set for small scale aircraft modelers. This set is designed for use by Armory Model Group offering the German Bf-109, specifically the Bf-109A/E.

Typically, small scale (1/144th) aircraft kits come with two complete models in the box and Armory Model Group is no exception. Brengun provides detailed bits for two kits. Those bits include the following pieces for the:

  • Main Wheels
  • Tail Wheels
  • Wheel Covers
  • Stabilizer struts
  • Antenna
  • Wing antenna and AOA probes

While this accessory set is designed for use with the Armory Model Group kit, I don’t believe you would have any issues using it on a sweet or other similar kit.

There are a few photoetch bits that you may wish to leave on the fret. I plan on using them on my kit as a test of my eyesight and building ability, so look out for another future review on this set.

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Messerschmitt BF110D/E
Review Author
Robert Head
Published on
Company
Iliad Design
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$14.00

This 1/48 scale decal set, available from Iliad Design, provides markings options for 5 different BF-110’s. They cover 5 variants from a day, night and desert fighter. Of particular interest is a 110 that was specially painted, designed and equipped as the personal fighter of Rudolf Hess when he flew to Scotland.

The five options are: