Fantail

Kagero Destroyer

Full Frontal View Complete.

SdKfz. 2 Kettenkrad

Accessory Sprue

American Gasoline Loaders (1910s)

Floor Gap

Mi-24/35 Mk. III SuperHind

Scar from adding extra nose weight

S-2A Tracker

Decals

TA-4 Skyhawk Israeli Air Force

Cockpit complete 2

F4U-1 Corsair, Part 1 – Fuselage and Cockpit

Turrets (Tiran on left)

Tiran 5 Israeli Tank

Tracks, decals, and photo etch parts

Pz.Kpfw.V Panther Ausf. G Late

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P-40K-1/5 Warhawk 'Short Fuselage'

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Packaging

UH-1D ARC-102 Antenna Mounts
Review Author
Rob Booth
Published on
Company
Werners Wings
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$5.00

Werner’s Wings is a Baltimore, MD based firm that offers decals and resin detail parts for scale modelers. Founder Floyd Werner has been around scale modeling for many years, and is one of the hobby’s leading authorities on US Army rotary wing aircraft (not just through modeling, but from years of very personal experience!), and WWII Luftwaffe fighters. A quick search of the IPMS Review or other modeling-related sites will yield plenty of background on his considerable modeling skills and knowledge.

Floyd’s passion for detail in modeling modern rotary aircraft subjects is evident in this release of resin antenna mounts to replicate the stand-off mounts used for the wire antenna array on Bell’s UH-1D in 48th scale. The subjects of these sets continue Werner’s Wings commitment to providing quality resin and metal detailing sets and decals for rotor-modeling interests.

Packaging

Macchi C205 Veltro White Metal Landing Gear
Review Author
Rob Booth
Published on
Company
Scale Aircraft Conversions
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$16.95

Scale Aircraft Conversions has produced replacement gear for the Hasegawa/Italeri 1/48 scale Macchi C205 Veltro kits. The white metal replacements are a clean drop-in for the kit plastic parts. I have reviewed several of these replacement gear packages, and purchased many more on my own. I have always found them to be at least equal, and usually superior to the kit parts in detailing, with the added benefit of superior strength.

The supplied items in this issue include the two main gear strut and actuator assemblies, and two tail gear struts with the tail wheel molded in place (check your reference photos). Some other SAC packages include replacement main gear wheels, as well, but not the case here. You will need to use the kit wheels or other replacements for your build.

Kit parts

Kfir C2/C7 Antennas for AMK Kit
Review Author
Dave Morrissette
Published on
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$6.00

Quickboost, which is part of Aires, is known for their wonderful and simple kit enhancements which are drop in or require slight surgery. This set is for the wonderful AMK 1/48th Kfir kit and is a replacement set of antennae. It consists of six resin parts on a small casting block which replace five of the kit parts. Parts 1,2 4 and 5 are listed as direct replacement while part 3 requires the removal of the molded-on kit part. All of the casting is superb and the parts are finer than the corresponding kit parts.

Going through the parts individually:

Package

Jeannin Stahltaube Landing Gear & Wire Supts. (WNW)
Review Author
Bill O'Malley
Published on
Company
Scale Aircraft Conversions
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$21.95

Scale Aircraft Conversions produces white metal replacement parts for kit details such as landing gear. This set provides metal landing gear, plow brake, upper & lower cable support struts, and outside wing cable supports for the WingNut Wings 1/32 Jeannin Stahltube plastic kit. These detail parts come in a 2 1/2”x 3 1/2”x 1” blister pack containing eight sprues with 12 parts. Parts include the main landing gear, plow brake, and the upper and lower struts and turnbuckles for the wing rigging cables.

Front Cover

Operation Market Garden Paratroopers Vol. 3
Book Author(s)
Piotr Witkowski, Color by Andrzej Glinski
Review Author
Frank Landrus
Published on
Company
Mushroom Model Publications - MMP Books
MSRP
$26.40

This tome appears to be Piotr Witkowski’s third book in English and it’s a follow up to Volume 2 of his Operational Market Garden Paratroopers that focused on small arms and specialized equipment used by 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. The positive feedback he received from Volume 1 and 2 encouraged him to get this volume published. You can find my reviews on Volume I and II at the IPMS USA Review website. I’ve found two prior books in Polish: Polskie jednostki powietrzno-desantowe na zachodzie (Bellona, 2009) and a second edition of this book titled: Spadochroniarze Sosabowskiego: Dzieje polskich jednostekpowietrznodesantowych 1939-1945 (Bellona, 2012).