Finished model

Yak-23 "Flora"

view of finished model

Sd.Kfz. 1381 Geschutzwagen 38 H fur s. JG.331

Body painting

U.S. Cougar 6x6 MRAP Vehicle

Finished

Chinese Navy Type 056 Class Corvette

With aircraft added

Pierced Steel Planking and Accessories

Right rear

A-6 Intruder Egg Plane

Finished

Soviet Military Airfield 1980s

Complete 2

Milk Trike

Completed

KDA-1 (Q-2A) Firebee with Trailer

Box Art

Jackal 1 High Mobility Weapon Platform

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Navy Deck Crew (Modern Crew)
Review Author
Rod Lees
Published on
Company
Videoaviation
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$34.11

Videoaviation is a small company out of Italy manufacturing big things; in this case, they provide large scale modelers the items missing from many of our 1/32 models to bring them to life, particularly in a diorama setting if you have room! In this case, a crew of modern day carrier crew members in action poses.

First, kudos to Videoaviation for providing total instructions, including basic painting for the figures. Some still do not have internet capability (gasp) so this is important. I found the instructions helpful.

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Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf D
Review Author
Tom Moon
Published on
Company
Dragon Models
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$16.99

This is a plastic only kit comprised of about 62 styrene parts, no photo etched parts fret, and a standard set of instructions, they need to be reviewed carefully before gluing any parts together.

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F-4 Phantom "Vietnam Aces"
Review Author
Camden Koukol
Dave Koukol
Published on
Company
Italeri
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$24.99

Background

Originally developed as the Navy's primary fleet defense interceptor in the 1950'ss, the F-4 Phantom II rapidly evolved into the mainstay multiple fighter for the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps by the mid '60's. During the Vietnam War air war, the Phantom became the exclusive mount of all 6 American "ace" (airmen scoring 5 or more air-to-air victories) emerging from that conflict.

In this release, Italeri presents 4 of the F-4's flown by Americas Vietnam aces. Markings and parts options are included for Navy F-4J "Showtime 100" flown by Randy Cunningham and Willy Driscoll, Air Force F-4C flown by Robin Olds, an F-4D flown by Jeff Feinstein, and an F-4D flown by Steve Ritchie and Chuck DeBellevue.

Product packaging

Black Bunny F-4J VX-4 Decals
Review Author
Rob Benson
Published on
Company
Furball Aero-Design
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.96

Thank you to Furball Aero-Design for providing excellent specific markings set for this very unique aircraft. I am certain that F-4 fans will be thrilled with this set! Thank you to the IPMS Reviewer Corps for letting me review them, I am very appreciative of the chance to contribute back to the scale-modeling community.

The words that capture this decal set are “stunning detail.” Furball chose the striking color scheme of Vandy 1, the gloss black test F-4J aircraft operated by VX-4, providing both the original 1969 markings and the later “bunny” markings. What makes this set different from kit decals and aftermarket decal sets are the nearly 200 crisply-printed stencils printed in white. Modelers often correctly make the argument that stencils are often quickly worn off and not visible, but this aircraft was maintained in “high-polish” with all markings likely there.

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Fokker (ProfiPack Edition) German WWI Fighter
Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$39.95

Eduard has re-released this kit from 2008 as a ProfiPack of the Fokker Dr.1 with markings for six versions included in the Aircraft.

In the box is;

  • 3 x light grey sprues
  • 1 film sheet
  • 1 large decal sheet
  • 1 mask sheet
  • 1 photoetch detail set
  • 1 instruction booklet

The kit consists of 3 main sprues, the sprues are extremely well molded with a little flash but great detail; the decals allow you to finish the aircraft in two different versions with 6 markings to choose from.

Construction

First is the construction of the interior which is well detailed. Photo Etch helps a lot to make this a very impressive cockpit. The fuselage halves joint perfectly.

Next, you join the middle wing.

At this stage, I choose to paint the main colors and add the main decals as I selected to build the D scheme.