Hull Interior C

T-54-1 Model 1947 Soviet Medium Tank

4 radome & filler

Lockheed Martin F-104 Starfighter A/C

Finished Model, front

Zil-131 With Driver – Armed Forces of the Ukraine

Track parts

OKB Grigorov Soviet Heavy Tank SMK

completed 2

German Fokker E.III Eindekker

The decal sheet arrived in one piece, but here is cut into three pieces for each of the two versions of the kit. The lower left block has common markings, such as wing walks. The RAF version in on the top and the Argentinian version are on the lower right and middle.

Gloster Meteor MK 4

Right-side view of aircraft

Convair F-102A Delta Dagger Interceptor

Amid ships

"Q" Ship

Bottle Decals

German Cargo Truck L1500S

Nose close-up

F-14D Super Tomcat

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Package

B-17 E/F Waist Section PE Set

Review Author
Allan Murrell
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/32
MSRP
$29.95

This is a photoetch waist section set to for the Hong Kong Models B-17 E/F Kit number 01E04a. This set with two photoetch sheets one of which is colored. These sheets add a lot of detail to the waist gunner’s area of the fuselage in the B-17. These parts really add some great additional details to a great kit.

In the packet is:

  • 1 colored photoetch sheet
  • 1 photoetch sheet
  • 1 instruction sheet

Summary

This is another wonderful set for a kit that is great to begin with; these parts are an great details.

I did find one minor issue with the set - the parts 40, 8a, 8b, 11 and 66 show them being a symmetrical assembly but in fact there is only one location.

Please note that the gun barrels shown are from another aftermarket set I had.

Box art

Grim Reaper Chopper by Tom Daniels

Review Author
Doug Cole
Published on
Company
Monogram
Scale
1/8
MSRP
$32.95

Background

The Grim Reapers description on Revell’s website sums up the premise best, “The baddest of the bad is back and hotter than ever. Tom Daniel's devilishly designed Grim Reaper still has that mean, classic look 40 years after it was designed. The Grim Reaper starts with raked, custom, square-tubular forks and cool, dual-square headlights. Then, there's the "coffin" shaped gas tank on the custom frame with custom stitched seat, and "Iron Cross" medallion. It's all powered by a classic V-twin motor with down-swept chrome pipes. Kit features tons of chrome parts, flexible tubing for wiring, swing out kick stand, and soft black tires”.

Front Cover

Wings Over Mesopotamia, Air War in Iraq 1914-18
Book Author(s)
Mark Lax, Mike O'Connor, Ray Vann
Review Author
Frank Landrus
Published on
Company
Cross & Cockade International
MSRP
$31.99

Cross & Cockade International is a non-profit UK based group known as the First World War Aviation Historical Society that publishes their journal four times a year. They also provide a free newsletter (sign up on their website) and occasionally publish WWI themed books like the Lawrence of Arabia book I reviewed earlier for IPMS USA. This Journal is the sister of the US Journal, Over The Front.

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Acrylic White Putty
Review Author
Jim Pearsall
Published on
Company
Acrylicos Vallejo
MSRP
$3.95

Vallejo’s name is well recognized in the scale modeling field. They have a huge array of products, and their specialized modeling products line is one of the best in the world. At our last IPMS Chapter meeting, Keith Pieper of Avalon Books gave me a tube of Vallejo’s new white Plastic Putty.

The putty itself is an acrylic medium with white color and marble dust. The added marble dust makes the putty more durable than most.

The tube is fairly small, 20 ml., but with the fine applicator “spout”, it goes pretty much where I put it, so I have less waste of putty when I’m doing a seam. The first time I tried it, I put the putty on the cab of an Italeri Opel Blitz ambulance in 1/72, which needed a pretty good fill between the hood and the doors of the cab. After I let it set up overnight, I sanded the seam, and it worked pretty well. Because it’s white, it made painting easier, the color covered better than they would red or white putty. No primer required.

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Bf-109G Control Surfaces
Review Author
Floyd S. Werner Jr.
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$12.95

Packaged in the typical Brassin blister pack are seven pieces of perfect light grey resin and a single fret of photo etch.Instructions are included that show all the parts and how they are to be added.

The rudder, elevators, and ailerons with their mass weights are the resin pieces. The flight controls feature some stitching detail that is nicely done.

The modeler has to add the photo etch trim tabs to the control surfaces. Interestingly, the rudder and elevators have the trim tabs molded on so if you decide not to use the molded on trim tabs you have to remove them. The instructions are pretty straight-forward. The control surfaces are direct replacements for the kit parts.

If you want to articulate the surfaces, like I wanted to do, you will have to remove the molded on tabs and flush mount the control surfaces.