Foredeck Part with Heavy Railings

U.S.S. Springfield

Sprues 5

Universal Carrier Mk.II

Right-front

F4F-4 Wildcat

Sprues 4

HMS Belfast

Crisp decal printing

Bf-109F-4 Jabo

Track Assembly

T-55 Mod. 1963 Interior Kit, Part 2

The rectangular attachments help with clean cutting and removal.

U.S. Navy UCAS X-47B

Radar parts on the sprue

Dornier Do 217J-1/J-2

Note protective sprues around props

L2D Type Zero Transport & C-47 Skytrain

Error Proofed

DKM H Class Battleship

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Custom Cadillac Lowrider
Review Author
Jim Stepanek
Published on
Company
Revell
Scale
1/25
MSRP
$24.95

Never built a lowrider and still haven’t. This looked a pretty cool kit and I didn’t have a land yacht in my collection

Engine

I have no idea about the size of the engine, but I remember Cadillacs used to have some huge displacement engines. The kit supplies only those parts for a stock build and those parts fit together very well.

Interior

Door panel and dash engraving was very crisp and easy to detail paint. Rear seat is molded in and the front seat a separate unit. Side panels are spate pieces which makes for easier painting. The interior is also flocked.

Package cover

F-104 C2 Ejection Seat
Review Author
Dan Brown
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.95

With the recent releases of the special edition F-104 kits from Eduard in 1/48 using Hasegawa plastic, Eduard has released the F-104 C2 ejection seat as a separate kit. The Lockheed C2 ejection seat was the most commonly used ejection seat for the F-104 in US service. It is a downward firing rocket propelled ejection seat.

This seat set is very simple. It contains the main seat frame, two seat options, rails, a small photoetch set and a small decal set. As this is a drop in replacement seat for the kit seat the assembly is very straight forward. Everything in the kit replaces the equivalently parts in the F-104 kit. The first step in the assembly is to remove the three large resin parts from the casting blocks, using a razor saw for this step. If you are careful minimal clean up will be needed. After clean up, wash the parts to remove the mold release agent that is often on resin parts.

Package Front

F-104 C2 Ejection Seat
Review Author
Dan Brown
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.95

With the recent releases of the special edition F-104 kits from Eduard in 1/48 using Hasegawa plastic, Eduard has released the F-104 C2 ejection seat as a separate kit. The Lockheed C2 ejection seat was the most commonly used ejection seat for the F-104 in US service. It is a downward firing rocket propelled ejection seat.

This seat set is very simple. It contains the main seat frame, two seat options, rails, a small photo etch set and a small decal set. As this is a drop in replacement seat for the kit seat the assembly is very straight forward. Everything in the kit replaces the equivalently parts in the F-104 kit. The first step in the assembly is to remove the three large resin parts from the casting blocks, use a razor saw for this step. If you are careful minimal clean will be needed. After clean up, wash the parts to remove the mold release agent that is often on resin parts.

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F-16C WA WA WA Nellis Vipers
Review Author
Dave Morrissette
Published on
Company
Twobobs Aviation Graphics
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$14.00

Twobobs always makes great decals and when this scheme popped up on the review list and included and arctic scheme aggressor, I knew I wanted to review it and build and F-16 in those colors. Inside the package are markings for two 1/48th scale F-16’s from 57th Wing at Nellis AFB. This group continues making aggressor schemes to mimic the newest schemes from our potential adversaries. In this case, the two schemes involved are the Arctic scheme with light gray/medium gray/very dark gray in bands around the jet for the first scheme and the second is the splinter scheme in blues and gray. Both jets are really nice looking but I wanted to focus on the Arctic bandit scheme.

Package Cover

F-104 MB. 7 Ejection Seat
Review Author
Dan Brown
Published on
Company
Eduard
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.95

With the recent releases of the special edition F-104 kits from Eduard in 1/48 using Hasegawa plastic, Eduard has released the F-104 MB. 7 ejection seat as a separate kit. The Martin-Baker Mk. Q7(A) ejection seat was a replacement ejection seat for the F-104 in European service. It replaced the original downward firing seats with the newer upward firing design. The reason for this change is that in foreign service the role of the F-104 was expanded and in low altitude flight with heavy wing loads there was a very high rate of failure with the original downward firing seats.