Finished Kit 4

T-2 Buckeye "Anniversary Markings"

Finished Model - Right Rear

Beechcraft Bonanza F33

Small Interior Sub Assemblies

P-39 Q/N Airacobra

Exhaust

Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II

Detail

German U-XXIII Coastal Submarine

Finished model

P-39K/N

Finished Model - Stack Closeup

HMS Roberts

Completed left side

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Bubbletop"

Completed overhead view

SP-2H Neptune "New Patrol Scheme" Limited Edition

Right front

Messerschmitt Me-410B-2/U4

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Box Art

German 8.8cm Panzerjagerkanone PaK 43
Review Author
Tom Moon
Published on
April 26, 2011
Company
Trumpeter
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$47.95

Layout of the Sprues:

  1. Sprue A - Cruciform base and extension legs
  2. Sprue A4 – Cruciform base top
  3. Sprue B – Parts for Travel carriages and bits for Cruciform base
  4. Sprue C x 2 – Parts for Travel carriages and bits for Cruciform base
  5. Sprue D – Shield and base parts of the Gun
  6. Sprue E – Plastic barrel and small parts of the gun
  7. Sprue WA – Shells and shell casings
  8. Photo Etch A – Shield
  9. Photo Etch B – More shield parts and ready round box
  10. Photo Etch C – Shell base
  11. Other Parts – Metal Barrel, metal tube, Rubber tires

Steps 1, 2, & 3 – Building of the Cruciform base

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German 7.62 cm Pak36(r) Anti-tank Gun
Review Author
Tom Moon
Published on
April 26, 2011
Company
Bronco Models
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$34.95

Sprues

  • A – This sprue contains the barrel, shield, and gun cradle
  • B – This sprue contains the ammo and ammo crates
  • C x 2 – Tires
  • E – This spure contains the tubular ammo cases
  • G – This sprue contains parts for the gun, shield, gun cradle and a lot of unused parts from Kit 35045
  • H x 2 – This has the wheel and hand wheels
  • N – This has the trails and associated bits
  • P – Photo Etched parts

This kit is a representation of the rebuild of a captured Soviet Divisional Gun. The anti-tank performance of the F-22 divisional gun was inferior to the 7.5cm PaK40. However, the Germans had captured over 500 of these guns and made use of them.

Box Art

Focke Wulf FW-189 A2
Review Author
Rod Lees
Published on
April 26, 2011
Company
Great Wall Hobby
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$55.00

Thanks first go to Dragon USA for providing us this excellent new release; Can’t say enough as to how generous our suppliers are who provide these kits, which we at IPMS sincerely appreciate!

Kitset packaging

Ta 154 Night Exhaust

Review Author
Mike Hinderliter
Published on
April 26, 2011
Company
Quickboost
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$5.95

Quickboost just keeps adding to their line of resin aircraft accessories. The latest addition is for the Hasegawa Ta 154. It is up to their usual standards; molded in grey resin, smooth, seamless and bubble free. One thing of note is that they are really easy to remove from the mold block because of a nice perforation. It only took me a couple of minutes with my saw blade to remove them.

The night exhausts that come in the Hasegawa kit look alright and would make an acceptable model, but the kit parts are 2 pieces, so they have a seam that will need to be fixed. The Quickboost replacements are one-piece, and just look a lot better when along side the kit parts. They are very easy to install, and they just fit right in.

Bagged decals and instruction sheet

Instrument Dial Decals- WW2 Luftwaffe
Review Author
Floyd S. Werner Jr.
Published on
April 25, 2011
Company
Airscale Model Aircraft Enhancements
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$7.50

Ever since the days of Waldron Instrument Bezels I’ve wanted to be able to build instrument panels like I saw the pros do. The biggest thing preventing me was the lack of instrument decals. Well those days are over. Airscale has now released a sheet of Luftwaffe instruments designed specifically for fighters. You get a small sheet of approximately 1”x 2” which contains enough instruments to do a couple of instrument panels.

Printed by Fantasy Printshop, every instrument is accurately reproduced with some exquisitely fine range markings and numbers. Airscale recommends cutting out the instruments. I think you can use your Waldron Punch and Die set as well if you are careful.

Also included in the set is a piece of clear acetate to help you replicate the instrument faces on your scratch built panel. You’ll need a punch set to punch out the acetate sheet as there is no ‘cutouts’ for the instruments.