Junkers Ju 87B Top Drawings Series

Published: October 3, 2018
Book Author(s): Maciej Noszcak
Company: Casemate Publishers

The book is a top drawings series from Kagero and is a Visual study of the Junkers Ju 87B Dive Bomber of the Luftwaffe in World War II.

I found this book full of fascinating scale drawings and profiles of all the variants of the Ju 87B. There are 7 sheets of 1/48 scale drawings and 8 sheets of 1/72 scale drawings. There are also 10 color profiles of aircraft. These drawings are very… more

Cessna T-41 Mescalero

Published: September 30, 2018
Company: Omega Models

This is Omega Models all resin T-41 which is the US armed forces version of the popular Cessna 172, The kit can be used to build both a US Army or US Air Force aircraft.

In the box is:

• 6 x strips of molded resin parts
• 1 film sheet
• 2 x vacuum formed clear parts
• 2 x small decal sheets
• 1 wire
• 1 instruction sheet

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Space 1999 Hawk Mk IX

Published: September 24, 2018
Company: Round 2 Models

This is an all-new tooled version of the Hawk and is far superior to the original Airfix version.

This is a kit of the Hawk MIX from Space 1999, this spacecraft appeared in the episode “Wargames”, the kits allows you to build two versions one used in the show and a pre-production version which is the one I opted for.

In the box is:

• 4 x light grey sprues
• 1… more

German Heavy Tank Sd.Kfz.182 King Tiger (Porsche Turret)

Published: September 16, 2018
Company: Meng Model

This is a new version of the King Tiger following up on the release of the Henschel version last year. My first impression was wow what a very well detailed kit. I did review this kit with the addition of the Interior set SPS-062 and Zimmerit Set SPS-060 so the picture will include parts not included in this kit. You can see my reviews of these on this site also. The set is very impressive… more

Sd.Kfz. 182 King Tiger (Porsche Turret) Zimmerit Decal Set

Published: September 16, 2018
Company: Meng Model

This is a Zimmerit Decal set for the Meng Model Sd.Kfz. 182 King Turret (Porsche Turret) kit TS-037.

The set contains one sheet of textured decals and one instruction sheet.

Zimmerit was widely used on the early King Tigers. These decals will make adding the Zimmerit a lot easier.

The decals are printed onto one sheet with the patterns in relief. Individual decals are… more

German Heavy Tank Sd.Kfz.182 King Tiger (Porsche Turret) Interior Set

Published: September 1, 2018
Company: Meng Model

The Interior kit is includes a lot of steps and refers to what parts/build steps from the main tank kit you need to do to build the whole tank correctly which is a great help and very easy to follow. There are also several parts that will not be used as they are from the other version of the King Tiger with the Henschel turret. Also a very good idea is the amount of painting instruction… more

IDF F-CK-1C/D Landing Gear

Published: August 24, 2018
Company: Scale Aircraft Conversions

This is a white metal landing gear set is to for the AFV Kit IDF F-CK-1C/D 1/48th Scale aircraft.

The white metal parts are good are have better-defined details than the original kit parts. They are a very good replacement for the already well details kit parts. The advantage is these white metal parts will provide more strength than the kit parts. The parts included replacing the… more

From Moscow to Stalingrad

Published: July 21, 2018
Book Author(s): Yves Buffetaut
Company: Casemate Publishers

The book goes into great detail German Campaign on the Eastern front 1941 to 1942.

It covers Germans path from Moscow to Stalingrad which was full of successes and failures for both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army.

I found this book very interesting and fascinating. It was full of such a lot of information and some fantastic photographs that I had never seen before. This whole… more

FW-190A-5/8, R-2/8, F-8 Landing Gear

Published: June 11, 2018
Company: Scale Aircraft Conversions

This is a white metal landing gear set is to for the Eduard 1/72 Fw 190A-5/8, R-2/8, F-8 aircraft.

The white metal parts are very good and have more defined details than the original kit parts. They are a very good replacement for the already well-detailed kit parts. The advantage is these white metal parts will provide more strength and last longer than the kit parts.

The… more

Panther in Action

Published: February 3, 2020
Book Author(s): David Doyle
Company: David Doyle Books

The book is one of the Squadron Signal series “in Action”. It explores the history and development of the Panther tank and its Variants. I have always loved the Panther design and was very happy to have this book to review. The pictures of the Panther in the book are fantastic.

The book has some extremely interesting and diverse photos of the iconic Panther, there are over 180… more