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Panda Bumerang IFV (Object K-17)

Published: July 10, 2017
Company: Panda Hobby

At the 2015 Russian Army May Day Victory parade, the world got its first official view of Russia’s latest family of armored fighting vehicles. This new series of vehicles presented a new doctrine for Russian armament, design and ultimately survivability by creating a modular system to work across multiple platforms similar to what the U.S. Army attempted with their Future Combat Systems. The “… more

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Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II

Published: June 28, 2017
Book Author(s): Steven J. Zaloga; Illustrators: Henry Morshead
Company: Osprey Publishing

Osprey’s latest publication is this study of the types of tanks shipped to the Soviet Union starting in late 1941 and continuing through the end of the war under the Lend-Lease Program. Due to their armor losses following the success of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army desperately needed replacements and turned to their allies for help.

This book details the number and… more

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Churchill Mk.IV AVRE

Published: February 3, 2020
Company: Dragon Models

The Churchill Mk. IV infantry tank was the most produced version of the Churchill. It was used as a basis for a number of special models including the Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE), a combat engineer vehicle designed for destroying enemy fortifications. After the failure of the Dieppe landings, it was realized that there needed to be a way to effectively handle enemy defensive… more

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Type 92 Jyo-Sokosha Tank

Published: May 3, 2017
Company: Croco Models

Croco Models is a small model manufacturer from the Republic of Latvia. They’ve recently begun developing small kits of rare vehicles, and various model building accessories. Their first model kit is of an early Japanese cavalry tank, the Type 92 Jyu-Sokosha. As far as I can tell from a quick internet search, this is the only 1/72 kit of this tank available.

The Type 92 was the first… more

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World War II German Motorized Infantry & Panzergrenadiers

Published: May 2, 2017
Book Author(s): Author: Nigel Thomas, PhD, Illustrator: Johnny Shumate
Company: Osprey Publishing

At the start of World War II, Germany’s advancements in mobile warfare shocked the world with their speed, ferocity, and success on the battlefield as they swept across Europe. Although, not always successful at the start, Germany was the first army to combine tanks, artillery, air power, and mobile infantry into a dominating force on the battlefield. Over the course of the war, the Allied… more

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Venturi Tubes

Published: April 30, 2017
Company: Croco Models

Croco Models is a small model manufacturer from the Republic of Latvia. They’ve recently begun developing small kits of rare vehicles, and various model building accessories. One of their more recent products is a set of 1/72 scale Venturi tubes. The Venturi tube is used to measure a plane's airspeed, and although most planes now use a Pitot tube for measuring this, Venturi tubes were common… more

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Model Art Modeling Magazine No. 962

Published: April 16, 2017
Company: Model Art

Model Art Modeling Magazine is a monthly periodical from Japan providing an abundance of modeling subjects in each issue. It doesn’t matter what your modeling focus is, each issue will provide something of interest for you, and more than likely, you’ll find something interesting that you didn’t know you would.

The magazine is published in Japanese, but even if you can’t read Japanese,… more

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Kursk 1943: The Southern Front

Published: April 9, 2017
Book Author(s): Author: Robert Forczyk, PhD - Illustrator: Graham Turner
Company: Osprey Publishing

Following the catastrophic loss at Stalingrad, Hitler was desperate to regain the initiative in Russia. The Russian army capitalized on their success at Stalingrad, with victories over the Hungarians and Italians, and pushed on to Kursk and Kharkov with relative ease. The Russians fully expected the German army, which was in disarray, to pull back beyond the Dniepr River. However, a timely… more

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Haunebu II

Published: April 6, 2017
Company: Squadron Products

When Squadron decided to produce an original plastic model kit, they really went all in with the top secret German Haunebu II project. For those of you not familiar with the Haunebu II, it was either a functioning flying machine that took members of the Third Reich to a hidden base on the dark side of the moon, a fabled “wunderwaffe” that never made it off the drawing board, or something in… more

Product is made to look like a VHS tape, with wear and stickers like found in an '80s video rental shop

Tales from the Apocalypse: The Truck Driver

Published: March 26, 2017
Company: Gecco

The Truck Driver is the second in a series of kits called Tales of the Apocalypse. The title for this kit is “Day 1, 11:50am on freeway”, and the figure represents an unfortunate truck driver who died in a horrific crash after his body was propelled through the windshield head first! Although his body is smashed and torn from the impact of the crash, his reanimated corpse is now stalking his… more