OKB Grigorov is a modeling company headquartered in Bulgaria. They do 3D printing, resin and photo etch items. Their inventory includes complete kits, track sets, figures and detail sets. I have now built two of their resin kits and have found them to be of the highest quality. There is no flash, no huge molding blocks to remove and the detail is very finely executed. Don’t go here looking for another Panzer IV or Tiger kit as they specialize in some rather esoteric subjects.

The subject of this review is their 1/72 scale kit of the U.S. Honest John missile. This was the first missile the U.S. produced capable of delivering an atomic warhead, although it could also carry a conventional one. It was ballistically “guided”, launched from a truck-mounted launching rail and was used by numerous countries, only coming out of the front-line U.S. inventory in 1983.

The kit consists of eight nicely cast pieces, two of which comprise its display base. It goes together quickly and easily, although due to the closeness of the tolerances, you need to make sure the joints fit together easily. I needed to slightly thin the locating tabs for the fins to get them to slide into their slots. There are no decals provided. The missile in the field was just normal OD green with a US Army on the sides. Kind of blah. So, I used one of the many test markings it bore during its development to add a little pzazz to the presentation.

The only real drawback to this kit is that no one makes the truck launcher in 1/72 scale. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t even able to find the correct truck in that scale to convert to a launcher, so for now you just have a nice museum-style display.

I want to thank OKB Grigorov for providing this review sample and IPMS/USA for the chance to take a look at it and share it with you.