iModeler Reviews
Reviews of scale model kits, products and publications.
Review: iModeler Review – New Tool 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Vb
Some of you may well be asking why do we need another 1/48 Spitfire? Hasegawa, and Tamiya have both produced excellent kits of the Vb, and there are readily available kits by some of the short run producers - Whether or not any of these [...]
Review: iModeler Review – Airfix 1/72 Bristol Blenheim
Hot off the press – the new tool 1/72 scale Bristol Blenheim Mk1 by Airfix (£14.99 converts to $25 US). These, thankfully, bear no resemblance to the old tool Airfix Mk IV in terms of engineering, detail and, hopefully, build. The [...]
In Box Preview/review: Zoukei Mura 1/48 Kyushu J7W1 Shinden
The box (and its pretty dramatic "What-if" artwork) measures 30x21.5X7.5 cm (11.5x8.5x3 inches)so its not really overly large. (The Hasegawa box is about an inch longer and 2/3 as deep. Inside you will find it is very full with 5 [...]
iModeler Review: Kitty Hawk 1/48 F-101A/C Voodoo
This is taken from my review at Modeling Madness, with the complete collection of photos here.
Over the years, there have been a few kits of the McDonnell F-101A/C Voodoo, starting with - if I recall correctly - a box-scale kit from Revell [...]
iModeler Review: The terrible, no good, awful, fatally-flawed Eduard 1/48 Bf-109G-6 (not!)
Gerhard “Gerd” Barkhorn joined the Luftwaffe in 1937 and completed his pilot training in 1939. Flying combat with JG 52 through the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain in 1940, he remained scorelewss though he was shot down [...]
Review: Kinetic (Italeri) 1/48 E-2C Hawkeye – Deep Kit Review
As I promised, here I bring my review of Hawkeye kit. Enjoy your build!
This is going to be a kit review only, so if you would like to know history or anything else of this aircraft, you should look somewhere else.
At first, I should say [...]
Review: The (not so) “Great 109Gate” Brew-Ha-Ha
As with most Brew-Ha-ha's (that's an alcohol-fueled argument anyone outside of it will laugh at) at Hyperscale, the Great 109Gate Whine is mostly "overscale" in the amount of hot air expended by people who don't know what they're [...]
iModeler Review: Revell 1/48 Stearman PT-17
Revell 1/48 Stearman PT-17
Product ID: 85-5264
Overview
Skill Level: 3
Scale: 1/48
Length: 6-1/8"
Height: 2-5/16"
Wingspan: 8-3/16"
Parts: 60
The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane used as a military trainer aircraft, [...]
Review: A very serious book recommendation
As someone now recognized myself as a military historian, it's easy to say that the military historian who has been my greatest influence is Sir Max Hastings.
In case you missed his book released in Europe as "All Hell Let Loose" [...]
