iModeler Reviews
Reviews of scale model kits, products and publications.
Review: Magic Factory F4U Corsairs
The F4U Corsair was designed by Vought Aircraft in response to a 1938 BuAer RFP for a fleet defense fighter. The prototype appeared in 1940, the first fighter to be powered by the new Pratt & Whitney R-2800, 2,000 hp radial engine. In [...]
Review: Dora Wings 1/48 Republic P-47B Thunderbolt
Originally designed to meet an Air Corps specification for a high-altitude point-defense interceptor, forced to become a long-range escort fighter for lack of an alternative, then finding its metier as a low-altitude ground attack [...]
Review: First look – Magic Factory F4U-1A / F4U-2 Corsair
Photos to come later. This is first impressions:
Most important: don't believe the voices over at Hyperscale. The kit is not unbuildably wrong - not as much as the usual critics are unreformable.
The rivet pattern in the wings they are all [...]
