Reviews of scale model kits, products and publications.
The postman has been kind enough to leave a small box on my doorstep!
I have been waiting for some time for these to become available, and the other day I got a mail that they had arrived in my kit-pushers store.
I immediately phoned a [...]
When Sydney Camm first designed what became the Typhoon in the late 1930s, not that much was known about high speed flight and heavy weaponry, with the result that the Typhoon’s wing turned out to be too thick. The result was that Camm [...]
While the Luftwaffe was fairly successful in attacking Eighth Air Force bomber formations in the “Twelve O-Clock High” head on tactic, the closing rate was so high that pilots did not have an adequate time to take aim on a specific [...]
Airfix Hawker Hunter F.6
Scale: 1/48
Kit No: A09185
A modern tooling of this British classic that was long overdue. Airfix' mold quality has again improved, surface detail could still be more refined. Three marking options from two [...]
This is from Jennings Heilig, who has been doing a lot of research forthe new Fundekals decal sheet for the Spitfire I coming soon:
There's probably a flurry of Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk.Is being built this week. Having just done a BUNCH of [...]