Author: Jim Zeske
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Tamiya Panther Ausf D
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic tank model kit. To my way of thinking, the Panther was a sexy beast! Arguably the best tank of World War II based on firepower, armor, and mobility, it was hindered by poor mechanical reliability and complexity which limited production. Tamiya’s Panther Ausf D is its first all-new…
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Tamiya SOMUA S35
FineScale Modeler reviews Tamiya’s 1/35 scale plastic model tank kit. Tamiya’s much-anticipated all-new S35 fills a gap in any collection of important World War II armor models. Finally, the old Heller kit can be retired.
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AFV Club M60A1 Patton
FineScale Modeler reviews AFV Club’s 1/35 scale plastic model tank kit. AFV Club’s new-tool M60A1 is welcome and long overdue, as the other available kits date to the 1970s. Cleanly molded in dark olive plastic, this deluxe kit includes a turned-metal gun barrel, detailed driver’s compartment, fording trunk, vinyl mantlet covers, searchlight, and photoetched-metal detail parts.
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Zoukei-Mura 1/32 scale Horten 229
FineScale Modeler reviews Zoukei-Mura’s 1/32 scale Horten 229 scale plastic aircraft model. The Horten Ho 229 has to be one of the most futuristic aircraft designs to take to the air during World War II. The Horten brothers’ design was so far ahead of its time that in the early 1980s a team from Northrop-Grumman,…
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Special Hobby 1/32 scale T-33A Shooting Star
FineScale Modeler reviews Special Hobby’s 1/32 scale T-33A Shooting Star. The T-33A was the advanced jet training workhorse for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy in the late 1940s. Based on the F-80 Shooting Star, it was a reliable design that kept it in active duty roles with many air forces into the 1980s.…
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Tamiya 1/35 scale Toyota AB Phaeton
FineScale Modeler reviews Tamiya’s 1/35 scale Toyota AB Phaeton plastic car model kit. Toyota is well known today for its luxury and value cars. But few people know that during World War II the company produced vehicles for the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Zvezda 1/35 scale Panther Ausf D
FineScale Modeler reviews the Zvezda 1/35 scale Panther Ausf D plastic model tank kit. Developed in response to the Soviet T-34, the Panther offered the best combination of firepower, protection, and mobility of any German tank in World War II. Its Achilles heel was its reliability and complexity compared with the T-34 and M4 Sherman.
