Author: Walt Fink
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Airfix 1/72 scale P-51D
Airfix’s all-new P-51D Mustang plastic-model kit includes optional parts for raised or lowered flaps and extended or retracted gear. Posable items include the rudder, canopy, and radiator belly-scoop-outlet door. Airfix omitted a few details in the kit’s beautiful scribing — the elevator mass balances and the dzus fasteners along the length of the upper cowling…
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Airfix 1/72 scale A-4B/4P Skyhawk
Skyhawks forever! Airfix’s newly tooled 1/72 scale A-4 plastic model kit features excellent moldings, good surface and wheel-well detail, plus an optional avionics saddle for an Argentine A-4P.
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Cyber-hobby 1/72 Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver
Cyber-hobby’s 1/72 scale Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver plastic model kit features several options for construction and display, including folding wings, posable turtledeck, flight controls, bomb-bay doors, flaps, and dive brakes.
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Revell Germany 1/72 scale Handley Page Halifax B Mk.I/II GR.II
Revell Germany’s 1/72 Halifax Mk.I/II is a huge upgrade from older plastic model kits of this aircraft. The components have beautiful detailing, and the parts breakdown indicates variants to come. The kit decals provide options for two aircraft, and all control surfaces are movable on delicate hinges.
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Hasegawa 1/72 scale Sukhoi Su-33 “Flanker-D”
This model kit is beautiful, well-engineered, and, despite its size and number of parts, a relatively simple build.
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Roden 1/144 scale Douglas DC-7C
This is no weekend project, but there are roses among the thorns: thin trailing edges; nice main-wheel brake detail; and, most importantly, the model kit’s shape and dimensions are right on.
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Cyber-hobby 1/72 scale Gloster Meteor F.3
Cyber-hobby’s Meteor went together well and showed ample evidence of modelers’ influence in its development, with many features our hobby fraternity likes.
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Valom 1/72 scale Bristol Brigand B.Mk.1
The Brigand replaced the Beaufighter as the Royal Air Force’s ground attack aircraft. The type served during the Malayan Emergency before being replaced by the Canberra.
