Archives: Kit Reviews
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Airfix 1/350 scale Trafalgar-class submarine
It’s an easy build with enough potential for detailing and display to provide plenty of fodder for advanced modelers.
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Airfix 1/72 scale Spitfire Mk.IA
The kit is an excellent value I can recommend wholeheartedly to all modelers.
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Platz 1/144 scale Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
Build two, they’re small! Platz delivers a pair of pint-sized but well-detailed Hellcats in this kit. The models include cockpit, wheel well, and engine detail that rivals some larger-scale Grummans.
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Trumpeter 1/35 scale Panzerlok BR 57 armored locomotive
Trumpeter’s BR 57 is a large and imposing model with good detail where it can be seen and enough track bed to make a good display.
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Tamiya 1/35 scale Soviet BT-7 tank
Tamiya’s kit includes two map-reading figures, photoetched metal for the engine screen, and a chain for the bow.
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Airfix 1/48 scale Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1/3/4
Airfix captured the lines and look of the early Emil in an easy-to-build kit packed with options.
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Pacific Coast Models 1/32 scale Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-0/1/2/3
The kit captures the stance and clean lines of Kurt Tank’s winning design.
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Hasegawa 1/72 scale Junkers Ju 188A/E
An improved version of the Luftwaffe’s ubiquitous Ju 88, the Ju 188 served as bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, and night fighter.
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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.
