Archives: Kit Reviews
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AFV Club M60A2 Starship
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit. Molded in olive green, the kit includes clear plastic for vision blocks, light lenses, optics, and the commander’s cupola, two photo-etched frets, a metal gun barrel, string for the tow cables, and flexible vinyl dust covers for the main gun and commander’s machine gun. The…
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Moebius Michael Myers from Halloween
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/8 scale plastic model figure kit The kit consists of 39 injection-molded plastic parts and one lighting kit for the jack-o’-lantern. The parts are free of flash, and most of the ejection-pin marks are on inner surfaces; the only visible one was on the T-shirt, and it’s easily eliminated. Assembly begins…
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Rye Field Model M1A1/A2 Abrams
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor tank kit Rye Field Model stays on its A game with the first all-plastic Abrams kit with a full interior. The kit includes options to build an M1A1 or A2, as well as such nice little extras as coolers, ammunition boxes, spare road wheels, and clear…
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Kitty Hawk F2H-2 Banshee
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit Kitty Hawk’s detailed F2H-2 includes optional noses to build either a fighter or photo reconnaissance Banshee, plus a terrific cockpit. The soft plastic is delicate; I broke several small parts when removing them from the sprues and cleaning up the mold seams and flash.
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Tiger Model Panhard VBL
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armored car kit Developed in the 1980s, the French Panhard VBL is a small, all-wheel-drive amphibious armored car still in service with the French army today. Tiger Model has just released its second version of the VBL, this one sporting a Milan missile launcher. While the parts…
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Tiger Model Nagmachon
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit To make use of obsolete Centurion tanks, the Israeli Defense Force replaced the turrets with a casemate covered in reactive armor. The result was a unique, well-protected personnel carrier known as the Nagmachon. This kit of the early Nagmachon is Tiger’s second kit of the…
