Archives: Kit Reviews
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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…
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Airfix P-40B Warhawk
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit Numerous manufacturers have recently released kits of the Warhawk, with Airfix’s P-40B being the latest. Inside the sturdy box are three sprues molded in medium gray plastic, and a fourth sprue holding crystal-clear parts. Panel lines and details are deep and well defined, and the…
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Wingsy Kits Mitsubishi A5M2b “Claude”
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit
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Takom’s King Tigers, Aoshima’s OH-1 Ninja, Zvezda’s Kruzenshtern, Italeri’s M113 ACAV, plus Eduard’s Harrier and The Sound of Silence
FSM video review of seven new plastic scale model kits.
