Archives: Kit Reviews
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Meng 1/35 scale Leopard 1A5
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic tank model kit. Meng builds on its previous Leopard 1A3/A4 kit using new and updated parts to create this Leopard 1A5. The kit is cleanly molded with sharp features. Features include working tracks, photo-etched-metal and vinyl details, clear parts, and metallic film for mirrors.
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Kitty Hawk 1/32 scale F-86D Dog Sabre
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/32 scale plastic aircraft model kit. Kitty Hawk’s big F-86D Sabre Dog kit looks great just sitting in the box. You get seven sprues of light gray plastic and one in clear, as well as a photoetched-metal fret with seat belts.
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Revell Germany Fw 190F-8
FineScale Modeler reviews Revell Germany’s 1/32 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Cleanly molded in sky-blue plastic, Revell Germany’s all-new 1/32 scale Fw 190 is brimming with features: a complete BMW engine, two styles of drop tanks, bombs in three sizes, two types of canopies (blown and flat) in open and closed positions, posable landing gear options,…
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Trumpeter USS Texas, Hasegawa Ki 61 with Type 95 sedan, Roden Bristol Britannia, and Polar Lights Romulan Bird-of-Prey
FSM reviews four new plastic scale model kits
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MiniArt U.S. Army Bulldozer
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model bulldozer kit. The large box is chock-full of parts. Well molded, they show excellent detail, fine shapes to the point of being delicate, and minimal mold seams. A few parts were broken on the sprues in my kit, but I repaired them easily. The kit includes individual-link…
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Freedom Model Kits F-20A Tigershark
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Developed in the 1970s as an evolution of Northrop’s F-5E, the Tigershark was powered by a single GE F404, the engine used in pairs on the F-18. The improved fighter’s impressive performance featured speeds in excess of Mach 2 and a ceiling over 55,000 feet.
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Zvezda King Tiger
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit. The iconic German King Tiger has been a mainstay of many model company catalogs. Now, Zvezda joins the crowd with a Henschel turret version in 1/35 scale. Molded in dark yellow plastic, the kit includes a sheet of nylon mesh for the engine screens and…
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Roden Bristol 175 Britannia
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/144 scale plastic model aircraft kit Crews affectionately called the Britannia (and its Canadian cousin, the CL-44) “The Whispering Giant.” Roden has done Bristol’s airliner proud. Featuring engraved detail, the kit’s gray parts look good generally, but molding consistency is a stumbling block.
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ModelCollect E-75 heavy tank
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model armor kit. Proposed in 1942 and accepted in 1943, the E series of tanks was Germany’s attempt to standardize armor production. Six different chassis weight classes were proposed and used many standardized parts to simplify manufacturing and maintenance.
