Review Topic: Aircraft
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Special Hobby Mirage F.1CE/CH
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Special Hobby captures that look in 1/72 scale nicely. I built the F.1CE/CH; the suffixes designate export versions for Spain and Morocco, respectively. Exquisite surface detail marks the parts, quality that extends to wheel wells, doors and the cockpit. These are the best moldings I’ve…
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Merit International HMS Ark Royal
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/350 scale plastic model aircraft carrier kit. Merit’s kit is finely molded in gray plastic with just a few areas of flash and nice detail throughout, including eyebrow gutters above the portholes. The air wing comprises five Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers, four Fairey Fulmar fighters, and four Blackburn Skua dive-bombers. All…
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Academy F/A-18F Super Hornet
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Surface detail comprises fine, shallow recessed panel lines and fasteners. The largest part incorporates the upper fuselage from just aft of the radome to where the exhaust nozzles are attached and includes the top of the wings. To this you simply press fit the bottom…
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Operation Market-Garden 1944 (2): The British Airborne Missions
By Ken Ford, illustrated by Graham Turner
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Tamiya’s F-14A
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit. With its 1/48 scale F-14A Tomcat, Tamiya reaffirms its place at the pinnacle of the model-kit manufacturing industry. Inspection of the parts reveals clean, precise moldings with crisp, defined panel lines throughout — none too deep, too shallow, too wide, or too narrow. The only…
