Review Topic: Aircraft
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Eduard’s revised Bf 109G-6
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit. The number one thing I can say about Eduard’s new Bf 109G-6 is “it was worth the wait.” In 2014, the company’s 1/48 scale Gustav created a lot of buzz in the modeling community. Unfortunately, the detailed ProfiPack kit, with photo-etched (PE) details and colorful…
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Revell Germany BAe Hawk T1
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Revell Germany’s Hawk trainer offers markings for the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team, in the current eye-catching red-and-white scheme. Molded in slightly soft red plastic, the parts feature excellent recessed surface detail. Several smaller pieces have flash and seam lines on them.…
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Meng Convair F-106A Delta Dart
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. It’s only natural that modelers want better, more-accurate kits with more detail. Meng’s new kit of the U.S. Air Force’s ultimate interceptor, the F-106A, is certainly better, more accurate, and more detailed than the 45-year-old Hasegawa kit. And if it isn’t detailed enough for you,…
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Tarangus Saab J32B/E Lansen
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. As Sweden’s first multirole fighter, the Saab J32 Lansen was a ground-attack platform, all-weather fighter, reconnaissance bird, electronic countermeasures aircraft, and air sampler, from the 1950s until at least as recently as 2010.
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Italeri ATR 42-500
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/144 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Airliner modelers greeted the prospect of a mainstream ATR 42 with enthusiasm when Italeri announced it several years ago. Features include: a cockpit (unusual in 1/144 scale); open cabin windows to be filled with clear inserts; optional parts to display the gear up or down;…
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Valom F-101C Voodoo
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Valom’s new F-101C is the first 1/72 scale kit of the single-seat fighter-bomber version of McDonnell’s big jet. Before now, the Voodoo that you’d do would have been the ancient Hasegawa RF-101C recon aircraft or the newer Revell two-seat F-101B interceptor. The all-new kit captures…
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Zvezda’s Petlyakov Pe-2
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/48 scale plastic model aircraft kit. The moment I opened the box, I fell in love with Zvezda’s 1/48 scale Pe-2. It was also obvious it was going to be a project, not because Zvezda’s kit is bad but because it has 435 parts. The major parts show amazing surface detail,…
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Trumpeter Su-24MR “Fencer-E”
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Trumpeter’s “Fencer-E” features an astounding amount of plastic: 370 parts on 28 sprues. Everything is packed separately in a partitioned box, with the clear sprue in its own padded polybag. The parts have outstanding recessed detail except, curiously, the external fuel tanks, which show raised…
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Merit International Fokker Dr.1 with WIP images
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/24 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Famous as Snoopy’s nemesis, the Fokker triplane gets much more press than its importance should warrant. Designed in response to Sopwith’s three-winged fighter, the Dr.1 was not produced in large numbers. But it’s notorious as the mount of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
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Kitty Hawk OV-10A/C Bronco
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/32 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Odd looking but capable, the North American OV-10 has been used by the U.S. military as a counter-insurgency and forward air control aircraft. Kitty Hawk is the first company to produce the Bronco in 1/32 scale.