Review Topic: Aircraft
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Airfix Heinkel He 111P-2
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Airfix’s new He 111 features fine recessed surface engraving, nice interior detail, and includes lots of additional parts for the cockpit, wheel wells, bomb bay, and the gunner’s cradle for the dorsal gun position.
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Airfix Wildcat
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Don’t confuse this Wildcat with Airfix’s ancient mold from the 1960s. This new Wildcat has beautifully executed recessed panel detail, a good cockpit, complex landing-gear structure with separate parts if you want to pose the gear retracted, a well-formed engine and prop, fine decals, and…
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Eduard Fw 190A-8
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. This is one beautiful offering from Eduard! The surface detail on the injection-molded parts rates as some of the nicest I’ve ever seen. A fret of 36 optional pre-colored photo-etched (PE) parts can be used to enhance the model. There’s also a set of 13…
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Meng F-106, AFV Club Husky, Zvezda 777-300ER, Moebius Batmobile, and Eduard’s Ultimate Sabre
FSM reviews five new scale plastic model kits.
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Airfix 1/24 scale Mosquito
With a wingspan of more than 2′, the Mosquito marks Airfix’s welcome return to producing 1/24 scale aircraft. In additon to a detailed cockpit and crew compartment, Airfix provides both Merlin engines complete with plumbing and support structures.
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Airfix Avro Shackleton MR2
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. The kit provides a nice interior, including radar operator and crew stations — there’s even a map for the nav table — and two pilots. Sadly, most of this won’t be seen after the fuselage is assembled. But the cockpit looks appropriately busy when built…
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Airfix Ju 87B-1 Stuka
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/72 scale plastic model aircraft kit. Airfix recently released an early version of the Stuka, and it’s a honey of a kit. If you have built one of Airfix’s newer releases, everything from the box art to the blue-gray molded plastic, recessed detail, and instructions will look familiar.
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Roden 1/48 scale Heinkel He 51 with WIP gallery
FineScale Modeler reviews the Roden 1/48 scale plastic aircraft model kit. Roden’s Heinkel 51 includes markings for two Legion Condor planes, one in overall gray, the other gray and green. The molding is generally good, although some parts required a swipe or two with a sanding stick to square corners and refine mating surfaces.
