Review Topic: Aircraft
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Academy 1/72 scale F-4J Phantom
FineScale Modeler builds the 1/72 scale plastic airplane model kit. A label on Academy’s 1/72 scale Phantom says, “Intuitive build, loads of details without having to glue.” Well, this isn’t your old-fashioned snap kit. It is, however, molded in four colors (gray, white, black, and clear), and all of the parts can be simply pressed…
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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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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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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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Italeri 1/48 scale SH-60B Seahawk
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