Review Topic: Aircraft
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Trumpeter 1/32 scale A-4E Skyhawk
This model kit includes detail in a lot of places you won’t see without picking it up, including landing-gear bays, speed-brake wells, and avionics compartments.
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HobbyBoss 1/72 scale Kamov Ka-29 “Helix-B”
This model kit is made for modelers of intermediate or better skills — beginners may find the instructions and design do not provide sufficient guidance.
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HobbyBoss 1/72 scale F9F-2 Panther
This model kit is well molded with finely recessed panel detail and not a lot of recessed rivets.
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HobbyBoss 1/48 scale F-14A Tomcat
There’s a lot of detail in this model kit, including good gear bays, a radar dish in the nose, an exposed cannon, and a full array of air-to-air weapons, including big Phoenix missiles.
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Hasegawa 1/72 scale Sukhoi Su-33 “Flanker-D”
This model kit is beautiful, well-engineered, and, despite its size and number of parts, a relatively simple build.
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Fujimi 1/72 scale F-35B Lightning II
The clever alternate doors and engine open up a wide range of display ideas for this model kit, but the lack of some details will have some modelers putting in more time to enhance them.
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Airfix 1/72 Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2
Airfix’s 1/72 scale P-40 Curtiss Warhawk is molded in gray plastic, and features separate castings for raised or lowered landing gear, alternate pitot tubes, opened and closed cowl flaps, a decent interior and pilot figure, and “weighted” tires for the main gear. It does a good job of capturing the complicated shapes of the forward…
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Trumpeter 1/72 scale FC-1 Fierce Dragon/JF-17 Thunder
Molded in light gray plastic, this model kit sports excellent surface scribing, a large number of finely detailed parts, and a photoetched-metal sheet for the exhaust, HUD, and seat harness.
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Airfix 1/48 scale Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII
Easy construction, balanced with smart engineering and a good level of detail, will satisfy most modelers and give superdetailers a good start.
