Review Topic: Armor
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Bronco Panzer III Ausf A
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit. The first four versions of the PzKpfw III — Ausf A-D — were built in small numbers and were basically test vehicles, although some saw combat in Poland and Norway. Ausf A was unique with its coil-spring suspension and large road wheels.
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AFV Club M60A2 Starship
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit. Molded in olive green, the kit includes clear plastic for vision blocks, light lenses, optics, and the commander’s cupola, two photo-etched frets, a metal gun barrel, string for the tow cables, and flexible vinyl dust covers for the main gun and commander’s machine gun. The…
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Rye Field Model M1A1/A2 Abrams
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor tank kit Rye Field Model stays on its A game with the first all-plastic Abrams kit with a full interior. The kit includes options to build an M1A1 or A2, as well as such nice little extras as coolers, ammunition boxes, spare road wheels, and clear…
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Tiger Model Panhard VBL
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armored car kit Developed in the 1980s, the French Panhard VBL is a small, all-wheel-drive amphibious armored car still in service with the French army today. Tiger Model has just released its second version of the VBL, this one sporting a Milan missile launcher. While the parts…
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Tiger Model Nagmachon
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor kit To make use of obsolete Centurion tanks, the Israeli Defense Force replaced the turrets with a casemate covered in reactive armor. The result was a unique, well-protected personnel carrier known as the Nagmachon. This kit of the early Nagmachon is Tiger’s second kit of the…
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Takom’s King Tigers, Aoshima’s OH-1 Ninja, Zvezda’s Kruzenshtern, Italeri’s M113 ACAV, plus Eduard’s Harrier and The Sound of Silence
FSM video review of seven new plastic scale model kits.
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Dragon M60 tank
FineScale Modeler reviews the 1/35 scale plastic model armor tank kit. Dragon’s kit of an early M60 shares parts with Dragon’s M48 and M60A2. The molding has fine details and scale-correct casting texture on the hull and turret. Most of the kit is molded in Dragon’s usual light gray plastic, with the exception being the…
