Review Topic: Armor
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Tamiya SOMUA S35
FineScale Modeler reviews Tamiya’s 1/35 scale plastic model tank kit. Tamiya’s much-anticipated all-new S35 fills a gap in any collection of important World War II armor models. Finally, the old Heller kit can be retired.
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Revell Germany M48A2GA2
FineScale Modeler reviews Revell Germany’s 1/35 scale plastic model tank kit. The M48A2GA2, with its 105mm gun and new mantlet, a new commander’s cupola, and a spotlight and case mounted on the rear turret (among other changes), was the last German upgrade of the M48 before the Leopard II entered service.
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AFV Club M60A1 Patton
FineScale Modeler reviews AFV Club’s 1/35 scale plastic model tank kit. AFV Club’s new-tool M60A1 is welcome and long overdue, as the other available kits date to the 1970s. Cleanly molded in dark olive plastic, this deluxe kit includes a turned-metal gun barrel, detailed driver’s compartment, fording trunk, vinyl mantlet covers, searchlight, and photoetched-metal detail parts.
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Dragon M65 Atomic Annie
FineScale Modeler reviews Dragon’s 1/72 scale plastic model military vehicle kit. On May 25, 1953, at the Nevada Proving Ground, the M65 became the first artillery to fire an atomic shell. Dragon’s new Black Label 1/72 scale tooling of the M65 contains 268 parts molded in light gray plastic with clear styrene windows. Three marking choices…
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Master Box 1/72 scale Mk.I “Male” British tank
Great Britain’s Mk.I Male was among the very first tracked, armored fighting vehicles, entering action in World War I at the Somme in 1916. Master Box’s kit of this historic vehicle is molded in soft plastic with one-piece tracks, movable cannon, and — not labeled on the box — a photoetched-metal fret for the grenade…
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PlusModel U.S. Motor Grader
FineScale Modeler reviews PlusModel’s 1/35 scale resin model construction vehicle kit. Models of military construction equipment have been scarce, but PlusModel has released an all-resin kit of Caterpillar’s No. 12 Motor Grader. During World War II, the U.S. military used the grader in all theaters of operation for building runways, roads, and bases of operations.
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IBG 1/72 scale Diamond T 968 cargo truck
FineScale Modeler reviews the IBG 1/72 scale Diamond T 968 cargo truck plastic scale model kit. To fulfill the U.S. Army’s need for a 4-ton cargo truck, Diamond T produced the 968. The truck’s initial steel bed was soon replaced with wood to conserve precious resources. In 1941, the dashboard was modified to military standard…
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Zvezda 1/35 scale SdKfz 251/1 “Stuka zu Fuss”
FineScale Modeler reviews Zvezda’s 1/35 scale SdKfz 251/1 “Stuka zu Fuss” plastic model halftrack kit. The German army added Wurfrahmen 40 rocket launchers to SdKfz 251 halftracks to provide powerful fire support to fast-moving panzer divisions: 28cm shells contained high-explosive warheads; 32cm projectiles, incendiary. In action, the crew dismounted and remotely fired the rockets from…
