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 Newsline
The editor and staff at MAI wish everyone
A peaceful and prosperous
New Year
Revell first-quarter
announcements
Revell have announced their first-quarter release
schedule for 2015, so here is a concise list of the
new and reissued aircraft kits as well as additions
to their range of tools and finishing products
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LSA Closure
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“After 35 years working within the retail and
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Models has always been a family-run business
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time to them.
I have thoroughly enjoyed running LSA Models
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show stands, we will be having a big sale of
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be available for visitors to the shop and to
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which are given in our advertisements in the
modelling press and on our web site. There
will be a minimum of 30% off all plastic kits and
accessories with some ranges up to 50% off.
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It won’t be a complete departure, as once
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not having the constant pressure of running
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rather than being engaged on the stand selling.
Thanking all my customers past and present
for their custom over the years.”
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 Valiant Wings - New & Future
Valiant Wings Publishing concluded 2014 with the release of their latest titles in the Airframe Album
(Bristol Blenheim) and new Airframe Detail (BV 141) series at the IPMS/UK Scale ModelWorld event
in early November. But they are not sitting back and relaxing, oh no, they are already planning the
next title in the Airframe Album series, which will be the Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu to be perfectly timed
for the newly announced 1:32 resin kit from HpH, as well as for those of you with the excellent Great
Wall Hobby example in 1:48. This will be followed by the second title in the new Airframe Detail series,
covering the Dornier Do 17Z and thus ideally suited for those with the new Airfix 1:72 kit to build. There
are others planned for 2015, but VWP are keeping quiet about these for now! For more details visit
their website www.valiant-wings.co.uk or follow them on Facebook (valiantwingspublishing).

roles. The title is not extensively illustrated, it is a

European Air Power
This is a new 296-page hardback title from
Potomac Books which is a detailed study of the
current state of eight European air forces and
their potential air power. The coverage is split
into France, Germany, Turkey and England as
the ‘European’ nations, with Norway, Denmark,
Sweden and Finland as ‘Nordic’ powers, mainly
to deal with their differing operational theatres and
written study of the current state of air power in
these nations, but it makes a useful guide to what
is where in these regions and therefore may have a
place on the bookshelf of those of you interested in
modern military aviation.
The title is available in the UK through Casemate
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1-612346-81-6) in a local or online bookshop, then
contact them directly at
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Peregrine’s
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US publishers Peregrine
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the Grumman F4F-3 and
FM-2 Wildcat (Walk Around
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etc. and are thus ideal for
modellers.
The CD retails for $10 plus
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 KWIK BUILD
SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

SPECIFICATION:
Hasegawa 1:72 Bell MV-22B Osprey
Kit No: E41 Built & Written by Patrick Branly from France

LEATHERNECK
Materials: IM
Availability: Ripmax Ltd (UK Importer) and Hasegawa
stockists worldwide

OSPREY
Price Guide £39.99

BEFORE STARTING:
● Cyanoacrylate
● Gunze-Sangyo extra thin cement
● Tamiya masking tape
● Side cutters
● Tweezers
● Sandpaper and files
● Daco Products decal setting solutions
● Humbrol Maskol

DIMENSIONS: 1:1
Span (inc. Rotor Dia.) - 84ft 7in (25.8m) The V-22 Osprey has taken a long time to come into service, but it has always
Length - 57ft 14in (17.5m)
Height (engines vertical) - 22ft 1in (6.73m)
attracted the attention of the kit manufacturers. Hasegawa came on the scene with
their all-new kit in late 2013, but what’s it like?
DIMENSIONS: 1:72

C
Span (inc. Rotor Dia.) - 385mm
Length - 243mm onstruction started as usual in the main fuselage area, so you can
Height (engines vertical) - 93.5mm
with the cockpit, which is only have the door closed unless you are
AIRBRUSH USED: simple but detailed enough prepared to undertake a huge amount of
Tamiya Spray-Work HG for the scale and for what will scratchbuilding. I added seat harnesses
UK importer The Hobby Company Ltd be visible through the canopy. and painted the instrument panel in black
The instruction sheet tells us to use Interior with details picked out in light grey, yellow
PAINTS USED: Grey for the cockpit but many images I and red. As I was not sure about the centre
Alclad II lacquer:
ALC102 Duraluminium found on the Internet show a very dark grey of gravity of my kit I added some weight in
ALC120 Gunmetal colour. With this in mind I used Xtracolor the nose. Before assembling the fuselage
ALC600 Aqua Gloss varnish
RLM 66 as the basis and Interior Grey halves together, however, I glued the tiny
GSI Creos (Gunze-Sangyo) Mr Aqueous Hobby Color for the space behind the cockpit. When I transparencies in place, but found these to
acrylic:
H2 Black say ‘space’, it’s just that, there is nothing be a little under size. Later I protected them
H11 Flat White
H307 Grey FS 36320
H308 Grey FS 36375
H337 Blue-Grey FS 35237

Humbrol enamel:
11 Silver
53 Gunmetal
56 Aluminium

Tamiya Color acrylic:

X-19 Smoke
X-25 Clear Green
X-27 Clear Red

Xtracolor enamel:
X203 RLM 66 Black-grey
X403 Interior Grey FS 36231

REFERENCE
● Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey (Midland Publishing 2004)

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with some pieces punched out of Tamiya
masking tape.
Next I built the wing, which is well detailed
and engineered. To avoid any dihedral trouble
the upper part of this wing is in one piece.
Once assembled it was put aside as I did not
want to glue it in place, to ease transportation
to future model shows. The engine nacelles
are more complex with many pieces and
required some sanding to get everything lined
up satisfactory around the main joints. You
do not actually have to glue the completed
nacelles in place, because there is a poly cap
at the joint to adjust the position of the nacelles
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at the end of the wings; this is also the case masked this area with Tamiya tape and painted
with the propellers. The propellers are made it ALC102 Duraluminium. Finally I secured the
up of two parts and I used some cyanoacrylate canopy after protecting the transparencies with
to get a perfect joint at the middle of the masking tape.
blades. The blades were then painted black, I started the painting process with the wheel
for which I used Alclad ALC120 Gunmetal wells in GSI Creos H308 Grey FS 36375. I
because it is nearly black and very quick to used the same colour for the undercarriage
dry. As a part of the leading edge is metallic I legs and I added some hydraulic hoses along
“The instruction sheet tells us to
use Interior Grey for the cockpit but
many images I found on the Internet
show a very dark grey colour”
08/12/2014 11:23
 the main legs, then these were painted black.
After a dark enamel wash I airbrushed a
fine layer of matt varnish on this part of the
fuselage. Now I must say a word about the
scheme I chose. Inside the box there are
two options, which are very colourful but as
everybody is producing the same scheme I
selected one of the options on the Wolfpack
sheet No.72-057 ‘Shadows of the Knight’. The
aircraft in question is MV-22B, BuNo.166747
of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron
HMM-365 in 2011. This one, ‘YM-00’, has
the markings in some shade of blue but the
camouflage is made up of three different
shades of grey: FS 35237, 36320 & 36375. On
the sheet you get the main decals only, so I
relied on the Hasegawa decal sheet for all the
rest, including the stencils. I painted the whole
aircraft with the upper three greys after some
pre-shading work with ALC120, which proved
to be a disappointment because you can see
no real difference between the greys. When
the paint was dry I airbrushed several very
thin layers of ALC600 gloss varnish to help
with decal application. I had some troubles
with the Wolfpack decals, as I suppose they
were not designed for this kit because the
rudder checkers are not the right dimensions
and this was also the case with those around
the fuselage windows. The walkway areas
came from the Hasegawa sheet and these
are very thin, so that when I used Daco decal
setting solution on them I spoiled a few of
them. I sealed everything with another layer
of gloss varnish and flowed in a dark enamel
wash to add some sort of weathering on
this operational aircraft. As a last measure I
airbrushed on a couple of thin layer of
matt varnish.
The final task, once the masking tape was
removed from the transparencies, was to add
the antennae and the wipers. ●

FINAL VERDICT
Hasegawa give us another easy kit to build but here in Europe the price of this brand is a little on the high side. Nevertheless it is worth the effort
as it is the best V-22 in this scale and you will wait a long time before getting one with the same quality. That said, I wish Hasegawa had given us a
nice interior, so we could open up the huge cargo door.

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 "The decals for the RIO were particularly
KWIK BUILD
SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER
problematic, as they required careful
trimming to enable them to conform.
Luckily a friend forewarned me
about this because there is nothing
in the instructions to
SPECIFICATION:
HobbyBoss 1:72 Grumman F-14D Tomcat this effect"
Kit No: 80278
Materials: IM
Availability: Creative Models Ltd (UK Importer) and
HobbyBoss stockists worldwide
Price Guide £16.99

BEFORE STARTING:
● Cyanoacrylate (Medium)
● Humbrol Liquid Poly
● Humbrol Maskol
● Microscale Kristal Klear
● Tamiya Masking tape
● Tweezers
● Flory sanding sticks
● Micro-mesh System
● X-Acto scalpel
● Squadron Green Putty
● Microscale Set & Sol decal solutions
● Microscale Micro Flat
● Johnson’s Klear

DIMENSIONS: 1:1
Span - 64ft 1 1/2in (19.55m) [Extended] (F-14A, B & D),
32ft 2 1/2in (11.65m) [Folded]
Length - 62ft 8in (19.10m)
Height - 16ft 0in (4.88m)

DIMENSIONS: 1:48
Span - 271.5mm [Extended], 161.8mm [Folded]
Length - 265.3mm
Height – 67.8mm

AIRBRUSH USED:
Iwata HB-B Plus
Iwata Revolution CR
UK importer The Airbrush Company visit
www.airbrushes.com

PAINTS USED:
Alclad II lacquer:
ALC-101 Aluminium
ALC-106 White Aluminium
ALC-111 Magnesium
ALC-113 Jet Exhaust

GSI Creos (Gunze-Sangyo) Mr Aqueous Color acrylic:

H12 Flat Black
H14 Orange
H57 Aircraft Grey
H81 Khaki
H85 Sail Colour
H90 Clear Red
H94 Clear Green
H305 Grey
H308 Grey
H316 White
H327 Red
H335 Medium Sea Grey
H337 Greyish Blue
H343 Soot

Tamiya acrylic:

Built & Written by Bob Edwards from the UK

X-19 Smoke

BOSS CAT
XF-2 White
XF-64 Red-Brown

REFERENCE
● Uncovering the Grumman F-14A/B/D Tomcat by D.
Coremans (Daco Publications 2005
ISBN: 90-806747-6-1)

The F-14D is the final incarnation of the famous F-14 Tomcat. First delivered in
1991, the type incorporated numerous improvements, most notably the GE F110-
400 engines, glass cockpit, radar and key systems upgrades such as Infra-red
tracking, autonomous electronic countermeasures and a new NACES ejection
seat. The end product resulted in one of the finest modern-day platforms ever
developed. With such a blend of power and capability, it is little wonder why the
type is so revered by the crews that flew it.

I
have been increasingly impressed with
offerings from HobbyBoss, and their
F-14D is a good example of why. The kit
itself consists of various grey-coloured
styrene sprues along with a single clear
one. Panel line and rivet detail is perfectly
adequate for the scale and throughout the
course of the build correlated very well
with my reference material. The mouldings
themselves are to a very good standard

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with no flash or warping observed on my
sample. Clear parts were also of a good
quality although the HUD glass is simply too
thick (a common problem in this scale). The
instructions are pretty straightforward albeit
with a few errors in the painting instructions,
so watch out for those. The painting
instructions themselves are provided on
a separate sheet in full colour for each of
the three available options. These are fine
for the aircraft itself but I advise you to
use additional references for the ordnance
options. The decals are good, however I
did not like those for the cockpit displays
and controls, as they appeared too garish
and artificial. I have always wondered why
manufacturers do not provide decals for
aircraft without ‘power on’, as this is often
how models are posed. The decals for the
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RIO were particularly problematic, as they
required careful trimming to enable them
to conform. Luckily a friend forewarned me
about this because there is nothing in the
instructions to this effect.
I always start with a dry fit of the major
parts and it was pretty uneventful other than
identifying a possible issue with the wing
sweep mechanism. This can lock up, so
removing some of the ‘cogs’ is a good idea –
not to improve the mechanism, it just gives you
some wiggle room in the event that you do get
asymmetric wings after the fuselage has
been sealed.
The rest of the kit went together very
nicely with minimal filler required; mostly
on the intake/fuselage join. This is however
another kit that requires the installation of
the main landing gear early on in the build.
Many modellers prefer to build up sub-
assemblies such as stores and undercarriage
to simplify painting but to do that with this
kit requires minor surgery on the oleo-to-
airframe attachment point in order to allow
it to fit. Posing the canopy open requires a
simple scratchbuilt modification to replicate
the canopy actuator, however I was
disappointed that there was no
option to do this in the
first place.
People very often
underestimate
the work
involved in
simple paint
schemes,
especially
when operation
in a saline marine
environment is concerned.
The F-14 requires work. The paint
scheme progressed with a topside coat
of GSI Creos (Gunze Sangyo) Greyish
Blue (H337) and underside coat of Grey
(H308). Where necessary, panels were taped
off and coated in various shades of grey. Once
dry the topside was misted with water spray
via my airbrush and then sprinkled with salt.
Once dry, it was then sprayed with a lighter
shade of grey than the original base coat.
The model can then be rinsed with warm
water revealing a speckled effect typical of
that seen on aircraft operating in a marine
environment. The whole assembly then needs
to be finished with fine Micro-mesh (grades
3000 to 3600). The process can be repeated
08/12/2014 11:24
 "This is however another kit that requires the installation of the main landing gear early
on in the build. Many modellers prefer to build up sub-assemblies such as stores and
undercarriage to simplify painting, but to do that with this kit requires minor surgery on the
oleo-to-airframe attachment point in order to allow it to fit"
with as many different shades as you like The panel lines were finished with several
and I used four different shades on my build. applications of Flory Models Black, while key
The only rule is that you need to start with the areas such as the flap joins were sprayed with
darker shades first. The wing inflation bladders Tamiya Smoke (X-19) then blended with a
were primed with an undercoat of GSI Creos filter of diluted various grey hues (depending
Sail Colour (H85) and top coated with a coat on whether the filter was applied topside
of GSI Creos Soot (H343). Once dry a piece or underneath) before a final finish applied
of fine wet and dry paper was placed under with Micro-mesh. There was not much more
the wing join and the wings rotated from weathering to do apart from general touch-ups,
forward to swept several times to achieve the as this had been done as part of the painting
required wear pattern. The tailerons, fins and process. The only real disappointment here
exhaust nozzles were finished separately in was the ordnance because the recommended
various Alclad II shades and attached to the stores configurations bear little resemblance
model when complete. In my opinion the rear to in-service loads. Also, always go with your
fuselage exhaust area appeared to be more references, as the all-white missiles suggested
reminiscent of an F-14A/B with the original in the painting instructions should actually be
problematic P&W TF50 engines, and the grey and white for my example. Finally (and
nozzles themselves also failed to adequately this is a general complaint), why can’t we get
represent the GE F110 engine petals. There proper options for live/training/inert ordnance
are however a number of aftermarket options bands? Black bands mean nothing so to
available if you want this accuracy on achieve something realistic you need to paint
your model. your own bands. ●

FINAL VERDICT
There are some shortfalls with this kit but the fact is that you get a very nice representation of an F-14D for your money, which can be built by all
from the novice to the more experienced. HobbyBoss has done a good job here although some corners appear to have been cut. It is a good
honest kit that marries up well and that alone will appeal to most modellers. The aftermarket options can cater for the majority of shortfalls if better
accuracy is a must.

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SPECIFICATION:
Roden 1:144 Lockheed C-140A JetStar
Kit No.: 316
Materials: IM
Availability: Pocketbond Ltd (UK Importer) and Roden
stockists worldwide
Price Guide: £16.99

BEFORE STARTING:
● Humbrol Liquid Poly
● Thick Cyanoacrylate & Accelerator
● Tamiya masking tape
● Tweezers
● Sanding sticks & files
● X-Acto Modelling knife and #11 blades
● Fiskars straight edged scissors

DIMENSIONS: 1:1
Span - 54ft 5in (16.59m)
Length - 60ft 5in (18.41m)
Height - 20ft 5in (6.22m)

DIMENSIONS: 1:144
Span - 115mm
Length - 128mm
Height - 43mm

AIRBRUSHES USED:
Iwata Hi-Line HP-BH and HP-CH
Available in the UK from The Airbrush Company,
visit www.airbrushes.com

PAINTS USED:
Halfords acrylic (aerosol):
Grey Plastic Primer

GSI Creos (Gunze-Sangyo) Mr Hobby Aqueous acrylic:

H305 FS36118 Light Gunship Grey

White Ensign Colourcoats enamel:

WEMCC ACUS19 Olive Drab
WEMCC ACUS20 Dark Green

Daler Rowney oil paint:

304 Ivory Black

REFERENCES
● Internet

Built & Written by Steve A. Evans from the UK

VIP STATUS
The JetStar may not be the most famous aircraft out there but it served its country
well and for a surprisingly long time. First flown in 1957 with some examples still
in use today, so that’s not a bad service record.

I
t’s always good to get some oddities in
the modelling world, as we seem to get
enough of all the usual stuff, and Roden
is one of the manufacturers who delight
in bringing us the slightly strange.
There is no doubt the JetStar is odd but it’s
also pretty neat looking, with its compact
shape and four engines grouped around the
tail. In this scale it’s not just compact but
positively tiny and the kit itself is only 50
parts, which gives it the feel of one of those
free toys you used to get in your packet of
cereal. The plastic is well formed, although
lacking in any real detail, the shapes are
nice and there is very little flash on show.
The engraved panel lines on the exterior
surfaces are good and although internally
it’s completely blank, that’s not really going
to matter, as the windows are tiny. It comes
in a small, end-opening box with good art
on both front and back, and the instruction
sheet is clearly drawn and easy to follow.
The paint references are to Vallejo paints,
which is a little odd, and you get just a
single decal option on the ridiculously tiny
sheet, but the full colour painting guide on
the box is excellent.
Construction takes place over 13 stages in
the instructions and with there being no interior,
other than the nose gear bay, the build is very

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 quick. In fact, this is the perfect rainy
Sunday afternoon model as within about
two hours of work I had the machine
pretty much built. There are only a few
parts to take any real care over, with the
engine nacelles being the worst as they
are difficult to get the intake sections to
line up with the rest. The main wing joint
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to the fuselage also needs some careful
fettling to get it to close up, but apart
from that it’s all plain sailing.
With such a small parts count and
such an easy build the real difficulty
comes in getting that paint job done
properly. The three-tone ‘Lizard’
camouflage is going to be a pain in this
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scale because it’s soft edged. There
is no way I was going to attempt to do
any Blu Tack worms for this because it’s
just too small and they’d be impossible
to position correctly. In the end I opted
for a freehand application and hoped
for the best. The colours are identified
only with description and Vallejo codes,
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so to make life easier here are the FS codes:
FS36118 Light Gunship Grey, FS34102
Olive Green and FS364092 Dark Green. The
Gunship Grey is applied first and I wish I could
have left it there because it looked great in that
overall finish. Then the other two colours were
carefully applied. I tried to stay as close to the
camouflage scheme as possible, but in this
scale I found it a bit difficult; 1:144 is definitely
not my scale. Once the main colours were on
it was time for the other bits,
such as the black de-icer
panels along the leading
edges of all the flying
surfaces, the silver
band around the
forward portion of
the lower fin and
the white interiors of the undercarriage bays.
The windows also got a very thin application
of Light Tan around their edges to simulate the
sealant. All of this was then coated in Klear in
preparation for the decals.
As mentioned, the decals are tiny, there are
very few of them and they are utterly rubbish.
A couple of them broke up in the water and
the rest absolutely, positively refused to settle
down even under the provocation of Daco
Strong Softening Solution. In the end I only
managed to use about half of the decals on the
sheet, the rest of the markings I painted myself
just because it was so much easier than
fighting with the kit decals any more.
Weathering consisted of a minimal
application of pastels around the engines and
underside, then a few light passes of Tamiya
Smoke along the panel lines. These
aircraft were kept in immaculate condition,
befitting their VIP transport duties, so there’s
not a lot of leeway for making them dirty.
All that was therefore left were the tiny aerial
blades and getting the wheels and doors fitted
into place, thankfully without incident. The final
surface finish was a coat of Alclad II Klear Kote
Flat varnish, and with the masking removed
from the transparencies it was done. ●
“With such a small parts
count and such an easy build
the real difficulty comes in
getting that paint job done
properly”

FINAL VERDICT
A really interesting subject done in some style by Roden. It’s easy to build, so you can get a good looking machine from the limited parts in the box,
and while the small scale precludes any real detailing it still manages to look quite neat. That paint job might be a problem for some and the decals
are rubbish, but all in all it’s not a bad kit for your money.

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SPECIFICATION:
Portugues
Mano
HobbyBoss 1:32 F-84G Thunderjet
Kit No.: 83208
Materials: IM, PE
Availability: Creative Models Ltd (UK Importer) and
HobbyBoss stockists worldwide
Price Guide: £45.99

BEFORE STARTING:
● Thick Cyanoacrylate & Accelerator
● Gunze-Sangyo Mr Cement S
● Tamiya Masking Tape
● Gunze-Sangyo Mr Putty
● Tweezers
● Sanding sticks & files
● Swann-Morton #3 scalpel and blades
● Johnson’s Future

PAINTS USED:
Tamiya acrylic:
Built & Written by Daniel Zamarbide Suárez from the Canary Islands
XF-4 Yellow-Green
XF-56 Metallic Grey
XF-58 Olive Green (Field Green)

Tamiya enamel:
X-11 Chrome Silver
The Republic F-84 Thunderjet along with the F-86
XF-16 Flat Aluminium Sabre was one of the most important fighters of
AIRBRUSHES USED: the USAF during the 1950s, both receiving their
Harder & Steenbeck Evolution baptism of fire during the Korean
Harder & Steenbeck Infinity Two-in-One
Both available in the UK from Little-cars, visit War where the F-84 played
www.little-cars.com
a key part in the ground-
DIMENSIONS: 1:1 attack role. After the war
Span - 36ft 5in (11.10m)
Length - 38ft 1in (12.61m)
and with many surplus
Height - 12ft 7in (3.84m) airframes, a lot of F-84s
DIMENSIONS: 1:32 were transferred to other
Span - 346.9mm air forces around the world,
Length –394mm
Height - 120mm including many European nations
and specifically for this article, the Portuguese Air
REFERENCE
● Republic F-84 Thunderjet, Thunderstreak & Force. During the type’s service with the Portuguese
Thunderflash: A Photo Chronicle by D. R. McLaren
(Schiffer 1998 ISBN: 0-7643-0444-5) Air Force, the aircraft saw combat in several of
the Portuguese African colonies such as Angola
before being decommissioned in the early 1970s, a
testament to the versatility of the type.

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uese
ofWar
T
he model chosen for this
article is the fabulous 1:32
example from HobbyBoss
of China, which is of great
quality. Just by opening
the box and looking at all the
pieces you can see the quality, with
everything perfectly moulded and
surface detail supplied via engraved
lines and rivets. As usual, I started
the model with the cockpit area and
for this I highly recommend using
Eduard photo-etched to improve and
fix what I believe are the only errors
in the model. The cockpit interior
has excellent detail, including two
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types of ejection seats specific
to the type, but the HUD area is
completely wrong. HobbyBoss have
just moulded the gap between the
dashboard and the windshield as
a basically blank area, while in the
real aircraft there is a lot there, so
the Eduard photo-etched set gives
you all the parts necessary to fix
this. It requires a lot of work and
you will need adequate and clear
information about the area. Once
this problem is sorted, though, you
can continue with the rest of the
model in the normal manner. The
F-84 has a very large, clear canopy,
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so the interior was painted green
using Tamiya XF-58 and, like most
of my models, I included a pilot
figure. For this I made use of one of
the pilots in PJ Production's range,
specifically the European fighter
pilot of the 1960s, which exhibits
very good workmanship. Personally
I like to customise figures a bit, so I
changed the head for one from the
Hornet range, which usually has
more realistic expressions. Once
this revised figure was attached to
the seat, harnesses were made and
added and then it was time for the
painting process. For all these small
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Stage-by-Stage - Construction,
Paint & Weathering
One of the first tasks was to cut off the moulded
fins on the bombs, as these were too thick
details I had the invaluable help of my good
friend Pedro Barbosa, president of IPMS
Portugal, who advised me on all these little
details. As I said, the whole cockpit interior
is painted olive green (Tamiya XF-58), while
all the small details were picked out in Vallejo
acrylic paints, applied with a brush. One of
the essential components of the cockpit is
the instrument panel, which in the kit is very
The basics of the kit, with the original PJ
Production figure test-fitted into the cockpit
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New fins were cut from plasticard using the The completed bombs, although the arming The little bleed-air vents are moulded with the
originals removed from the bombs as templates vanes would later be replaced with the kit fuses fuselage halves, so it is relatively simple to cut
them out, then back them with new doors made
from plasticard
basic, so it needs improvement and this
is where the previously mentioned Eduard
photo-etched set makes it look a lot better.
Once the pilot, seat, cockpit interior and
other details were painted, I went to work on
the weapons bay in the nose, with its four
cannon. The kit offers the potential to leave
the top cowling off the bay, so that once
built you can still see this part of the interior.
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 The head of the new PJ Production’s pilot is OK, …, carefully using drills and a motor tool, the …and a replacement head from the Hornet …a moustache was then added from putty and
but could be better… head inside the helmet was removed… Models range installed instead… chin straps from lead foil

Next was the inlet for the engine, which also The completed head was temporarily
includes a white-metal weight to prevent the attached to the body, which was then
plane from sitting on its tail once built, and added to the seat so that straps etc.
could be made
this is a very useful addition by Hobbyboss. I
did add a pitot tube to the intake, made from
different sizes of hypodermic tubing. The
final stage of the interior was the small bay
under the fuselage for the airbrake, which is
exposed or covered depending on whether
the airbrake is shown open or closed. When
I closed up both halves of the fuselage, they
fitted perfectly and were secured with the
front nose ring and the rear exhaust outlet,
both of which are a good fit with no need
for filler.
Next came the wings, and as usual with
HobbyBoss the kit comes with the option of
positioning all the control surfaces, including
the tail and elevators, all of which adds to the
realism of the model. The undercarriage wheel
wells have good detail but as with most things,
they can be improved using lengths of wire that
help give more realism to the area. All of the
undercarriage components and bays feature
the characteristic yellow-green colour of the
era and for this I used Tamiya XF-4. Special
mention should be made of the landing gear

The instrument panel has raised detail but it …so it is all removed… …there is nothing much on the back
is all a bit suspect… either…

… lengths of suitable diameter round stock …a punched disc of plasticard is added to …so that lengths of soldering wire can be
are added to the back to represent the body each, then drilled… added…
of each instrument…

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…once the soldering wire is secured, it is

bunched up into realistic groups…

The rear face is carefully painted, with

The Eduard pre-painted instrument panel is a colour used to create the illusion of
vast improvement over the kit detail depth etc.

because HobbyBoss give the option of both
plastic and metal, so I went with plastic for
the nose oleo and metal for the main, simply
because the plastic front oleo had more detail
than the metal version. Each landing gear leg
had pipework added to improve the moulded
brake lines, and for this I used soldering wire
of different thicknesses; this medium allows
you to curve the pipes to the correct shapes
down each landing gear. The grey metal colour
used here was Tamiya XF-56, which was then
drybrushed with silver from the Tamiya enamel
range (X-11), while the black brake cables and
wheels are given the same treatment using
black and dark grey. Whilst talking about the
wheels, I should mention that like the cockpit
interior, this is an area in the kit that needs
improving. The wheels supplied use vinyl tyres

…
gr

…
mediu
fo

The instrument panel is placed on the pedestal from the

Eduard set and the wires grouped and placed inside; the pilot
is also temporarily installed to check alignment

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 The upper rear decking inside the sliding section of the canopy Nose weight is needed so Uschi van der Rosen flexible nose The updated interior
also lacks detail, so this is added with soldering wire and details weight was pushed into the intake splitter fairing
from the Eduard etched set

The pilot figure has …the first overall …RAF Middlestone is then
…now RLM 83, a light
the head removed, as colour is the used to create contrast for
green, is used to pick out
that will be painted grey used on the paint chips…
highlights on the seat…
separately… ejection seat, as it
will form the base
for all subsequent
colours…

WWII Beige is now

used to pick out the
…a combination of pipework…
Engine Grey (base)
and black (RLM 22)
is used to create the A base coat of green-
headrest grey is used for the
pilot’s suit…

…then a dark green

(FS34079) is used to add
…then Tamiya matt shadows in the folds…
aluminium (XF-16) from
their enamel range is
used to pick out the
attachment points…

…followed by medium …then a yellow

grey (FS36306) for the …a touch of white for (RLM 27) for the life …black for the
highlights… the shoulder badge and preserver… boots, gloves,
maps, which are later control column top
outlined in black… and oxygen mask
and tube…

…and some more

medium grey (FS36306)
for the seat belts…

…then a coat of
matt varnish to level
everything

…chrome silver
(X-11) from the
Tamiya enamel
range to pick out
the buckles etc…

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The pilot’s head is first painted
white…
…details for the art on the
helmet are first drawn with
a fine pencil, then made
permanent with a graphic pen
(0.2mm)…
…this is also used to fill in the …Olive Drab is used to create …the excellent ‘Flesh and Skin …the completed head
ace of spades emblem… the sun shield… Colors’ from AK Interactive is
used to paint the pilot’s face…

on plastic hubs and over time the vinyl will
crack and break, so I turned to Fisher Models
to obtain a set of their high quality replacement
resin wheels.
The wings were attached without problems
but the fuel tanks at the tip do require some
additional work because once you have glued
them in place and sanded the joint smooth
you will have eradicated some of the panel
lines, which therefore have to be rescribed.
Once the wings and fuselage are joined, with
no real fit problems, I installed the elevators
and then checked the entire model for any
damage or deleted detail that had occurred
during the sanding of the main joints. With the

…yellow ochre dots are then applied

The pilot and seat and gloss in a random pattern, before everything
varnished, then once dry a is merged with a brush moistened with
black oil wash is applied… Humbrol enamel thinners

Once the pilot’s head is attached, the

whole unit is sprayed with matt varnish
to level everything

“With regard to the decals, these did not come in the kit, they were a gift from my good friends and
they came from the Colorado Decal range”

Metallic grey is used to pick out the various …dividing yellow lines were applied between …a lighter shade of green (FS34259) is used to …the lighter green is then used to create
panels on each side console, as well as each panel, along with some detail ‘text’ in highlight some areas, whilst yellow and red is chipping in various areas…
elements of the main instrument panel… white, are all applied with a steady hand and used to add more stencilling and various grey
fine brush… shades to pick out all the knobs and controls…

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 …the whole unit is gloss
varnished, then once ...the finished
dry a yellow oil paint is effect
dotted on…

…this is then blended into the overall

scheme with a flat brush moistened
with enamel thinners…

model assembled all that remained was

The completed
to mask anything that was not going to be cockpit once
painted the exterior colours using some everything is levelled
homemade masks and Humbrol Maskol with a final coat of
and the Eduard Express Masks, which is matt varnish
indispensable in marking out accurately
the large number of small panels that
make up the canopy of the Thunderjet.

Paint, Decals & Final Details

With the model ready for paint, after a bit
of investigation I found that most wrongly
assume these machines were finished in
bare metal, but in reality they were painted
The various sub-
with aluminium to protect them from the assembles of the
cockpit tub

Views of the painted, weathered

and assembled cockpit tub

Even in 1:32 you are not talking about a

huge area for the cockpit, so it packs in
a lot of detail and paint effects

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The nose gun bay basic colours of yellow zinc chromate printer …a dark grey is used to create paint chips, whilst RAL 8027 …a soft 2B pencil is used to create more paint chips, this time
and black… Leather Brown is used on the gun barrel support cradles… on the base primer areas…

…various details and highlights are added, then the unit is gloss …a few dots of pure white are added in strategic areas, then …then an orange-brown is applied in lines, before it too is
varnished and once dry a dark wash is applied… blended in… blended in…

…the completed effects… …everything is a little less stark once the matt varnish is applied The cannon are painted black then pencil graphite is scrubbed on…

…all the components of the gun

bay before final assembly…

…the assembled gun bay.

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 …all the other details are picked out
much in the same way as the cockpit,
The upper decking although the radome and anti-collision
under the canopy light get a coat of gloss varnish, while
is painted black, the rest is matt
then the radome is
picked out in light
khaki…

All the components

The area under the of the interior
rear decking is painted lined up
and weathered with a
combination of oil dots
and blending, just like the
cockpit interior

The assembled
interior…

elements. I therefore resorted to my favourite applied the anti-glare Olive Drab panel that
paint for such schemes, Tamiya enamels, runs along the dorsal spine from the nose to …and the whole
lot fitted into the
and in this case I used Matt Aluminum XF-16. the tail.
fuselage
This was diluted at a ratio of 70% paint and Once the protective varnish coat was dry
30% solvent to create the ideal base coat I applied an oil wash from the AK-Interactive
application. With the paint dry, I now masked range and then sealed this with
those areas that were painted red, the front another coat of
ring of the engine inlet (this is just a ring, it gloss varnish.
does not cover the entire front piece) and the A wash was
wingtip fuel tanks. Once that colour was on, I then applied

“I have to say that this is

one of the best models I've
built as far as quality and
simplicity goes”

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The wheel wells are painted with green-yellow (XF-4), then this is …RAL 5008 is a grey-blue and this is used to highlight the …then Tamiya enamel chrome silver (X-11) is used to pick out
mixed with white to lighten it and allow some highlights to be added… various pipes in each bay… other details…

…followed by a soft pencil used to add some paint chips… …then gloss varnish (left to dry) followed by a dark wash… …the completed well once the whole lot is matt varnished

…the front section received two light and

uneven coats of two shades of green, then the
yellow bands are masked and sprayed on…

…weathering of the front

You can see in this half of the bomb starts
shot, just how little filler by masking off the tail
is required on this kit section…

The kit bombs with new

plasticard fins, kit nose fuses
and lanyards added from
copper wire and lead foil… …once dry a top
coat of brownish-
green is very thinly
…acrylic chipping applied, then…
medium is applied
all over the front
section…

…once happy with the result,

the lanyard was picked out and
the whole lot sealed with varnish,
then it was time to turn the
masking round and paint the tail
a deep green

..using a damp
brush, you can
scrub away
to remove the
top colour in
layers or in dots
and irregular
patterns…

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 Once the whole unit was gloss varnished and had dried, dots of
yellow and red ochre, along with a dark grey oil paint were applied…
…finally small dots of a pure yellow can be added and
blended in…
to the panel and rivets, then drawn back in
the direction of the airflow, and once that was
done it was again sealing with gloss varnish in
readiness for the placement of the decals.
With regard to the decals, these did not
come in the kit, they were a gift from my good
…once everything is levelled with a coat of matt varnish the effect is quite pleasing
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…this was then blended using a wide brush moistened with
enamel thinners…
…paint chips on the tail were done with beige, which was applied
with a fine brush then sealed with gloss varnish, and once that was
dry some yellow ochre oil paint was randomly applied…
friends and they came from the Colorado
Decal range. They are of high quality, not just
in the print and detail, but because they lack
any noticeable carrier film. With the decals
all applied all that remained was to integrate
them with the rest of the airframe as far as
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…some dots of dark wash are also applied, and also blended in…
...and then blended in…
weathering goes. For this I used an oil wash
of dark grey, concentrating on any areas that
would also see dirt and grime, mainly covers
and access panels opened and closed during
maintenance etc. My technique is to put a little
oil on the edge of the panels and then with a
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The kit wheels had to go, as the vinyl
tyres will crack over time, so here you
can see the replacement resin ones from
Fisher Model & Pattern
Each oleo was painted with a base coat
of metallic grey, then drybrushed with
enamel chrome silver (X-11)
The same processes are used to weather all the The insides of the undercarriage doors are weathered in a
undercarriage as used elsewhere on the airframe; similar manner to that used for each wheel well
only the doors need match what the underside
looks like and the tyres have ‘dirt’ courtesy of a
drybrush with grey

The completed
undercarriage sub-
assembles

"The wheels supplied use vinyl tyres on plastic hubs, and over time the vinyl will crack and break, so I
turned to Fisher Models to obtain a set of their high quality replacement resin wheels"

…then an overall but not heavy

coat of matt aluminium (XF-16) is
applied…

…first the front

canopy is sprayed
matt black…
The completed
airframe, all
masked and ready
for paint…

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 …the areas that will
be red now need to be …the whole dorsal spine has
masked off… to be masked off…

…the red applied

(later the inner faces
of each tip tank would
have to be repainted
aluminium)…

…so that the Olive

Drab anti-glare panel
can be applied…

…all the main colours on and the

masking removed…

…pick out the various maintenance access hatches roughly with …then scrub the graphite around the area… …a metallic silver watercolour pencil is used to add chips to the
a soft 2B pencil… Olive Drab panel…

All the decals are

applied, left to dry, then
another coat of gloss
varnish applied

…everything now gets a coat

of gloss varnish

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Dark Brown enamel

wash is applied to all
the panel lines of the
fuselage…

…left to dry for a while, then

the excess removed with a
cloth in the direction of the
airflow; you are looking to
achieve a ‘patchy’ effect…

..this time though

the excess is
removed with a
combination of
cloth and thinners,
the latter creating
the patching you
can see, which will
be covered in detail
a bit later…

The wings and tail get the

same treatment…

…a closer look at the patchy effect on the wing The underside of the wing gets the same treatment with the dark ..once dry and wiped away you can see the effect is already quite
brown wash in all the inner panel lines; this effect does not need patchy…
you to cover all the panel lines and access panels…

…now a dark grey oil paint is applied randomly around the …then using a flat brush moistened with enamel thinners, scrub …then with a wider brush that is only just damp with thinners,
access panels… the oil paint out from the edges of each panel… gently blend things in so that the contrast is not too great…

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 …the final effect is the ‘rain drop’ effect, simply done using a …resulting in this very effective ‘speckled’ effect Yellow Ochre oil paint is dotted near the panel lines on each tip
fine brush loaded with enamel thinners, with which you touch the tank, then blended in the usual manner
surface and it will clump up the oil paint…

flat brush, blend the oil to the outside of the
panels and after fifteen or twenty minutes, use
a very fine brush, moistened with Humbrol
enamel thinners, to add a little stippling to
make it all look dirty. No need to cover the
airframe with these effects, only deal with
those areas that are known to be subject to
everyday maintenance. The tops of the landing
gear get the same treatment, as the hydraulic
rams get comprehensive wear with the aircraft
stored outdoors and wear and tear on the
lower and undersurfaces will be a lot higher
that that which you see about the tail unit. The
last task was to paint the canopy, using white
aluminium for this.
With all the main assembly and painted
finished, it was just a case of adding the
landing gear very carefully, ensuring it was
all at the correct angle, and paying particular
attention to the front oleo as its alignment
is more tenuous and the whole thing is very
delicate. ●

All the weathering

complete
The whole of the underside
is done in this manner and
oil paint is also streaked
down the centreline to
replicate spilt fluids
All of the various sub-
assembles waiting for
the final assembly

The masks are removed

from the cockpit and the
pilot’s head re-installed

FINAL VERDICT
I have to say that this is one of the best models I’ve built as far as quality and simplicity goes, and although the type itself is not my favourite, (I
prefer the F model), I have to say that I would not mind doing another example from a European country, maybe France? Once completed the
model is not very big and all you really need add are the photo-etched parts for the interior and the replacement resin wheels, resulting in a very
nice model being added to your collection.

Thanks: I want to dedicate this model to my good friends from Portugal, Emanuel Alves and Pedro and Pablo Barbosa.

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SPECIFICATION: Battle
of
Britain No.1
Tamiya 1:48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Kit No.: 61023
Materials: IM
Availability: The Hobby Company Ltd (UK Importer) and

The Spit f i
Tamiya stockists worldwide
Price Guide: £19.95

BEFORE STARTING:
● Humbrol Liquid Poly
● Tamiya Masking Tape
● Sprue Cutters
● Tweezers
● Scalpel
● Plasti-Zap Cyanoacrylate Glue
● Gunze-Sangyo Mr Cement S
● Gunze-Sangyo Mr Surfacer 500
● Gunze-Sangyo Mr Dissolved Putty
● Microscale Micro Set and Sol Decal Solutions Built & Written by Alan Price from the UK
● Microscale Micro Flat and Micro Gloss Varnish
● Microscale Micro Kristal Klear

ACCESSORIES & DECALS USED:

Aires
#4458 Spitfire Mk V Cockpit Set
Eduard
#FE199 Spitfire Mk I Detail Set - Zoom
Quick & Easy
#Q48059 Spitfire Mk I/Early Mk V Exhausts
EagleCals
EC#157 Spitfire Mk Ia

PAINTS USED:
CSI Creos (Gunze-Sangyo) Mr Aqueous Color acrylic:
H11 Flat White
H12 Flat Black
H72 Dark Earth
H73 Dark Green

Humbrol enamel:
11 Silver
33 Matt Black
34 Matt White
56 Aluminium

Tamiya acrylic:
X-11 Chrome Silver
X-25 Clear Green
X-27 Clear Red
XF-64 Red Brown
XF-69 NATO Black
XF-71 Cockpit Green

Flory Model wash:

Black
Dark Dirt

AIRBRUSHES USED:
Iwata HP-B Plus
Available in the UK via The Airbrush Company, visit
www.airbrushes.com

DIMENSIONS: 1:1
Span - 36ft 10in (11.23m)
Length - 29ft 11in (9.12m)
Height - 11ft 5in (3.48m)

DIMENSIONS: 1:48
Span - 233.9mm
Length - 190mm
Height - 72.5mm

REFERENCE

I have read many books in preparation for this series, and
with each article I will try to include not just references
relevant to the aircraft featured but also related to the
wider subject of the battle.
● On Target Special, 70th Anniversary The Battle of
Britain, by Peter Scott & Gary Madgwick (The Aviation
Workshop Publications Ltd, ISBN 978-1-904643-36-1)
● Spitfire Mark I, P9374 by Andy Saunders (Grub Street
Publishing, ISBN-13-978-1-908117-06-9)
● The Battle of Britain the Jubilee History, by Richard
Hough & Denis Richards (Guild Publishing)
● The Battle of Britain; Five Months that Changed
Britain, May-October 1940, by James Holland (Bantam
Press, ISBN 978-0-593059-13-50
● The Few, by Dilip Sarkar (Amberley Publishing Plc,
ISBN 978-4-45600-50-5)
● The Decisive Duel, Spitfire vs 109, by David Isby
(Abacus, ISBN 978-0-349-12365-3)
● The Battle of Britain then and now, by Winston G.
Ramsey (Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd, ISBN
0-900913-19-3)
● Fighter Command 1939-1945 by Ian Carter (Ian Allan
Publishing, ISBN 0-7110-2842-7)
S
cale Models used the 1:72 kits
available back then for their
build. These days we have far
more choice in kits and can
build most of the aircraft in
1:32, 1:48 and 1:72, something that could
only be dreamt of back in 1979! My builds
will all be to 1:48, big enough to show off
plenty of detail but also still fairly quick to
build. The list of builds is not set in stone
and the final builds in the series may be
subject to a few changes. This is because
as the project evolves over the coming
months, I’m not quite sure where it may
lead. Something I am keen to explore
in the series is how camouflage and
markings changed during the battle; this
is an area of great confusion but there is
a lot of good research out there that now
helps to accurately map out the changes.
As a result I’d like to show some of these
changes in the builds.
Each article will detail the build but will
also cover historic aspects of the aircraft
subject, the battle and the people involved.
At the moment, as I write this article, the
Spitfire is the only build complete but build
number two is well under way and number
three is in the early stages of construction.
There is a large pile of kits staring back at

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f ire
I’ve been fascinated with the Battle of Britain period of WWII for many years. Way back in the 1970s I was
building Airfix Spitfires and Heinkels to relive scenes from the Battle of Britain film ‐ even though the Spitfires
were Mk IXs! The magazine Scale Models was very popular back then and in the late 1970s it ran a series of
articles on building models of the famous Battle of Britain aircraft. These were then collected into a special,
which I bought and attempted (poorly) to imitate some of Ray Rimell’s and Neil Robinson’s great builds. I
still have that magazine and while it’s looking a bit battered after years of use, it provided the inspiration for
this series. Over the coming months I hope to bring you a series of articles on the Battle of Britain aircraft to
coincide with the 75th anniversary of that event.

me from across my model building room – this
seems like quite a challenge at the moment.
I’ll hold my hands up right now and state that
despite of the research I have done, there
will be errors. Having only just completed the
Spitfire I know there are a couple of things I’m
not too happy with, but it is very difficult to be
100% accurate after 75 years have passed.
No.1 – The Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia
By 1940 the Spitfire was being deployed in
increasing numbers in the RAF. Air Chief
Marshal Dowding had kept all the Spitfires
back from France and sent only Hurricanes to
support the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
He knew that the Spitfire would be needed to
stave off the attacking fighters of the Luftwaffe
in the coming months and didn’t want to loose
any if possible before that time arrived. At this
time, the Spitfire equipped nineteen squadrons
of the RAF with the Hurricane equipping a
further thirty. Officially the Battle of Britain is
said to have taken place between the 10th of
July and the 31st of October, but many battles
took place before and after these dates. As
a result, I will not restrict my builds to this
window, but instead look through the whole of
1940 for my subjects.
The subject of this first build is L1016,
DW•Q of No.610 Squadron, based at RAF
Biggin Hill during May 1940. The Auxiliary
squadron was equipped with Spitfires from
late 1939 and the aircraft depicted was piloted
by Flying Officer Albert Rupert John Medcalf
and was shot down while providing cover for
the Dunkirk evacuations on the 27th of May.
Believed downed by a Bf 109, the body of 26
year old F/O Medcalf was never recovered.
The Build
Tamiya’s Spitfire Mk I provided the base for
this build. It has been around for a few years
now and while a basically sound kit, it is
somewhat lacking compared to more modern
Spitfire kits. This is most noticeable in the

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Stage-by-Stage - Construction

As can be seen, I had originally intended to go with the Tamiya interior, hence the painted plastic! The The interior is almost complete and looks a whole lot better than the basic Tamiya cockpit
Aires side panel is modified with the addition of the hand pump for the undercarriage

With everything in place, careful test fitting was done before gluing the fuselage together, to ensure The Tamiya wing has gun barrel stubs sticking out in some of the positions, which is incorrect, as
everything fits correctly these barrels were all inside the wing. Fine brass tube was used to replace them

The fixed parts of the canopy were attached

prior to painting, along with the undercarriage

The build went together very quickly and easily

with almost no filler required

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 Stage-by-Stage -
Paint & Markings
cockpit, which does not have the lower parts
of the fuselage and is hollow into the wing
roots. To correct this the Aires Mk V cockpit
was used. ‘Mk V’ I hear you all say?...., that Painting begins with a coat of
can't be right! Well, no, it’s not right, but it’s Mr Surfacer, which provides
the earliest resin cockpit available so the first a smooth surface for the
job is to correct the correction. camouflage colours
In the last few years a couple of ‘new’
Spitfires have appeared in UK skies. These
are rebuilt Mk Is produced by Mark One
Partners; their Spitfires are quite simply
stunning, being rebuilt exactingly to Mk I
specification, in each case to the exact state
they were in on the day they crashed during
the Battle of Britain. An amazing amount
of research was done to achieve these
restorations and the book ‘Spitfire Mark I
P9374’ provides a lot of useful information to
help modellers create an accurate Mk I. So
for a Mk I cockpit what do we need A pre-shade with black
follows the base coat
to change?

● The bulk of the changes are to the

starboard side of the cockpit where the
undercarriage hydraulics need removing and
replacing with the hand pump assembly.
● The spare gunsight bulbs need to be
moved and a few later items of equipment
can also be removed.
● There was no pilot’s head armour in
this version, so the seat frame needs this
removing.
● There are two new holes to drill in the
frame after removing the armour. The 12 volt
regulator is on the back of the headrest.
● A rectangular oil tank is visible just inside
the rear part of the canopy.
● The seat was metal, not the later reddish
phenolic plastic, so it’s painted green. It may
or may not have had a flare rack, so I left it
off mine. The underside was tackled
first, airbrushing the black
● The control column had a round gun ‘fire’ and white
button, painted red.
● The access door did not have a crowbar.
● The Mk II reflector gunsight was fitted with
the oval glass, the rectangular glass arrived
after the Battle of Britain.

Not too many changes and all were

accomplished with a few cuts and some
scrap plastic. The actual airframe is pretty
good. The shape of the small wing bulges
for the wheels is a little suspect, but I can
live with that. There was no IFF equipment
on these early Spitfires and Tamiya have
correctly left off any evidence of the lead
mounts on the fuselage sides. Fitting the
Aires cockpit was not too difficult though
the fuselage needs to be thinned a lot and
it was almost transparently thin in places by
the time I’d got it all fitted properly. Care was
needed modifying the resin parts as it's all
The top colours were airbrushed freehand with careful
to easy to break them. I did break the seat reference to the correct camouflage ‘A’ pattern
frame while removing the armour but this
was easily repaired. The interior was then

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Stage-by-Stage -
Paint & Markings CONT...
I masked and airbrushed the
lines for the wing walkways in
black, I prefer doing this rather
than fiddling trying to get long
thin decals to straighten out!
With the colours completed,
a coat of Microscale Gloss
prepares the build for the
decals
painted with Tamiya XF-71 Cockpit Green
and given a wash of Flory Models Black.
A drybrush of lightened green then helped
bring out the remaining detail. The areas
forward of the instrument panel and behind
the seat frame were painted in Tamiya X-11
Chrome Silver. I used the Eduard photo-
etched instrument panel, which is superb
and fitted the Aires parts without difficulty.
With the cockpit fitted and the fuselage
closed up, the build proceeded at lightning
speed. The fit of the parts was superb with
only a bit of Mr Surfacer needed at the front
and rear wing joins. As the undercarriage
was painted the same colour as the
underside, this was installed before painting.
Brake lines were added to the undercarriage
using 0.3mm lead wire. The propeller was
assembled and left off the airframe for
painting. With construction complete, it was
time to paint.

Colours
This Spitfire crashed before
the end of May 1940 so
this enables me to get
a pretty good idea of
how the aircraft was
painted. At this point
in 1940, the RAF was
still very concerned
with identifying its own
aircraft from the ground.
The Cartograf-produced This was because the
EagleCal decals were excellent
Chain Home Radar stations all
and a delight to work with
faced out to sea. Once an enemy
force came inland, the RAF relied on the
Observer Corps to send in visual reports
on enemy aircraft sightings. The black
and white underside was found to greatly
aid identifying friendly forces. The pattern
of the underside was not that simple, as
early aircraft had the port wing black and
starboard white and this left the underside
of the nose, fuselage and tailplanes in the
standard Aluminium. However, to make
the aircraft as conspicuous as possible for
use over France in support of the BEF, the
entire undersurface was painted black on
the port side of the centreline and white on
the starboard side. At this point in 1940,
most, but not all, aircraft had gone to the full
black and white finish. The advent of Sky
With the remaining parts attached, pin wash done,
exhaust stains added and the red gun port patches
undersides was still a short while off: Air
airbrushed on, the build is ready for its finish coat of Ministry Signal X915 was issued on the 6th
matt varnish of June and this instigated the application
of Sky on the undersides. The upper
surfaces were unchanged throughout this
time, being the standard temperate land
scheme of Dark Earth and Dark Green in
patterns A or B – A was used on aircraft with
an even last digit to the serial number, B on
odd numbers. Like most rules, this wasn’t

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 “It is somewhat lacking compared to more modern Spitfire kits. This
is most noticeable in the cockpit, which does not have the lower parts
of the fuselage and is hollow into the wing roots”
set in stone, so it pays to check references!
Markings, on the other hand, were, like the
underside colours, in a state of flux. The
pre-war small fuselage roundel was replaced
with a larger, three-colour version to which,
again to aid identification, a yellow border the
same width as the blue ring of the roundel was
added in accordance with Signal X485 of the
1st of May 1940. On the Spitfire in particular,
this caused problems because the existing
roundel was already pretty large, and adding
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the yellow border in some cases made the
roundel bigger than the fuselage and this is
the situation we see with No.610 Squadron
aircraft. Underwing roundels had been applied
early in 1940 but only for use over France
following the issue of AMO A.520 on the 7th
December 1939. On the 15th of May 1940,
Signal X296 was issued requiring all fighters
to have underwing roundels as more aircraft
were being involved in fighting over France.
This was further modified on the 4th of June
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to require a yellow ring around the roundel
on the black, port wing. The fin flashes were
also introduced in accordance with Signal
X485 and initially no dimensions were given, it
simply stated that vertical stripes of red, white
and blue, all of the same width, be painted
on the fin. This led to the many and varied
versions being seen throughout the battle;
eventually they were standardised in size.
Squadron codes were similarly of varying size,
the order for these specified 48 inches but this
was just too big on a Spitfire, as seen by the
application on No.610 Squadron’s aircraft and
the large codes and roundels led to a rather
distinctive look to their aircraft. There is one
final ‘marking’, the square gas patch on the
port wing was seen on aircraft at this time and
may have been present on L1016, so I chose
to add the patch to my build.
The EagleCal decal sheet used for the
markings on my Spitfire captures the variations
correctly; I cannot disagree at all with any of
the camouflage and markings suggested for
this aircraft. The black and white undersides
seem correct for the date, as other aircraft
in the squadron showed this feature at the
time. No underwing roundels – well it's 50:50
with the previously-mentioned signal being
issued so close to the date of the loss of this
aircraft. Interestingly Mark One Partners went
with roundels on P9374. The sizes of the
roundels and codes are also spot on. In short,
given there don’t appear to be any photos
of this particular aircraft, it’s about as close
as we can ever get to producing an accurate
representation of it.
On with the Colours
Painting began with my usual coat of Mr
Surfacer followed by a black pre-shade. Then
it was on with the white half of the underside
using GSI Creos (Gunze-Sangyo) H11 Flat
White. This was then carefully masked
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“Care was needed modifying
the resin parts as it's all too
easy to break them”
down the centre line and the black half of
the underside painted in H12 Flat Black. I
then overcoated the whole underside with
Microscale Gloss to protect the delicate matt
surface from damage while masking the upper
colours. The camouflage began with the
brown using H72 Dark Earth then following
the ‘A’ pattern guide I airbrushed the Dark
Green using H73 freehand, keeping as tight
an edge as possible. Some sources suggest
that the camouflage was applied using masks,
but I’m still unsure on this. Looking at many
photos, some aircraft appear to show a hard
demarcation but when areas of that aircraft
are seen close up, this appears to be actually
a tight, sprayed edge. It’s possible that early
aircraft were masked but given the length of
FINAL VERDICT
Tamiya’s Spitfire Mk I is a great kit, possibly one of the easiest builds I’ve ever undertaken. Adding the resin cockpit ups the game somewhat, as
even at best this type of resin upgrade is never that easy to fit! The end result is a great representation of the Spitfire in the early stages of the
Battle of Britain.
What’s next?
The Spitfire’s foe of course, the Bf 109E
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time it would take to mask an entire aircraft, it
seems unlikely that this would have been done
in wartime. Some sources suggest rubber matt
‘templates’ were used but – if that was the
case, every aircraft should be virtually identical
and they are not. Mark One Partners hand-
painted P9374 & N3200 and from a distance
this does look like a fairly hard edge;
you decide?
Once the camouflage was complete, I
airbrushed a coat of Microscale Gloss in
preparation for the Eagle Cals Decals. These
are produced by Cartograf and reminded me
of the decals they produce for Wingnut Wings.
They performed just as well too, settling over
raised detail and into panel lines very nicely
after applying Microscale setting solutions. A
coat of Klear sealed the decals and then a pin
wash of Flory Models Dark Dirt was applied
underneath, with black on the upper surfaces.
Another coat of Klear sealed this then it was
time to apply a bit of weathering – not too
much as this aircraft was not that old. I limited
this therefore to some exhaust staining applied
with the trusty thin mix of Tamiya XF-1 Black
and XF-64 Red Brown. Chipping was applied
around the wing root with a fine brush and
Humbrol 56 Aluminium. With the final bits
attached a coat of Microscale Matt was applied
and once dry, all the masking was removed.
With the navigation lights, aerial lead and the
open section of the canopy added, the build
was complete. ●
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SPECIFICATION:
Roden 1:72 Felixstowe F.2A ‘Late version, Saunders-built’
Kit No.: 014
Materials: IM
Availability: Pocketbond Ltd (UK Importer) and Roden
stockists worldwide
Price Guide: £25.99

BEFORE STARTING:
● MEK [Methyl Ethyl Ketone] liquid cement
● Cyanoacrylate & Accelerator
● Tamiya Masking Tape
● Side Cutters
● Scalpel
● Needle Files
● Drills
● Wet & Dry Sandpaper
● Tweezers
● Johnson’s Klear
● Micro Sol/Set Decal Setting Solutions
● Microscale Decal Film
● Clear Decal Paper
● Paint Brushes (ranging from 10/0 to 4)
● Monovic Invisible Thread
● Lycra Mending Thread
● Preiser Figures Set of 1925 Pilots (#72 510)

PAINTS USED:
Alclad II lacquer:
Aluminium

Aircraft Colours acrylic:

6113 Medium Sea Grey

Andrea Colours acrylic:

AC29 Silver
AC41 Wood

Humbrol enamel:
Matt Coat

Vallejo acrylic:
Satin varnish
908 Carmine Red
917 Beige
950 Black
951 White

Vallejo Air acrylic:

013 Yellow Olive
965 Prussian Blue

Winsor & Newton Artist Oil paint:

Paynes Grey
Yellow Ochre

AIRBRUSH USED:
Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH
UK Importer: The Airbrush Company
www.airbrushes.com

DIMENSIONS: 1:1

Porte’s
Span – 95ft 7.5in (29.15m) [Upper],
68ft 5in (20.73m) [Lower] Built & Written by Stewart Atkins from the UK
Length – 46ft 3in (14.10m)
Height – 17ft 6in (5.33m)

PRIZE
DIMENSIONS: 1:72
Span - 404.7mm [Upper], 287.9mm [Lower]
Length - 195.8mm
Height - 74mm

REFERENCES
● My primary source of reference for this build was
the excellent Windsock Datafile No.82 from Albatros
Publishing (ISBN No 1-902207-24-6)
● I would also recommend the book ‘The Spider Web - the
Romance of a Flying Boat Flight in the First World War’
by T. D. Hallam (Arms and Armour Press)
● Also the http://www.seawings.co.uk/ website is well
worth a visit

I have long had an inclination to build one of these models with their gaudy and loud
colour schemes and the advent of the Roden kit spurred my interest in the subject. I
was lucky enough to get asked by your Editor to build this model and I can truly say,
please don’t give me another project with rigging like this one! Honestly though the
finished model really stands out in my collection and I am going to build another one
this time from the box (with rigging!).

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his was the first Roden kit I had
built and I have to say that I was
pleasantly surprised with the
quality of the parts. The fidelity
of the trailing edges is especially
worthy of note. All surface detail is as per
the original with either raised panels or
recessed butt joints where there would be
one. The breakdown of the parts is logical
but care will need to be exercised when
removing some of the finer parts from
the runners. Two hundred and twenty-six
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parts make up this kit split into 10 grey-
coloured sprues and one clear. There is
also a small decal sheet, but more on that
horror later! The instructions are well laid
out and come in an A4 sized 6-page format.
There is a parts diagram and shaded areas
highlighting those parts that are redundant
in this kit. There is also a rigging diagram,
which is useful but not as comprehensive
as that in the reference book I used. The
instructions are topped off with a series of
painting guides with Humbrol paints listed
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by numbers and name. As with most kits
these days the manufacturer has made an
attempt to maximise the use of its sprues
and therefore there are several repeat
mouldings that are all well defined. The
flying surfaces have restrained rib detail
and the locating points for the interplane
struts are subtle but useful. Some minor
flash was found on some of the smaller
parts but the removal of this was not difficult
providing care and patience were exercised.
Accuracy-wise the kit fits very closely to the
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Stage-by-Stage - Construction

The photo-etched set from Part is quite extensive, as these two The etched parts are extensively used in the interior, as these two shots of the updated floor etc. show
frets prove

The instrument panel combines etched brass and an acetate film to create a Quite a lot of etched is used to create detail along the sides of each fuselage half, adding a lot more detail than is
very effective item once assembled and carefully painted moulded in situ

With the fuselage halves joined, you can see how much the Careful painting brings all the detail out.
etched set adds

published plans in the reference
quoted, I suspect that the model
may well have been based on
these plans?
Extras
I was also sent the fantastic etched
detail set designed for this kit by
Part of Poland (#S72-221). I have
“I was also sent been a big fan of Part etched sets
the fantastic etched for a while and this has to be the
very best available, the contents
detail set designed are two sheets of very finely etched
for this kit by Part brass and a clear instrument sheet
of Poland (#S72- with replacement windscreens.
Unfortunately nearly all of the
221). I have been set is used inside the model and
a big fan of Part most will never be seen again,
etched sets for a but at least I know it is there! All
while and this has new floors, sidewalls, fuel tanks,
instrument panels and controls
to be the very best are included, while externally
available” there are new radiator faces, prop
bosses, gunsights and mountings,
control horns and various hull
modifications.
Just for the record, there are
decals available from AIMS for
the F.2, but these are for the later
enclosed cockpit version offered by
Roden as kit number 019.
Engines
With a model of this complexity
Roden have chosen a well defined
route of building that starts with the
prominent Rolls-Royce Eagle V12
engines. Each is a model in its own
right and I added some wires to
replicate the fuel lines and ignition
leads. The front radiator faces were
replaced with the etched parts and
the whole lot added to the mounting
frames with a little superglue. I
would advise carefully examining
the instructions and reference
before doing this, as the placement
is crucial for final assembly of the
model and the location mounting
points for the struts are not readily
identifiable. 33 parts make up each
kit engine with another 13 from the
etched set and I have to say that
I had a real problem getting the
exhaust to stay in place. I took the
liberty to paint the engines at this
early stage because once they are
installed they are not accessible
from any angle.
Cockpit & Interior
Here is where most of the etched
set is used, and to say it’s a great fit
is an understatement and testament
to the manufacturer's design.
Some of the floor and sidewalls are
laminated with etched parts that
once painted and weathered look
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 of the sidewall detail was required and this
was easily achieved with a small chisel and
sandpaper. The seats are a little disappointing
and I replaced them with new ones made from
sheet pewter (lead foil from a wine bottle neck
will do the same thing!). I copied the shape
and size of the kit seat by laying the part over
the pewter then cutting around the edge with a
new scalpel blade. As I intended to put a figure
or two in this model I chose not to try to make
any harnesses, added to which I could not find
any definitive reference for them. As with most
etched sets these days the instrument dial
faces were replaced with clear acetate backing
which needed painting with a light shade of
cream. The resulting sandwich of parts was
painted to look like the wooden surface of the
real thing; I used Vallejo acrylics wood then
once dry, I drybrushed Burnt Umber oil paint
over the top which gives an impression of
wood grain. The final assembly was then, once
dry, varnished with Protec Hydrocoating Gloss.
The etched sets also add a great deal to the armament, as seen here with the Scarff rings for the front and rear gun positions, plus the
other Vickers machine-guns in the foreground; etched is just so good for this type of detail in 1:72
A quick test-fit before painting the interior With the guns primed the upper hull is added to the assembled lower section and as you can see a little
goes to highlight just how much etched is filler is needed
used and how effective it is in this scale
The etched is not restricted to the very visible areas of the exterior,
you also get detail like this on the steps in the planing hull
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Once all of the assembly was done I turned
to painting the finer details, which I picked out
with various oils. The control arms are a work
of the etcher's art and this laminates several
parts to make up the complex structure that
once painted really looks as if a huge amount
of effort has gone into its building.
Fuselage
By now most of the internal work was
completed and I turned my attention to the
fuselage/hull. This kit depicts the open top
version and as such the top of the fuselage
is a separate part to facilitate the other
versions from the sprues; there are several
other versions of this basic design, one with
enclosed cockpit, one is the Curtiss version
and another has the raised upper gun turret,
this being mounted behind the upper wing at
the end of a precarious ladder in a canvas
tube assembly! I chose to deviate from the
instructions in order to fit the mid-wing lower
The tail assembly is quite complex due to
the mass of struts
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section, which I thought would help with getting
everything fitted and filled to save trying to do
it later as Roden suggest. The joint between
the upper deck and the side was not the best,
and with some muttering to myself I chose to
brace the fuselage from the inside to get it to
open up wide enough to fit the decking. This
was achieved with lengths of stretched sprue
added in front of the cockpit and behind the
same area. The top deck was then carefully
superglued one small step at a time until it was
secured. A quick spray of accelerator at each
step helped the alignment and strengthened
the joint.
I took the liberty of adding an extra brace
in the form of a laminated length of sheet
pewter over the kit external braces, which
once superglued in place would be disguised
with a layer of paint. The purpose of this extra
spar was to help take out the spring that you
get in plastic and thus make the structure more
rigid. I suspected this would aid supporting of
The etched details are not just restricted to the guns, you also get
new fins for the bombs
The complex nature of the fuselage shape
means you have to be careful not to fill and
eradicate such detail as seen here on the
fuselage sides
Trying to keep everything aligned is the key with this kit
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Stage-by-Stage - Construction CONT...

As you can see here, there is quite a bit of filling and sanding needed to smooth out the major joints

The engines are well detailed from the box, but the etched components just add that little extra Even without paint, the engine, radiator and The complex joints for the exhausts and other
propeller unit looks impressive pipework all require filling and Mr Surfacer is
the ideal medium for this

“The top deck was then carefully superglued one small step at a time until it was secured. A quick spray
of accelerator at each step helped the alignment and strengthened the joint”

With the guns now temporarily removed, the

wing and upper decking are all installed and
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the outer wing panels, as they would be quite
a weight on the centre section and I could
foresee it overstressing the fuselage spine joint
and possibly breaking later if not reinforced in
this manner. With all of the structure made it
was time to add some of the smaller etched
items like the edging to the step, and here
Part are again to be congratulated on the fit
of the parts. I chose this point to attach the
outer wing panels of the lower wing and the
butt joint was carefully glued with a liberal coat
of MEK, then this was left overnight in a jig to
settle and harden in the position I wanted. The
joint was not the best in the world and some
brushed-on Mr Surfacer 1000 filled the small
mismatches, and once this surface filler had
dried, I gently rubbed it over with a cotton bud
dampened with alcohol, which softens the Mr
Surfacer and with practice will allow you to
Stage by Stage - Paint, Markings & Weathering
The first task in painting is to apply white overall to the sub-assembly thus far, then mask and apply the blue stripes
Ensuring that the tape is completely stuck down prior to spraying will reduce the amount of ‘creep’ under it, which is extremely important with a type like this
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Once painted, the
engine units look very
effective
remove just enough to fill the gap and not the
surface details.
A final check over of the model and
correcting any faults was followed by masking
up with Tamiya tape and, where appropriate,
sponge foam. Next the ubiquitous coat of
Halfords white primer. Another check for
blemishes and the first colour could be
sprayed.
Paint & Markings
As I chose the blue and white striped scheme
I painted the white first. In this case I used
Vallejo gloss white, then with careful masking,
the blue was selected and sprayed. “What
blue?” I hear you ask, well I selected a blue
I liked and used that! Remember that these
colours were subject to the ravages of sea
water and pollution weathering them, so as
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a rule of thumb it is really a case of personal
interpretation; I tried to keep it close to the
roundel blue, though! Bear in mind that when
doing such a complex scheme there are
several things to be aware of. Firstly there is
the likelihood of some of the paint seeping
under the masks if they are not properly
attached. This I overcome by burnishing the
edges down just before I spray. I then remove
the mask as soon as possible to avoid any
ragged edges being formed when the tape
is removed but this effectively means risking
the paint still being tacky and possibly leaving
marks on the white. Secondly, as much as you
measure and re-apply the masks there will
probably be a line that does not look straight
when painted, especially over such a complex
shape. Here I have found it best to remask
and respray small spots where necessary.
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Stage by Stage - Paint, Markings & Weathering CONT...
Fortunately I only had the second blue stripe
from the nose looking slightly off vertical and
this was easily rectified before the final colour
scheme was unmasked.
Guns
For 1:72 the kit Lewis guns are very good but
with some small additions from the etched
set they really come alive. I used the Scarff
mounting rings from the etched set as this
gave the structure a really detailed, yet
delicate look. Careful bending of the brass
on my homemade bending tool worked
well. I would recommend that with all brass
etched sets, except those that are pre-painted
(printed), that you hold the brass over an open
flame until the metal begins to glow, then,
quickly dip it into cold water. This process
is commonly called annealing and what it
Stage by Stage - Rigging
With one side rigged, I recall I had not taken any images of the
process, so here we go with me drilling the holes through the
port wing
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The decals look
quite nice off the
sheet….
…however once in
contact with water
they ‘explode’!
does is to take the inherent spring out of the
metal. It then allows the modeller to bend the
softer brass with more accuracy and when
it is attached it should not spring off due to
tension within the material. Once the guns
were assembled I added the sighting rings
and painted them black. There are several
methods of representing Gunmetal and here
I drybrushed a light coat of silver mixed with
a touch of blue. Once dry the whole structure
was washed with black oil paint and set aside
to dry ready for attaching near the end of the
build. Having checked the reference I found
that there are several different armament
variations, so I suggest that the builder
decides early on which they want. I used one
gun at the nose position, two at the mid-upper
fuselage and one either side of the mid-
fuselage station. There are also several spare
Next the rigging is threaded through the holes, using tweezers to
keep a tight grip on the end
ammunition cases to add to the inside of the
fuselage, which had been done earlier.
Wings
Trailing edges like these don’t come along too
often, as they are some of the finest I have
seen on an injection moulded kit. The wing
set-up is simplicity itself, the sections come
as straight butt joints to the next panel. Where
the most stress would be, i.e. the lower wing,
I would recommend you pin them. The upper
wing was laid out on a flat board and with the
aid of a straight edge I assembled the panels
with a liberal brushing of MEK. The structure
was periodically checked for alignment and
once set it was left overnight to harden. In
the morning I checked the joint, cleaned it up
where necessary and drilled the rigging holes
where they are needed. I took the liberty of
using the plans to decide upon the placement
of the holes and marked them with a pencil
before I drilled any out.
Lower wing construction was very similar
but here I had to jig the model overnight to
get the set of the wings as I wanted. I had
already drilled all of the rigging holes. Now
came the make or break part, the mating of
the two wings! I had heard and read that some
The twin-wire nature of the type makes for a complex rigging
process, but once in situ and secured with glue, the effect is
very good
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 You especially appreciate the complex nature of the rigging You can see how the rigging is threaded through the upper A lot of rigging and a lot of struts, the latter needing to be as
around areas like the engines and lower wings; the resulting holes will then be filled and the vertical as possible before you ever consider adding the top wing
surrounding paintwork repaired

of the interplane struts were somewhat short
but I have to say I didn’t find this. I worked
very slowly from the lower wing attaching the
interplane struts with MEK one at a time until
I had them all standing nearly vertical. I then
(due to the softened plastic caused by the
drying time of this glue) was able to go back to
the first one and gently align it by eye. In just
about ten minutes all of the struts were erect
and to my eye lined up ready for the upper
wing. With careful and steady alignment of the
upper wing I went through the same process
as before, attaching each strut to its locating
hole and then adding a touch of MEK. I could
have done with an extra pair of hands but with
care the process is manageable. Now all of the
wings were together but the whole assembly
was extremely flimsy. I turned the model
upside down remembering the top wing was
flat and laid the model onto a flat surface. I
then braced the rest of the model until it looked
like it was all lined up and square. I have found
over the years that an easy way to do this is to
look at the model at a low angle and raise the
nose towards the sky. In so doing you should
see the upper wing leading or trailing edge
meet the leading or trailing edge of the other
wing. When they do you can look along its
length to see if the meeting point is the same.
It might not be and this is the point at which
you can twist it all back into line. Be sure to
check the vertical alignment too. Once again
the model was set up and left for a few days
for all the joints to fully harden. Next I added
the engines and their associated struts, which
aided the strength of the structure so far.
With the last of the parts added, like the flying
surfaces, upper wing fences and lower wing
floats, the wings were ready for the rigging,
which I was dreading.
Rigging
As I had only ever rigged one model before
with stretched sprue (this was several years
ago), this would be very much a trial and error

All the filling and sanding will mean there is a lot of paintwork to repair; note that
the starboard upper wing is not painted at all at this stage, that was purely to give
me something to hold when manoeuvring the model

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test to see if I could find a suitable strong,
flexible material that would withstand my
heavy-handedness.
I eventually selected a product from a local
haberdashery called Monovic Invisible Thread.
This comes in two different formats: one is
clear (it actually reflects the colour around it
so it appears to be painted) and the other is
Smoke. I also used Lycra mending thread for
the elevator and rudder controls. My method
of rigging was to locate the points where each
wire would enter the wing or fuselage and drill
a 0.3mm hole there. One of the big difficulties
here is that the strength of these drills is not
what we might call durable. In order to try and
avoid the inevitable breaking the bit needs to
be just protruding from the front of the hand
drill. Checking the reference showed that the
wing rigging was in fact two parallel lengths
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per span, which meant twice the work! With
the anchor holes drilled it was simply a task of
threading the material through, doing one wing
from two lengths. This can be done providing
you think about the route it will need to take
and anchor it at one end. Each time I crossed
a span I anchored it with a small drop of
superglue before I moved on, as this also set
the tension. Once the wings were rigged I went
back and cut off the excess thread that was
on the top surface of the upper wing and lower
surface of the bottom wing to tidy up all the
joints. Not only were there wires running from
front and back there was also a set running
chordwise between each set of interplane
struts. Again I used the same method but had
to be very careful that I didn’t knock one of the
already installed wires. With the wings done I
moved on to the flying surfaces and the same
“I took the liberty to paint the engines at this early stage because
once they are installed they are not accessible from any angle”
method was used except that the long wires
from the tail area were made with Lycra, which
is slightly elastic. Finally, just before the model
was completed, I used a soldering iron held
closely near the rigging (set on a low heat) to
just tighten any sagging cables. This is tricky
but with patience it pays dividends as all of
the rigging is now taught and helps with the
strength of the model (just like the real thing).
I would actually go as far as to say the
whole experience was quite therapeutic and
the model suddenly took on a very fragile,
jewel-like appearance. Although I have not
actually counted them all there are nearly 200
spans of wire in this model!
Decals
Well, as I said earlier, these were a disaster.
Some of it was my own making but most was
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 due to the manufacturer's decals being of poor a checklist with the reference to hand works about the nautical aspect of flying I realised
quality. Bear in mind that there are not too well and I make a note of the page number there would be what is called the moustache.
many markings on this model and what there where I spot something I want to add. The This means that there is a dirty line where the
are end up being placed in very observable guns were fixed in place and the side fuselage watermark lies. I hand painted this on with a
positions. Unfortunately the biggest problem mounts were replaced with a set I made from fine brush laden with a dirty mix of green and
was that once they were soaked in water they
disintegrated into many thousands of pieces.
I took the liberty of stealing the decals from
the second kit I have to build and coated them
with Microscale decal film. They were applied
in the normal manor but this time they crinkled
up into a mess that was unrecoverable. This
left me with no alternative but to strip them
off and after a complete repaint of the wings
I made my own. With the use of clear decal
film and a compass cutter I made templates of
the correct size then sprayed the appropriate
colour through my homemade masks. With
some careful touch-up I was able to get a
good reproduction of the roundel with a white
outline. After a liberal coat of the Microscale
film I applied the new homemade decals
and this time they worked well. I had to slit
them where they go over the flying surface stretched sprue using the originals as a pattern brown. I also added some vertical staining as
junction but that was easily touched in with the but making them finer than can be achieved would be seen on ships. This was done with a
matching paints I had used. A final sealing with injected plastic. The windmill-like items gentle streaking with yellow ochre oil. Finally
coat of Johnson’s Klear and the decal issue between the engines on the fuselage spine the last of the rigging, the nose-to-wing braces,
was solved. were remade as I lost one of the etched fans were attached as per my previously mentioned
to the carpet. I used the other part to copy method and the whole lot was given a coat of
Finishing Off onto paper the shape (I find Post It Notepad matt varnish; I chose to do this with Humbrol
This stage was all about adding the little paper works well). I then cut it out and soaked Matt Cote thinned with cellulose. All that was
parts that would have been knocked off and it in thin superglue. This gave me a strong left to do was to have someone to fly it. I found
eaten by the ‘carpet monster’ if they had flat copy, which once painted and installed, Preiser figures do a set of 1925 (#72 510)
been attached previously. I also made a point cannot be identified from the brass one. Some pilots and these were slightly modified to fit the
of doing a walk around inspection to check light weathering was achieved with a wash seats and hold the controls. ●
everything was done. I often find that making of Payne’s Grey oil paint. Having read a little

FINAL VERDICT
Roden are to be congratulated on their gamble with such a subject. They have done a very commendable job and with a little effort this model
can be made into a real show-stopper. The efforts of the modeller will be repaid once the rigging is installed and the accuracy is pretty close to the
published plans. This is not for the faint-hearted modeller who wants to build a kit in a weekend because you will need a weekend at least to rig
this one. With some small fit issues, which can be easily overcome, the final result is a thumbs up to Roden. At just over £25 it had me building for
several weeks and in that respect is worth every penny. I would recommend this to experienced modellers who have a couple of biplanes under
their belts.

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 NEW RELEASES / KITS

Danger Zone
Scale 1:48 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM, PE, R / Kit No.: 1192 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants & LSA Models
(UK Distribution) and Eduard stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £79.40

T
his is a special limited-edition from Eduard and we first assumed that the plastic in the box would be Academy, but no, this is the Hobby-
Boss kit in the box, excellent! On top of the mass of sprues for the base kit, you also get Brassin reins and etched updates for the exhaust
nozzles, seats and main and nose wheels. On top of this you also get photo-etched and die-cut self-adhesive masks. The kit needs no
introduction, as we built it in Issue 74, so we won’t list all the parts etc. again here. If you want to go even further, then don’t forget the
Brassin range offers AIM-54A Phoenix, AIM-9M/L Sidewinders and AIM-7M Sparrow missiles, plus Eduard do ‘Super Fabric’ seat belts and
RBF tags, as well as an etched ‘upgrade set’; yes, you really can go THAT far with this one and why not, the Tomcat deserves it.
The decals are by Furball Aero-Design and they offer five options: BuNo.162702, VF-84 Jolly Rogers, USS Theodore Roosevelt, 1989; BuNo.161271
(TARPS), VF-111 Sundowners, USS Carl Vinson, 1982; BuNo.161147 (TARPS), VF-31 Tomcatters, USS John F. Kennedy, 1984; BuNo.161144 (TARPS), VF-124
Gunfighters, NAS Miramar, 1983; BuNo.159634, VF-211 Fighting Checkmates, USS Constellation, 1976. The decals come on two sheets, the larger containing
most of the images and national insignia, with the smaller one containing a few more markings and all the stencils and walkways.

Reference
● Uncovering the Grumman F-14A/B/D Tomcat by D. Coremans (Daco Publications 2005 ISBN: 90-806747-6-1)

Verdict: A superb product, Eduard are to be congratulated in going for the ‘best’ in the scale, instead of just what is easily obtained because that it
keeping these special editions just that, ‘special’. The product is not cheap, but there is everything you will need in the box really to make a really
stunning Tomcat in 1:48 and we are delighted that Furball included a hi-vis scheme, although I personally wish it had been Sundowners, but that’s just
me! If you are only going to get one big update done this year, make it this one, as it is most highly recommended to all, and our thanks to Eduard M.A.
for the review sample.

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 Stríbrné šípy
Scale 1:48 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM, PE, R / Kit No.: 1187 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants & LSA Models
(UK Distribution) and Eduard stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £59.99

T
his is a special limited-edition reissue combining parts to allow the MiG-21PF, PFM or R to be built and the title ‘Stříbrné šípy’ means ‘Silver
arrows’. Inside the large box with the excellent box art, you will find all the sprues for a base MiG-21PF, along with those parts specific to
the PFM and R versions, each kit separately bagged, plus you also a fret of pre-painted photo-etched and a set of die-cut, self-adhesive
canopy and wheel masks for each. The bulk in the box though is a superb softback book all about the types in Czech service, lavishly illus-
trated with period images and lots of nice modern side profiles, but once again sadly all this information is only offered in Czech.
There are no fewer than 30 options via the huge decal sheet, but again the instructions are only in Czech, so here goes: MiG-21PF, ‘0301’,1st SLP, Czech
Budejovice, June/July 1971; MiG-21PF, ‘1215’, 1st SLP, 2nd Squadron, Czech Budejovice, mid-1968 to mid-1969; MiG-21PF, ‘1215’, 8th SLP, 3rd Squadron, Brno,
Spring 1989; MiG-21PF, ‘1214’, 1st SLP, 2nd Squadron, Czech Budejovice, mid-1969 to mid-1970; MiG-21PF, ‘1214’, 1st SLP, 2nd Squadron, Czech Budejovice,
mid-1969 to mid-1970; MiG-21PF, ‘1214’, 1st SLP, 2nd Squadron, Všechov, Tabor, June/July 1971; MiG-21PF, ‘0302’, 9th SLP, 2nd Squadron, Bechyně, 1986;
MiG-21PF, ‘0302’, 9th SLP, 2nd Squadron, Bechyně, 1986; MiG-21PF, ‘1303’, 11th SLP, 3rd Squadron, ŽATEC, 1968; MiG-21PF, ‘1304’, 8th SLP, 2nd Squadron,
Brno, Spring 1989; MiG-21PF, ‘1311’, 8th SLP, 2nd Squadron, Brno, 1988; MiG-21PFM, ‘5408’, 1st SLP, 3rd Squadron, Czech Budejovice, mid-1968 to mid-1969;
MiG-21PFM, ‘4608’, 1st SLP, 3rd Squadron, Czech Budejovice, mid-1969 to mid-1970; MiG-21PFM, ‘7207’, 11th SLP, 3rd Squadron, ŽATEC. 1987-1991; MiG-
21PFM, ‘4404’, 1st SLP, 3rd Squadron, Czech Budejovice, mid-1969 to mid-1970; MiG-21PFM, ‘4404’, 1st SLP, 3rd Squadron, Všechov, Tabor, June/July 1971;
MiG-21PFM, ‘4410’, 11th SLP, 3rd Squadron, ŽATEC, spring 1990; MiG-21PFM, ‘4411’, 11th SLP, 2nd Squadron, ŽATEC, ca. 1987-1991; MiG-21PFM, ‘5406’,
8th SLP, 1st Squadron, Brno, autumn 1987; MiG-21PFM, ‘8001’, 9th SLP, 3rd Squadron, Bechyně, 1968; MiG-21R, ‘1501’, 47th Pzlp, 1st Squadron, Pardubice,
ca. 1969-1975; MiG-21R, ‘1501’, 47th Pzlp, 1st Squadron, Pardubice, about 1976; MiG-21R, ‘1501’, Flight Test Department, Caslav, 1994; MiG-21R, ‘1502’, 3rd
Sbolp, 2nd Squadron, Malacky, Spring 1993; MiG-21R, ‘1625’ 28th Sbolp, 3rd Squadron, Caslav, Spring 1994; MiG-21R, ‘1701’ 28th Sbolp, 3rd Squadron, Caslav,
31st August 1993; MiG-21R, ‘1701’ 28th Sbolp, 3rd Squadron, Caslav, 31st August 1993; MiG-21R, ‘1922’, 47th Pzlp, 2nd Squadron, Hradec Králové, Summer
1992; MiG-21R, ‘2066’ 28th Sbolp, 3rd Squadron, Caslav, Spring 1994; MiG-21R, ‘1922’, 3rd Sbolp, 2nd Squadron, Malacky, Summer 1994. The massive A3
sheet of decals holds all the unique markings and there are two smaller additional sheets containing the stencils etc.

Reference
● MiG-21F, PF, PFM, PFM(SPS), R, SM, SMT, MF, bis, U & UM (4+ Publications 1991 ISBN: 80-9000-708-09)

Verdict: This is another superb product, beautifully presented and packed with information. For the money it would have been nice to actually get two or
three complete kits, but you can always obtain a PF/PFM or R in the Weekend Series and cross-kit it with the parts and decals here if you want to make
more than one of the options; which is probably very likely. Most highly recommended to all, and our thanks to Eduard M.A. for the review sample.

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První doma
Scale 1:48 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM, PE, R / Kit No.: 1189 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants & LSA Models (UK
Distribution) and Eduard stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £39.99

T
his is a special limited-edition reissue combining the ex-Gavia La-7 and the ex-Zvezda La-5 kits. The title ‘První doma’ means ‘First home’,
which is what this is all about, Czech pilots returning to their homeland. Inside the large box with the excellent box art (we like this style of
art), you will find all the sprues for each kit separately bagged, plus you also get Brassin wheels, a fret of pre-painted photo-etched and a
set of die-cut, self-adhesive canopy and wheel masks for each. The bulk in the box though is a superb softback book all about the men and
their machines, which is lavishly illustrated with period images and lots of nice modern side profiles, the only sad thing for most of us is that
it is Czech throughout (maybe Eduard can be convinced to translate it and offer the test translation as a download?). The instructions come in the
usual format but are printed in this instance as a booklet on high gloss paper, you also get a similar one for all 27 decal options!
Yes, 27 options, but again the instruction are only in Czech, so here’s an English version: La-5FN, flown by Lt Josef Stehlík, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri
Duby, 15th September 1944; La-5FN, flown by Staff Captain František Fajtl, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak. Fighter Regiment, 17th September 1944;
La-5FN, flown by Lt František Chábera, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Duby, 15th September 1944; La-5FN, flown by František Štička, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment,
Tri Doby, September-October 1944; La-5FN, flown by Ladislav Valoušek, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Duby, September-October 1944; La-5FN, flown by Tomás
Motycka, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Prague-Letňany, 1st June 1945; La-5FN, flown by Stanislav Hlučka, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Duby, September-October
1944; La-5FN, flown by Pavel Kocfelda, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, September-October 1944; La-5FN, flown by František Kruťa, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, 17 to
19 September 1944; La-5FN, 2nd MS. Fighter Regiment, Balice airport, May 1945; La-5FN, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Poremba airport, 26th April 1945; La-5FN,
Training Squadron 4, Piestany airport, 1947-1948; La-5FN, flown by Capt. L’udovít Koza, deputy commander of the 1st Czechoslovak. Fighter Regiment, Poremba
airport, April 1945; La-5FN, flown by Ondrej Kostík, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Poremba airport, April 1945; La-5FN, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Prague-Letňany, 1st
June 1945; La-5FN flown by Ján Setvák, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Poremba airport, April 1945; La-5FN, LP 2, Piestany airport, 26th February 1946; La-5FN,
Air Regiment 1, Piestany airport, 16th May, 1946; La-7, 1 MS. Mixed Division, Balice airport, Poland, end of April 1945; La-7, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Prague-
Letňany, 1st June 1945; La-7, Flight Regiment 1, Zvolen airport 1946; La-7 flown by Štefan Ocvirk, Air Regiment 2, Piestany airport, 24th April 1946; La-7, flown
by Ján Kaliský, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 1st Squadron, Tri Duby, 8th September 1947; La-5FN flown by Thomas Motyčka, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Duby end of
September up to 15th October 1944; La-5FN flown by František Vaculík, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Duby, September-October 1944; La-5FN flown by Leopold
Šrom, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Tri Doby, September-October 1944; La-5FN flown by Antonín Vendl, 1 MS. Fighter Regiment, Kubinka, June 1944. Apologies if
these are not in the order shown in the instructions, sadly Eduard do not list them as such on their website, nor include the tactical numbers for each option, so the
translation had to be ‘as is’.
Note: Tri Duby today is Sliač Airport in Slovakia

Reference
● Lavochkin’s Piston-engined Fighters by Y. Gordon, Red Star No.10 (Midland Publishing 2003 ISBN: 1-85780-151-2)

Verdict: A lovely product, beautifully presented and packed with information, sadly not for those of use who do not read/speak Czech though, but you
can’t have everything. Most highly recommended to all and our thanks to Eduard M.A. for the review sample.

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 Arado Ar 234B-2/B-2N
Scale 1:32 / Fly, Czech Republic / Materials: IM, R, PE / Kit No.: 32008 / Availability: Hannants (UK Importer)
and Fly stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £TBA

W
ell, this had to be the release at the IPMS/UK show in November, as it came right out of the blue. Inside the large box you will find the
typical tan-coloured plastic on four sprues and comprising 95 parts, along with a clear sprue of 12 parts. On top of this there are two
bags of resin parts, comprising 66 parts and a fret of etched brass containing another 63 parts. On top of this you will find two lengths
of material, one rubber hose and one thread and a length of tubing. In this nightfighter version it is good to see the radar antenna well
moulded and safely packed in a separate plastic bag. Surface detail is very fine, in fact in places too fine as it almost vanishes. The
clear parts are very good, having excellent clarity and well defined panel lines. Pretty much all the parts for the standard bomber are in the nightfighter
box should you want to build one. You do get the standard drop tanks and RATO bottles, the latter having the parachute units moulded in resin to give
excellent detail (the supplied thread is used on the lanyard for this). The wheel wells and most of the cockpit and radar operator’s bay are all in resin,
although some parts remain in plastic. None of the control surfaces are separate and the intake and exhaust on each engine is a separate resin part.
The wheels are in plastic, not resin, as are the oleo legs, but the compression linkages are resin. Things like the outer periscope element are in plas-
tic, while more complex things like the interior element are in resin, which makes sense considering the limitations of the moulding process. The final
large piece of resin in this version is the ventral gun pack.
The kit offers three B-2N and one B-2 decal options: W/Nr.140166, SM+FF, flown by Oblt Bonow and Ofw. Marchetti, Kommando Bonow, Oranienburg, 1945;
W/Nr.140145, SM+FE, flown by Hptm. Bisping and Hptm. Vogel, Kommando Bonow, Oranienburg, 1945; W/Nr.140344, T9+EH, flown by Oblt Erich K. Sommer,
Campoformido AB (Udine), Italy, April 1945 [all of these are B-2Ns]; B-2, W/Nr.14-173, F1+MT, 9./KG76, flown by
Hptm. Josef Regler, March 1945. All options are RLM 81/82 over 76, although the fourth option has large areas of
RLM sprayed over the upper camouflage to break it up. The decal sheet is produced by BOA and is superb, being in
perfect register, with excellent colours and nice glossy, clear carrier film. The sheet includes a full set of stencils and
individual instruments for the instrument panel! The swastikas are, as usual, split in two.

Dimensions 1:1 Dimensions 1:32

Span - 14.44m Span - 451.3mm
Length - 12.64m Length - 395mm
Height - 4.29m Height - 134.1mm

Reference
● Arado Ar 234 Blitz, Aero Detail No.16 (Dia Nippon Kaiga Co., Ltd 1996 ISBN: 4-499-22659-7)

Verdict: Lovely, at last to have an injected kit of the Ar 234 in this scale. Well done Fly.
Recommended to all experienced modellers (only due to the mix of mediums and lack of
locating pins etc.), and our thanks to Fly for the review sample.

SAAB JA 37 Viggen
Scale 1:48 / Tarangus, Sweden / Materials: IM /
Kit No.: TA4803 / Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and
Tarangus stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £64.99
pressor face to blank off the inside, but a long joint inside
the former will be difficult (as always) to eradicate. The air
brakes are separate, but none of the control surfaces are
separate from the wings or canards and all the various
lumps, bumps and bulges are separate, purely because of the need for
the main airframe to serve for a lot of variants. The canopy comes with
separate main sections to allow it to be modelled open or closed, which
is a nice touch and ensures both fit correctly.
The kit comes with three decal options and these are shown on a large

S
ome of you will have bought one of the early pre-production kits
like this one from Tarangus at the IPMS/UK show in November.
Inside the nice big box you will fine nine dark grey-coloured
sprues along with the solitary clear one. The first thing you will
notice, especially as you appreciate that the tooling was made
by MPM, is that the major parts have locating pins! Yes this is about as
mainstream as limited-run gets and so really the limited-run tag probably
only relates to production potential from the mould, not the quality of the
parts. The other things to note is that it’s all plastic, there is no resin and
no photo-etched, although we are sure updates are soon to follow from
the likes of Maestro Models and/or Eduard. Detail is excellent via fine en-
graved lines, about the only thing that struck us was the complex nature
of the parts breakdown. This is entirely due to wanting the most from the
tooling, as we suspect the
photo-recce and two-seater
versions will be along in the
future. This does mean that
you have to make up the mid/
rear and forward sec-
tion separately, then
mate them together.
The intakes have
long trunkings for
each, with the com-
A3-sized full colour sheet separate to the instructions. The only problem is
that none of them are identified in any way, which seems odd from a Swedish
firm? Basically you get one (Red 38) in the superb but dreadfully complex
splinter scheme, and two (Red or Black 49) in the two-tone grey scheme.
The inner spread of the colour instructions includes a complete diagram of
stencil placement, including those for the pylons, and we are glad to report
that the main colour diagram shows the complex splinter scheme as top, port
and starboard side views, so there is no doubt about demarcation between all
those colours. The decals themselves are nicely printed with perfect register
and colour and are of a satin finish with no visible areas of carrier film other
than inside the tactical numbers.
Dimensions 1:1 Dimensions 1:48
Span - 10.60m Span - 220.8mm
Length - 16.40m Length - 341.7mm
Height - 5.90m Height - 122.9mm
Reference
● Swedish Viggens: The Saab AJ/JA/SF/SH and SK 37 Viggen in Flygvapnet [Swedish Air
Force] Service by J. Jergensen, Post-war Combat Aircraft Series No.15 (AirDOC Publishing
2008 ISBN: 978-3-935687-15-7)
Verdict: Tarangus have gone with this, the last Viggen version, and it is a
really nice kit. We can all look forward to the AJ and SK versions before
too long, as those will appear under the Special Hobby label (no sign of
an SH or SF version though). Overall, although the sub-assembles may
cause some headaches, because of those locating pins it should be no
worse than on any other mainstream kit. Recommended to all, and our
thanks to Tarangus for the review sample.

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Siemens-Schuckert D.III
Scale 1:48 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM, PE / Kit No.: 8256 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants & LSA Models (UK
Distribution) and Eduard stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £19.50

N
ow a lot of us will recall Eduard’s first D.III released back in mid-1994, well this has absolutely nothing to do with that kit, this is an all-new
tooling using their most recent moulding technology. Inside the box you will find two dark grey-coloured sprues containing 78 parts and,
because this is a ProfiPACK kit, there is also a fret of etched brass of 79 parts, an acetate film for two styles of windshield and die-cut,
self-adhesive masks for the wheels. Detail overall is very good, with rib structure detail inside each fuselage half and all the interior ribs and
frames separate for the cockpit interior (which is built up on the lower wing). Some may find the ribs too pronounced, as they are all raised,
but then again you will be running decals along them anyway. The rear decking is separate, as it only applies to two of the decal options, and the guns
have etched perforated jackets and ring sights, which always looks great.
The kit offers five decal options: ‘Lo!’, flown by Lt E. Udet, Jasta 4, Metz, October 1918; s/No.1618/18, flown by Lt H. Dembowsky, Jasta 85 (Kest 5), Schaf-
fenhausen, November 1918; ‘White V’, Jasta 15, Chery-les-Pouilly, July 1918; S/No.1626/18, flown by Vzfw. Reimann, Kest 4b, September 1918; S/No.3025/18
based at Trier, December 1918/January 1919. The second option has lovely gold metallic markings that are superbly reproduced on the decal sheet, and you
also get pre-shaped lozenge fabric decals for all areas (along with a spare patch) and matching lengths for the rib tapes.

Reference
● Siemens-Shuckert D.III, Windsock Datafile No. 28 by
P.M. Grosz, (Albatros Productions 1998 ISBN: 0-948414-
33-2)

Verdict: A very neat kit that clearly shows

just how far Eduard has come in 20 years.
The quality of the moulding combined
with their expertise in etched makes this
a must for any WWI collection. Most highly
recommended, and our thanks to Eduard
M.A. for the review sample.

Folland Gnat T.1

Scale 1:48 / Airfix, UK / Materials: IM / Kit No.: A05123 / Availability: Hornby Hobbies
Ltd (Manufacturer) and Airfix stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £16.99

H
aving done the type in 1:72, most of us working in 1:48 were pretty pleased when it was
announced that Airfix intended to scale-up the little Gnat into 1:48, and here it is. In their
usual style box with its excellent box art, you will three grey-coloured sprues containing 89
parts and a single clear sprue of seven components. Detail is via sharply engraved panel
lines, but no rivets and this means some of the access hatches etc. lack their screw or
‘button’ latches. The cockpit is a tub, into which go the bulkhead, rudder pedals, instrument panel with
raised detail and decals, multi-part ejection seats that have the options of cushions with no belts so you
can use the figures, or with moulded belts when no figures are installed. The wheel wells are separate
inserts, as is each intake trunk, which leads to a blanking plate with compressor detail, so no see-
through effect to contend with either. Slats and flaps are separate, so they can be posed up or down
and Airfix have opted to include detail in the nose cone, so you can hinge up this area on the com-
pleted model. The rudder is separate and Airfix helpfully show the correct angle of both the tailplanes
(90º) and the main oleo legs (80º), which always helps clarify areas like this when building. The wing tip
lights are supplied as separate clear components, very nice, and unlike the 1:72 version, this time you
get the canopy either as one piece, or two, so that you can pose it open or closed.
The kit offers two decal options: XP500, No.4 FTS, RAF Valley, 1973 in the red/white/Light Aircraft Grey
scheme; XM709, Central Flying School, RAF Little Rissington, 1964 in the aluminium overall scheme with
fluorescent orange wing tips, nose and tail. The decal sheet is the usual type for Airfix, with the images having
a slight sheen but with visible areas of opaque carrier film visible inside things like the codes and serial num-
bers. A full set of stencils is included, along with decals for the instrument panels.

Dimensions 1:1 Dimensions 1:32

Span - 22ft 1in Span - 140.2mm
Length (excluding pitot) - 28ft 8in Length - 182.1mm
Height - 8ft 1in Height - 51.3mm

Reference
● Folland Gnat – Sabre-Slayer & Red Arrow by V. Bingham (J&KH Publishing 2000 ISBN: 1-900511-78-9)

Verdict: Even in this scale the Gnat is tiny, but with the type used by the likes of Finland, India and Yugoslavia, there is a lot of potential for schemes,
as well as modifications, so most of us won’t be adding just one to our collection because they won’t take up that much shelf space! Highly
recommended to all regardless of experience, and we can only hope this is the start of a 1950s-era jet fascination from Airfix.

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 Focke-Achgelis Fa 330
‘Captured German Gyroglider’
Scale 1:32 / Fly, CZ / Materials: IM, R, PE / Kit No.: 32009
/ Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and Fly stockists
worldwide / Price Guide: £21.50
• New tooling
• 42 tan-coloured plastic plus one acetate film, 12 resin and 44 etched brass
components
• Four decal options: All captured and one in RAF and another in French
markings, but with no other details on the instructions or rear of the box
(where the colour and marking instructions are printed), plus T2-4617 and
T2-4618, both captured and evaluated in the USA in the immediate post-war
period. The decals are well printed and offer the national markings and code
numbers (where applicable), the ‘Nicht anfassen’ stencils and the red/white/
blue tricolour for the tail of the French option.
Verdict: Fly are certainly racking up the unusual Luftwaffe and RAF
subjects in 1:32, what with the Bachem Natter and Hafner Rotachute,
not to mention their superb new Ar 234 in this scale (see elsewhere
in this edition). The moulding is good, the detail parts (by Hauler) and
decals (by Cartograf) excellent, so this one can be recommended to
all experienced modellers.
Reference
● Helicopters of the Third Reich by S. Coates & J.C. Carbonel (Classic Publications 2003
ISBN: 1-903223-24-5)
Eurofighter EF2000
Typhoon single seater
Scale 1:72 / Italeri, Italy / Materials: IM / Kit No.: 1355 /
Availability: The Hobby Company Ltd (UK Importer) and
Italeri stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £14.99
• Reissue of kit first released in 1994
• 74 grey-coloured and 2 clear plastic components
• Eight decal options: 37-01 of 37º Stormo, 18º Gruppo, Trapani-Birgi AB,
Italy, 2014; 4-9 of 4º Stormo, 9º Gruppo, Grosseto AB, Italy, 2014; 38-33
of 12º Gruppo, Gioia del Colle AB, Bari, Italy, 2014; ZJ927, No.3 Sqn, RAF
Coningsby, deployed to Gioia del Colle AB, Italy for Libya air campaign in 2011;
30+63, JG-74, Schleswig AB, Germany, 2014; 14-01, Ala 14, Fuerza Aerea
Española, Albacete AB, Spain, 2014; 7L-WD, Österreichische Luftstreitkräfte,
Zeltweg AB, Austria, 2014; ‘1008’ of the Royal Saudi Air Force, Riyadh King
Khaled AB, Saudi Arabia, 2014. The decal sheet is printed in Italy and is
superb with glossy images, limited carrier film and a mass of stencils.
Verdict: The base kit is old and easily surpassed nowadays, but the decal
sheet is superb and with so many options you have to wonder if it is
worth buying the kit for that alone! Recommended for the decals, and our
thanks to The Hobby Company Ltd for the review sample.
Reference
● Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon by M. Ovcacik & K. Susa (Mark I Ltd/4+ Publications 2009,
ISBN: 978-80-86637-18-1)
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Dornier Do 215B-5
Scale 1:48 / ICM, Ukraine / Materials: IM /
Kit No.: 48242 / Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and
ICM stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £24.99
• Revised tooling based on the B-4 released in 2013
• 183 grey-coloured and 10 clear plastic components
• Two decal options: R4+DC of Stab II./NJG2, Leeuwaren, Spring 1942;
R4+SN, flown by Oblt P. Gildner, II./NJG2, Giltze-Rijen, autumn 1941. Option
1 is RLM 74/75 over 76, whilst option 2 is black overall. The decals include
one set of crosses, and a full set of stencils, but no swastikas.
Verdict: Andy showed us all how well the basic Do 215B kit from ICM
builds, with his article on the B-4 version in Issue 112, so this revised
version should go together just as well. Highly recommended to all
Luftwaffe modellers, and our thanks to ICM for the review sample.
Reference
● Dornier Do 17E-Z & Do 215B by M. Griehl: The Flying Pencil in Luftwaffe Service, WWII
Combat Aircraft Photo Archive No.3 (AirDOC 2006 ISBN: 3-935687-42-7)
Supermarine Walrus Mk I
‘Air Sea Rescue’
Scale 1:48 / Special Hobby, CZ / Materials: IM, R, PE / Kit
No.: SH48163 / Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and
Special Hobby stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £35.40
• Limited edition (500 worldwide) reissue of ex-Classic Airframes kit first
released in 2006
• 66 grey-coloured and four clear plastic plus 75 resin and 58 etched brass
components
• Two decal options: W2757, ZE•O of No.293 (ASR) Sqn, RAF Pornigliano,
Italy, 1944; X9056, •C, No.293 (ASR) Sqn, RAF Detachment Nettuno airfield,
Italy, 1944. Along with the unique markings there is a full set of stencils on a
separate sheet.
Verdict: Having been originally made by MPM for Classic Airframes, it
is good to see this kit back once again, and in three different boxings
(see next month) as well! The quality of the product is good, this being
the 2nd tooling of the type done by MPM, and the asking price not bad
considering what is in the box. Highly recommended to experienced
modellers, and our thanks to Special Hobby for the review sample.
Reference
● Supermarine Walrus & Stranraer by J. Knightly & R. Wallsgrove, Yellow Series No.6113
(Mushroom Model Publications 2004 ISBN: 83-917178-9-5)
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Nachtjäger Armstrong-Whitworth

Scale 1:48 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM, PE / Whitley Mk I/II
Kit No.: 8177 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants Scale 1:72 / Fly, CZ / Materials: IM, R / Kit No.: 72004 /
& LSA Models (UK Distribution) and Eduard stockists Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and Fly stockists
worldwide / Price Guide: £27.80 worldwide / Price Guide: £TBA
• Revised tooling, based on A-8 first released in 2006
• Revised tooling based on Mk V kit released in 2011
• 170 dark grey coloured and four clear plastic plus 162 photo-etched brass
• 70 tan-coloured and 36 clear plastic plus 37 resin components
components plus a set of self-adhesive canopy and wheel masks
• Four decal options: K7219, IO•D, No.10 Sqn, RAF Dishforth, 1938; K7200,
• Four decal options: A-8/R11, ‘White 9’, flown by Ofw. G. Migge, 1./NJG10.
78•V, No.78 Sqn, RAF Dishforth, early 1938; K7229, OF•A, No.97 Sqn,
Werneuchen, 1944; A-6/R11, W/Nr.550143, ‘White 11’, flown by Oblt F.
RAF Abingdon, early 1940; K7233, 51•P, serving with both Nos.9 and 51
Krause, 1./NJG10, Werneuchen, Germany, January 1944; A-6/R11, ‘Black
Squadrons, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, 1938. The decals are well printed with large
8’, II./JG300, Lobnitz, Autumn 1943; A-7/R11, ‘Yellow 1’, flown by Lt K.
clear glossy areas of carrier between the large codes and letters; no stencils
Bretschneider, 6./JG300, Rheine, March 1944. The decals include swastikas
are included.
(where allowed by law) and there is a separate sheet of stencils.

Verdict: Originally announced as #8187 back in 2012 it is good to Verdict: Libor’s article in Issue 83 showed that the basic kit although
have this ‘missing’ version available at last, especially as it covers sound, is not that easy to build. This revised tooling is well moulded, but
all the nightfighter versions, not just the A-8/R11 [N.B. with the beware the generic nature of the instructions, which cover Mk I/II and III
additional purchase of an A-8 Weekend Edition kit, there are enough kits, as they show the ventral ‘dustbin’ turret installed, but only the Mk
specific parts and decals left over to make the A-6 or A-7 versions]. III actually had this fitted (the Mk I and II had the fittings to take it, but
The basic kit has some dimensional issues, but overall it is still never had the actual turret installed). Recommended to all experienced
worth building and therefore is highly recommended to all Luftwaffe modellers, and our thanks to Fly for the review sample.
modeller. Our thanks to Eduard M.A. for the review sample. Reference
● Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley by K. Wixey, Warpaint Series No.21 (Hall Park Books Ltd 1999)
Reference
● The Focke-Wulf Fw
190, Radial-engine
versions (including Fw
190A, B, C, F, G & S): A
Guide to the Luftwaffe’s
Butcher Bird, Airframe
& Miniature No.7 by
Richard A. Franks
(Valiant Wings
Publishing 2014 ISBN:
978-0-9575866-4-2)

McDD F-15E Strike Eagle Hispano HA.1112 M-1L

& bombs
Scale 1:48 / Revell, Germany / Materials: IM / Kit No.: 04891
/ Availability: Revell [UK Branch] (UK Distribution) and Revell
stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £26.99
• Reissue of kit first released in 2000
• 217 grey-coloured and seven clear plastic components
• Two decal options: S/No.87-0169, 391st FS, 366th FW. Mountain Home
AFB; S/No.89-0474, 336th FS, 4th TFW, Seymour Johnson AFB, display team
2011. The decal sheet is printed in Italy and although the images are in register
there are still opaque areas of matt carrier film visible; the sheet does include
extensive stencils.
Verdict: The basic kit has been around a while now, being tooled in
China back in 2000 when first released by Revell, then in 2001 under
the Monogram ‘Pro-Modeler’ brand. Detail is excellent, as shown by the
200+ parts count, and you get AN/AAQ-13 and AN/AAQ-14 pods as well
as GBU-10 and GBU-15 LGBs and AIM-9L and AIM-210B missiles. Highly
recommended to all, and our thanks to Revell [UK Branch] for the review
sample.
Reference
● The Modern Eagle Guide: The F-15 Eagle/F-15E Strike Eagle Exposed by J. Melampy (Reid
Air Publications 2008)
Buchón ‘Movie Star
Scale 1:72 / Special Hobby, CZ / Materials: IM, PE, R / Kit
No.: SH72308/ Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and
Special Hobby stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £12.99
• New tooling
• 61 grey-coloured and one clear plastic, six resin, 32 photo-etched and two
acetate components
• Three decal options: ‘Yellow 15’ and ‘Red 10’ both in fictional Luftwaffe
markings for the 1969 Battle of Britain film, and ‘MI•T’ pretending to be
a Hurricane, also in the 1969 BofB film. The decal sheet includes all the
unique markings, national insignia and a few small stencils, and although the
swastikas are included, they are split vertically in two.
Verdict: We reviewed the ‘Ejército del Aire’ version last month, so bought
this one so you can see the movie decal options included in it. It, like the
previous kit, is superb and thus highly recommended to all.
Reference
● HA.1112-M1L ‘Buchon’ by P.M.P. Magan, Monografico Aereo No.1 (Monografico Aéreos
1996 ISBN: 84-921179-07)

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 Lavochkin La-7
Scale 1:72 / Eduard, CZ / Materials: IM /
Kit No.: 7425 / Availability: Creative Models, Hannants
& LSA Models (UK Distribution) and Eduard stockists
worldwide / Price Guide: £9.50
• Reissue in this simplified Weekend Edition series of kit first released in
2004
• 59 dark grey coloured and six clear plastic components plus a set of self-
adhesive ‘fabric’ seat belts
• Two decal options: ‘White 14’, flown by Maj. A.V. Aelyukhin, 9th GIAP, VVS,
1945; ‘White 12’, flown by Lt Col. F.M. Kosolapov, 937th IAP/322nd IAD,
Prague-Kbely airfield, Czechoslovakia, May 1945
Verdict: We really like the new design for the Weekend Edition boxes,
very appealing, and we also like the inclusion of the superb self-
adhesive ‘fabric’ seat belts, that is a real plus for the series and it
really does make these a lot easier to make without the need to add
anything. Highly recommended to all, regardless of experience, and
our thanks to Eduard M.A. for the review sample.
Reference
● Lavochkin’s Piston-engined Fighters by Y. Gordon, Red Star No.10 (Midland Publishing
2003 ISBN: 1-85780-151-2)
Fiat G.91 P.A.N. preserie
Scale 1:48 / Italeri, Italy / Materials: IM /
Kit No.: 2740 / Availability: The Hobby Company Ltd (UK
Importer) and Italeri stockists worldwide /
Price Guide: £24.99
• Reissue of Esci kit first released in 1979
• 61 blue-coloured and three clear plastic components
• The decals offer markings for any of the ten aircraft operated by Frecce
Tricolori during the 1964 to 1981 period. The decal sheet is printed in Italy
and is superb with glossy images, limited carrier film and even decals for the
instrument panel and side consoles.
Verdict: What a let down, we all thought this would be the Ocidental kit
going by the ‘Upgraded Moulds’ claim, but to find a 40+ year old kit with
limited detail and raised panel lines, yipes! Really only worth the decals
and then not at £25, so sorry not one we can see having many takers.
Our thanks to The Hobby Company Ltd for the review sample.
Reference
● Fiat G.91/G-91R/G.91PAN by P. Waldis & M. de Bortoli, Ad Astra No.1 (MisterKit 2003)
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Scale 1:72 / Fly, CZ / Materials: IM, R /
Kit No.: 72005 / Availability: Hannants (UK Importer) and Fly
stockists worldwide / Price Guide: £TBA
• Revised tooling based on Mk V kit released in 2011
• 70 tan-coloured and 36 clear plastic plus 37 resin components
• Four decal options: K9013, ZG•X, No.10 OTU, RAF Abingdon, 1940;
K8956, 102•X, No.102 Sqn, RAF Driffield, late 1938; K8957, TQ•S, No.102
Sqn, RAF Driffield, 1939; K8985, DY•J, No.102 Sqn, RAF Driffield, 1939. The
decals are well printed with large clear glossy areas of carrier between the
large codes and letters; no stencils are included.
Verdict: The original Mk VII was not that easy to build, as Libor’s
article in Issue 83 showed, but with patience this has got to be a
better option that the old Frog kit, surely? It is good to see the type
covered at last, as the Mk I/II/III were first announced back in 2011
and with this version it is also good to see the ventral ‘dustbin’ turret
correctly installed, as the Mk III was the only one to actually have it
fitted. Recommended to all experienced modellers, and our thanks to
Fly for the review sample.
Reference
● Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley by K. Wixey, Warpaint Series No.21 (Hall Park Books Ltd
1999)
Dassault Mirage 2000D
Scale 1:72 / Revell, Germany / Materials: IM /
Kit No.: 04893 / Availability: Revell [UK Branch] (UK
Distribution) and Revell stockists worldwide /
Price Guide: £13.50
• Reissue of ex-Italeri kit first released in 1993
• 70 grey-coloured and four clear plastic components
• Two decal options: 133-IV of EC 01.003 Navarre, 62nd Escadrille, French
Air Force, Nancy AB, 2014; 3-XJ, EC 03.003 Ardennes, 2nd Escadrille,
French Air Force, Nacy AB, 2014. The decal sheet is printed in Italy and has
good colour and register but features areas of matt opaque carrier film visible
around most markings.
Verdict: This is a pretty old kit now, although thankfully with engraved
detail, and it is interesting to note it is now four times the price it was
when first released in 1993; how times change. Probably the best bet in
town for the type in the scale, so recommended in the knowledge that it
is lacking in detail in comparison with more modern kits. Our thanks to
Revell [UK Branch] for the review sample.
Reference
● French Deltas, The Dassault Mirage 2000 Over Europe, AirDoc Post-WWII Combat Aircraft
Series No.11
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EDUARD, CZECH REPUBLIC

[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Photo-Etched 1:72 Series

72-583 72-584
Sunderland Mk III Bomb Racks / Italeri / Price Guide: £18.40 Sunderland Mk III Surface Panels / Italeri / Price Guide: £19.50

72-585 72-586 72-588

Sunderland Mk III Exterior Detail Set / Italeri / Sunderland Mk III Maintenance C-47 Landing Flaps / Airfix / Price Guide: £18.40
Price Guide: £13.99 Platforms / Italeri / Price Guide: £30.60

73-022 73-023 73-024 73-025

Seat Belts, Luftwaffe Fighters WWII - Super Seat Belts, USAAF & USN WWII - Super Seat Belts, IJN - Super Fabric / Various / Seat Belts, RAF, Early - Super Fabric /
Fabric / Various / Price Guide: £3.30 Fabric / Various / Price Guide: £3.30 Price Guide: £3.30 Various / Price Guide: £3.30

73-026 73-027 73-028

Seat Belts, RAF, Late - Super Fabric / Various / Seat Belts, RFC WWI - Super Fabric / Various / Seat Belts, France WWI - Super Fabric /
Price Guide: £3.30 Price Guide: £3.30 Various/ Price Guide: £3.30

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[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models

73-503 73-509 73-510

F-35A Detail Set [PP/SA] / Academy / Price Guide: £12.99 Su-27SM Detail Set [PP/SA] / Zvezda / Sunderland Mk III Interior Detail Set [PP/SA] / Italeri /
Price Guide: £13.99 Price Guide: £16.70

73-511 73-513 73-514

Fiat CR.32 Detail Set [PP/SA] / Italeri / Price Guide: £16.70 C-47 Interior Detail Set [PP/SA] / Airfix / C-47 Cargo Seat Belts [PP] / Airfix / Price Guide: £7.20
Price Guide: £16.70

Photo-Etched 1:48 Series

48-807 48-809 48-812

A-6A Exterior Detail Set / HobbyBoss / F-101A/C Exterior Detail Set / Kitty Hawk Models / Price Guide: £18.40 Tornado IDS Exterior Detail Set / Revell / Price Guide: £18.40
Price Guide: £18.40

48-814
A-6E Exterior /
HobbyBoss /
Price Guide: £18.40

48-815
Tornado IDS Ladder /
Revell /
Price Guide: £9.50
48-816
Do 215B Undercarriage / ICM / Price Guide: £10.99

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EDUARD, CZECH REPUBLIC

[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Photo-Etched 1:48 Series

48-817 48-818 48-819

F-14A Upgrade Set / Eduard/HobbyBoss / Do 215B Bomb Bay / ICM / Do 215B Landing Flaps / ICM / Price Guide: £16.70
Price Guide: £18.40 Price Guide: £10.99

48-820 48-821
EMB-314 Super Tucano Exterior Detail Set / HobbyBoss / Price Guide: £18.40 Su-30M-2 Exterior Detail Set / Academy / Price Guide: £18.40

48-823 49-069 49-681

La-5FN Upgrade Set / Eduard/Zvezda / Price Guide: £10.99 F-14A Seat Belts - Super Fabric / Various / Price Guide: £7.20 F-101A/C Interior Detail Set
[PP/SA] / Kitty Hawk Models /
Price Guide: £18.40
49-683
A-6A Interior Detail Set
[PP/SA] / HobbyBoss /
Price Guide: £18.40

49-686
Tornado IDS Interior 49-687
Detail Set [PP/SA] / Tornado IDS Undercarriage [PP] / Revell / Price Guide: £16.70
Revell / Price Guide:
£16.70

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[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Photo-Etched 1:48 Series

49-688 49-689 49-690

Tornado IDS Seat Belts [PP] / Revell / Price Guide: £8.40 A-6E Interior Detail Set [PP/SA] / HobbyBoss / EMB-314 Super Tucano Detail Set [PP/SA] / HobbyBoss /
Price Guide: £18.40 Price Guide: £16.70

49-691 49-693 49-694

Do 215B Detail Set [PP/SA] / ICM / Price Guide: £18.40 F-14 RBF Tags - Super Fabric / Su-30M-2 Interior Detail Set [PP/SA] / Academy / Price Guide: £18.40
Eduard/HobbyBoss /
Price Guide: £8.40

Photo-Etched 1:32 Series

32-353 32-356 32-357

A-6A Exterior Detail Set / HobbyBoss / A-1H Exterior Detail Set / Trumpeter / A-1H Engine Detail Set / Trumpeter / Price Guide: £13.99
Price Guide: £19.50 Price Guide: £22.25

32-359 32-361
A-6A Undercarriage / Trumpeter / Price Guide: £16.70 P-51K Wing Armament Detail Set [PP] / Dragon / Price Guide: £12.80

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EDUARD, CZECH REPUBLIC

[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Photo-Etched 1:32 Series

32-362 32-363
P-51K Exterior Detail Set / Dragon / Price Guide: £18.40 F-104C Exterior Detail Set / Italeri / Price Guide: £13.99

32-812
A-1H Interior Detail Set
[PP/SA] / Trumpeter /
Price Guide: £16.70

32-819
F-104C Interior Detail Set
[PP/SA] / Italeri /
Price Guide: £18.40

32-821
P-51K Interior
Detail Set [PP/
SA] / Dragon
/ Price Guide:
£18.40 32-824
F-104C Seat Belts
[PP/SA] / Italeri /
Price Guide: £10.99

Big ED series
We can’t show you all the photo-etched in these sets, as they would take up pages on their own. Visit the Eduard website where images of the frets and instructions are available.

BIG 7287 BIG 7288 BIG 49107

Fw 200C PBM-5/PBM-5A MiG-25PD/PDS
Trumpeter Minicraft Kitty Hawk Models
Price Guide: £35.60 Price Guide: £49.99 Price Guide: £54.60
Includes: 72-579 Includes: 72-576 Exterior; Includes: 48-797 Exterior
Exterior; 72-580 72-581 Bomb Bay; 73- Detail Set; 48-808 Air
Landing Flaps; 73-498 499 Interior Detail Set [PP/ Intakes & FOD; 49-669
Interior Detail Set [PP/ SA]; 73-504 Seat Belts Interior Detail Set [PP/
SA]; CX384 Canopy & [PP]; CX382 Canopy & SA]; 49-680 R-40 Missile
Wheel Masks Wheel Masks Detail Set [PP]; EX416
Canopy & Wheel Masks

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[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Big ED series
BIG 49108 BIG 3340 BIG 3341
Su-2 Spitfire Mk II Meteor F.4
Zvezda Revell HK Models
Price Guide: £42.99 Price Guide: £39.99 Price Guide: £33.40
Includes: 48-805 Includes: 32-350 Includes: 32-358
Exterior Detail Set; 48- Landing Flaps; 32-360 Exterior Detail Set;
806 Landing Flaps; 49- Exterior Detail Set; 32- 32-804 Interior Detail
678 Interior Detail Set 818 Interior Detail Set Set [PP/SA]; 32-816
[PP/SA]; EX420 Canopy [PP/SA]; JX168 Canopy Seat Belts [PP]; JX169
& Wheel Masks & Wheel Masks Canopy & Wheel Masks

Express Masks
Each set of masks includes those for the canopy as well as any other glazed sections and all the wheels (main, tail and/or nose). They are die-cut Kabuki tape.

1:72 CX375 1:72 CX395 1:72 CX396 1:72 CX397 1:72 CX398
MiG-15 Su-35 Sunderland Mk III AH-1 Blenheim Mk I
Eduard ‘Weekend Edition’ Zvezda Italeri Special Hobby Airfix
Price Guide: £3.30 Price Guide: £5.60 Price Guide: £9.50 Price Guide: £4.50 Price Guide: £7.20

1:72 CX399 1:72 CX400 1:72 CX401 1:48 EX428 1:48 EX432
F-35 F-15C MSIP II C-47 Tornado IDS F-101A/C
Hasegawa Academy Airfix Revell Kitty Hawk Models
Price Guide: £5.99 Price Guide: £5.60 Price Guide: £7.20 Price Guide: £8.40 Price Guide: £5.99

1:48 EX433 1:48 EX434 1:48 EX435 1:48 EX436 1:48 EX437
Jaguar T.2/T.4 Do 215B A-6E EMB-314 Super Tucano Su-30M-2
Kitty Hawk Models ICM HobbyBoss HobbyBoss Academy
Price Guide: £8.40 Price Guide: £8.40 Price Guide: £5.99 Price Guide: £5.99 Price Guide: £7.20

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EDUARD, CZECH REPUBLIC

[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Express Masks

1:48 EX439 1:32 JX167 1:32 JX170 1:32 JX171 1:32 JX172
Bf 109E-1/E-3 T-2 Buckeye A-1H X-15A T-33
Eduard Special Hobby Trumpeter Special Hobby Special Hobby
Price Guide: £4.50 Price Guide: £8.40 Price Guide: £7.20 Price Guide: £4.50 Price Guide: £5.99

1:32 JX173 1:32 JX174

P-51K F-104C
Dragon Italeri
Price Guide: £4.50 Price Guide: £8.40

Brassin 1:72 Series

672 037 672 038 672 039 672 040

AIM-9M/L Sidewinder x4 [R/PE] / US 250lb Bombs x6 [R/PE] / Various / US 500lb Bombs x6 [R/PE] / Various / F-16CJ Block 50 Wheels [R/Ma] /
Various / Price Guide: £5.60 Price Guide: £7.20 Price Guide: £7.20 Tamiya / Price Guide: £4.50

672 043 672 044 672 045

AIM-9D Sidewinder x4 [R/PE] / Various / Price Guide: £5.60 AGM-45 Shrike x4 [R/PE/Dec] / Various / Price Guide: £7.20 F-16CJ Block 50 Exhaust Nozzle [R/PE] /
Tamiya / Price Guide: £7.20

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[www.eduard.com] / Available in the UK from: Creative Models, Hannants and LSA Models
Brassin 1:72 Series Brassin 1:48 Series
648 144
MiG-21PF
Interior [R/PE] /
Eduard / Price
Guide: £19.50

672 046 672 047

C-47 Wheels [R/Ma] / Airfix / Price F-16CJ Block 50 Ejection Seat [R/PE] /
Guide: £4.50 Tamiya / Price Guide: £4.50

648 145 648 146 648 150 648 156

MiG-21PF Ejection Seat [R/PE] / MiG-21PF/PFM/R Airbrakes [R] / Fw 190 Wheels - Late [R/Ma] / Eduard / AIM-9D Sidewinder x4 [R/PE] / Various /
Eduard / Price Guide: £10.99 Eduard / Price Guide: £5.60 Price Guide: £4.50 Price Guide: £7.20

648 159 648 163 648 164 648 165

Tornado IDS Wheels [R/Ma] / Revell / AGM-12B Bullpup A x4 [R/Dec] / AGM-12C Bullpup B x4 [R/Dec] / AGM-45 Shrike x4 [R/PE/Dec] /
Price Guide: £4.50 Various / Price Guide: £8.40 Various / Price Guide: £8.40 Various / Price Guide: £8.40

Brassin 1:32 Series

632 039
F4U-1 Cockpit [R/PE] /
Tamiya / Price Guide: £30.60

648 173
UB-16 Rocket Launchers x2 [R/PE] /
Various / Price Guide: £5.60

Verdict: Each month Eduard produces a superb selection of new products, right across their entire range, and this month is no different. The
quality of all products, in all mediums, is superb and they will greatly enhance any kit to which they are added. Highly recommended to all
but the complete novice. Our thanks to Eduard M.A. for the review samples.

Available from: www.eduard.com

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SCALE AIRCRAFT CONVERSIONS, USA

[www.scaleaircraftconversions.com] / Available in the UK from: LSA Models

1:72 72095 1:72 72096 1:48 48270

C-123 Provider Landing Gear Mirage III/V Landing Gear Panavia Tornado Landing Gear
Designed for: Roden kits Designed for: PJ Production kits Designed for: Revell kit
Material: WM Material: WM Material: WM
Price Guide: £10.50 ($13.95) Price Guide: £10.50 ($13.95) Price Guide: £12.70 ($16.95)

1:48 48271 1:48 48272 1:48 48273

Sea Harrier FA.2 Landing Gear F-106A Delta Dagger Landing Gear McDD F-4C/D/J Phantom Landing Gear
Designed for: Kinetic kit Designed for: Trumpeter kit Designed for: Revell-Monogram kit
Material: WM Material: WM Material: WM
Price Guide: £12.70 ($16.95) Price Guide: £13.50 ($17.95) Price Guide: £12.70 ($16.95)

1:32 32088 1:32 32089 1:24 24008

Fokker D.VII Landing Gear & Struts F4F Wildcat Landing Gear Hawker Typhoon Mk Ib Gear & Struts
Designed for: Wingnut Wings kit Designed for: Trumpeter kit Designed for: Airfix kit
Material: WM Material: WM Material: WM
Price Guide: £13.50 ($17.95) Price Guide: £14.20 ($18.95) Price Guide: £14.99 ($19.95)

Verdict: All the above sets are offered as direct replacements for the kit parts, but with more detail and, where appropriate, correcting any
errors. The whole range is distributed in the UK by LSA Models, and our thanks to Scale Aircraft Conversions for the review samples.

Available from: www.scaleaircraftconversions.com

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LIFELIKE DECALS, JAPAN

[http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~lifelike/] Available in the UK from: Hannants

In Issue 112 we featured a series of new sheets for the Fokker D.VII in both 1:48 and 1:32 from Lifelike, well they have discovered a
few errors crept in, so they have issued the following corrections:

48-043 Fokker D.VII Part 4

• D.VII (Fokker) flown by Vzfw W. Gabriel of Jasta
11, Beugneix airfield, late June 1918 - the bands
on this option should be orange, not yellow

48-044 Fokker D.VII Part 5

• D.VII (OAW), flown by Lt R. Windisch, Jasta 66, Norman-le-
Wast airfield, late May 1918 - The stag motif on this option
should be white

32-018 Fokker D.VII Part 3

• D.VII (Fokker) flown by Vzfw W. Gabriel of Jasta 11, Beugneix
airfield, late June 1918 - the bands on this option should be
orange, not yellow

32-019 Fokker D.VII Part 4

• D.VII (OAW), flown by Lt R. Windisch, Jasta 66,
Norman-le-Wast airfield, late May 1918 - The stag
motif on this option should be white

Verdict: Well done to Lifelike for so quickly spotting the errors and making the corrections available. All current stocks will include the
corrections. If you managed to obtain a sheet without the corrections, then contact the retailer from where you bought it to obtain the
correction sheets relevant to the sheet you have. Our thanks to Lifelike Decals for so promptly pointing out these corrections.

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 NEW RELEASES / MATERIALS & TOOLS

IWATA & MEDEA

Available worldwide from: The Airbrush Company Ltd

● CL-100 - Airbrush Cleaning Kit

This set contains the following

• 3x extra small cleaning brushes
• 50x pipe cleaners
• Pack of 12 Artool cleaning wipes; for both
your airbrush and work surface
• 1oz bottle of Medea airbrush cleaning fluid
• Medea SuperLube (silicone free)
• Nozzle wrench
• LED magnifier with 30x or 60x magnification
• Cleaning instruction leaflet
• Plastic storage case with clip lock and
hanging eyelet
Note: You can also get a refill set (#IWCL-
150 £8.00) that contains the instructions,
wipes, cleaning brushes, pipe cleaners and
Medea airbrush cleaning fluid
Price Guide: £22.50

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 ● CL-200 - Airbrush Cleaning Mat

This is a neat mat, which has a raised lip

all the way around so that your airbrush
parts don’t roll off the work surface! The
rubberised material also means that the
smaller parts such as the fluid tip are far
less likely to ‘bounce’ off and onto the
floor (“been there, done that!”). The unit
is flexible and a large 294mm x 268mm
format means that it gives a large enough
working area, plus the non-slip backing is
just that; we tried pushing it along a work
surface and it just won’t budge!
Price Guide: £19.50

● Special Offer - Note that The Airbrush Company has a limited number
● I-6360-16 - 360º
of crown caps (RRP £6.35) for the Neo CN or BCN airbrush to give away
Nozzle Airbrush Cleaner
with the purchase of a CN or BCN airbrush. This cap allows better fluid
Spray
flow when working close to a subject or at low pressure, and a limited
This 545ml (16oz) number are available, so this offer applies only whilst stocks last.
spray bottle allows 360º
application of the cleaning
fluid in either a continual
solid stream or as a fine
mist. It is not just for the
airbrush though, as it can
be used to clean down the
working area or any other
surfaces with overspray
(such as the extractor
booth or work bench)
Note: You can also buy
the Airbrush Cleaner fluid
in standard bottles in 4oz
[118ml - £3.50], 8oz [227ml
- £5.50], 16oz [545ml -
£10.00] and 32oz [907ml
- £15.50] sizes
Price Guide: £14.00

Verdict: These are all excellent tools that are essentials on your workbench if you use an airbrush. The cleaning kit is a neat and compact
way to ensure you have the right stuff to clean down the airbrush after each session, with the option to add any other items that you may
regularly use should you want to have it as a ‘fly away’ set. The cleaning mat is a must, as it is just so useful that once you have it, you will
wonder how you survived before! Highly recommended to all, and our thanks to The Airbrush Company for the review samples.

● Samples for review

Please send all items for review to the following address:
Model Airplane International, Doolittle Mill, Doolittle Lane, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire, LU6 1QX, United Kingdom.
Companies in the European Union should also add our VAT number, which is GB 789 7020 84

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 Books
Samples for review
Please send all items for review to the following address:
Model Airplane International, Doolittle Mill, Doolittle Lane,
Totternhoe, Bedfordshire, LU6 1QX, United Kingdom.
Companies in the European Union should also add our VAT
number, which is GB 789 7020 84

Forgotten Aerodromes of World War I

by M. Chorlton / Crécy Publishing / ISBN: 978-0-85979-1816-6 / Price
Guide: £24.950/$39.95 / 272-page, hardback / English

T
The author has collected together a series of images covering all of
the airfields used in the England, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Isle of
Wight, Isle of Scilly, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This deals
with military aerodromes as well as seaplane, flying-boat and airship
stations up to 1920. The coverage is broken down into counties within
England, starting with, oddly, Bedfordshire (were there no such bases in Avon?)
and going through to Worcestershire. All the other regions are purely done by
aerodrome name in alphabetic order. Sadly none of the aerodrome names are
linked to pages, as these pages could have been a very useful index, instead
you have to know the name of the place then go to the official index in the back
of the title. The first picture on p22 is very poignant for me, as it is a look over
the balloon sheds to Nos.1 and 2 airship hangers at Cardington; I worked in the
former in the 1990s and now everything in the foreground is gone, it’s all houses
today, but at least the airship hangars have preservation orders on them (for
now!). Most of the sites listed are shown as period maps or with period images,
but not everything is included, probably because some locations have no known
photos. The little narrative for each includes OS map references and it charts
the history of the aerodrome from its beginning until closure, or in a few cases,
up to the present day.

VERDICT: AN INTERESTING TITLE THAT YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF CONSTANTLY THUMBING THROUGH TO
LOOK FOR AERODROMES NEAR LOCATIONS WHERE YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY LIVED. OUR THANKS TO CRÉCY
FOR THE REVIEW SAMPLE.

Thanks to/Worldwide Distribution: Crécy Publishing

www.crecy.co.uk

Thunder over the Reich:

Flying the Luftwaffe’s HE 162
Jet Fighter
by W. Wollenweber / Hikoki Publications / ISBN: 978-1-9021093-
9-8 / Price Guide: £29.95/$49.95 / 184-page, hardback / English

T
his book tells the story of Wolfgand Wollenweber, who as a
lieutenant in the Luftwaffe initially flew the Bf 110 over Russia
from 1943, but ended up flying the He 162 in the last months of
the war and may well have undertaken the very last Luftwaffe
sortie in 1945. After flying the Bf 110 on escort and ground-
attack missions in Russia and as the war situation worsened for Nazi
Germany, he volunteered for home defence duties and found himself
being trained to fly the Me 163 Komet, before finally being moved across
to fly the He 162. The account is very vivid and extremely personal, from
someone who was there and it should dispel a few myths about the type,
although it also supports most of our views on the final months of Nazi
Germany and the Luftwaffe. The title is not heavily illustrated, but there
are a few personal images that have not been seen before of the He
162 and some of the machines Wollenweber flew are also depicted in
modern colour side profiles.

VERDICT: A FASCINATING READ, AND ONE THAT ALTHOUGH NOT DESIGNED FOR MODELLERS,
SHOULD BE IN THE LIBRARY OF ANY SERIOUS STUDENT OF LUFTWAFFE OPERATIONS IN WWII. OUR
THANKS TO CRÉCY FOR THE REVIEW SAMPLE.

Thanks to/Worldwide Distribution: Crécy Publishing

www.crecy.co.uk

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 AVAILABLE
FROM ADH PUBLISHING...

www.adhpublishing.com/shop
Junkers Ju 52 A History: 1930-45
by R. Forsyth & E.J. Creek/ Classic Publications / ISBN:
978-1-90653-746-3 / Price Guide: £60.00/$99.95 / 330-page,
hardback / English

T
his is the first title from the Classic Publications brand
since it became part of Crécy. The format is much the
same as previously with a highly detailed account of the
development and use of the Ju 52, both as an airliner and
with the military. The narrative combines a wealth of period
images with some nice modern colour sides profiles and starts with
a look at Hugo Junkers and his love of ‘metal’ aircraft designs. The
coverage then charts the creation of the single-engined Ju 52/1m,
with lots of nice detail shots of the airframe in all guises; wheels,
floats & skis. Then coverage moves to the three-engined Ju 52/3m,
again with masses of detail period images. Coverage of airline
operation of the /3m comes next with a huge selection of both detail
and overall images of these aircraft, combined with a number of
modern colour side profiles. In this section you even get details like
images of the floats being built, or the BMW liquid-cooled engine
that was test-fitted in some Ju 53/3ms. The next large section
looks at the use of the type as a bomber by the Luftwaffe and this
includes such gems as clear diagrams and photos of the ventral
www.adhpublishing.com/shop
gun ‘dustbin’ and a mass of Spanish Civil War images and colour
profiles. The use of the type for paratroop dropping comes next and
this one has a few detail images, but most are overall shots and it
is followed by a similar section looking at the use of the type in the
transport role. This section has loads of images, not just of things
like the gun installation, but of the various loads, glider towing and
the operations in support of troops in Russia, again all with some
nice colour profiles. The eighth chapter looks at the type’s use as
an air ambulance and this is followed by a section that looks at the
seaplane Ju 52/3m See, including nice detail photos and diagrams of
the floats. Chapter ten deals with the minesweeping role undertaken
by the Ju 52/3m MS and this is followed by a chapter that looks
at the use of the type as a test-bed or a flying classroom. Chapter
twelve covers courier and Staffel transport duties, while chapter
thirteen looks at the evolution of the design as the Ju 252 and Ju
352. Chapter fourteen looks at operations in the 1943 to 45 period,
with a day-by-day account of operations from 15th February 1945
to the end of the conflict and beyond. This section also deals with
captured examples, as well those used by BEA in the immediate
post-war era.

VERDICT: A SUPERB BOOK, WELL UP TO THE HIGH STANDARD WE EXPECT FROM CLASSIC.
IT IS A REAL MUST FOR ALL SERIOUS LUFTWAFFE FANS, ALTHOUGH THE HIGH RRP MAY PUT
MANY OFF, AND I AM SURE OUR AMERICAN READERS WILL WINCE AT THE PROSPECT OF A $100
TITLE! OUR THANKS TO CRÉCY FOR THE REVIEW SAMPLE. www.adhpublishing.com/shop
Thanks to/Worldwide Distribution: Crécy Publishing
www.crecy.co.uk
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 EVENTS DIARY
Model shows for 2014 and into 2015
January 4th
Aviation & Model Collectors
Fair at the Hallmark Hotel,
Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey,
CR9 4LT. For more details
contact Acebell Aviation, Email:
acebellaviation@aol.com or
Tel:01737 822200
February 15th
North Devon Model Show at
Fremington Village Hall, Higher
Road, Femington, Barnstaple,
Devon, EX31 3BG. For more
details contact Steve Macey,
Email: stevemacey@me.com or
Tel: 07703003719.
March 7th
Madcity Modelers Model
Show at Doubledays, 4586
Baxter Rd., Cottage Grove, WI
53527, USA. For more details
contact Rob Teubert, Email:
roblawnking@yahoo.com or
Tel: 608-295-9258
March 21st & 22nd
Southern Expo at Hornchurch
Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge
Park, Hornchurch Road,
Hornchurch, Essex, RM11
1JU. For more details contact
Peter Bagshaw, Email:
SouthernExpo@tiscali.co.uk or
Tel: 01708 726102.
April 4th
Phantom Phlashers Phantom
Phurball at the Anniston City
Meeting Center, 1615 Noble
Street, Anniston, AL 36201,
USA. For more details contact
William Nichols, Email:
vette1701@gmail.com or
Tel: 205-616-5499
May 10th
IPMS Gloucester Model Show at
Churchdown Community Centre,
Parton Road, Churchdown,
Gloucestershire, GL3 2JH. For more
details contact Alan Firbank, Tel:
01452 864315 (9am to 5pm dailyor
weekend) or Email: afirbank@
aol.com or Jeff Brown, Tel 01285
659254 (evenings after 7:30pm) or
Email: gundylunch@sky.com
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February 7th
Mid-Michigan Model Makers
31st Annual Contest & Show
at the Knights of Columbus
Hall, 360 S. River (M-13), Bay
City, MI 48707, USA. For more
details contact Jim Church,
Email: jecdiamond3@aol.com
February 21st
Fleet Air Arm Museum Model
Show at the FAA Museum,
RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset,
BA22 8HT. For more details
contact 01935 840565 or visit
www.fleetairarm.com
March 14th
Lo-Co Con (The Low Country
Contest) at R.B. Stall
High School, 3625 Ashley
Phosphate Road, North
Charleston, SC 29418, USA.
For more details contact Dave
Corvino, Email: dcorvino@
sc.rr.com or
Tel: 843-330-2764.
March 21st
12th Annual Contest and Show
at Five Lakes Center, #1 Center
Drive, Fairmont, MN 53246,
USA. For more details contact
Dan Bauer, Email:
cinderjoe@hotmail.com or
Tel:507-822-3938.
April 4th
MosquitoCon 24 at Wayne PAL,
1 PAL Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470,
USA. For more details contact
Martin Quinn,
Email: martinquinn@aol.com
or Tel: 973-304-0380.
July 18th
North Somerset Model Show
2015 at The Helicopter
Museum, Weston Heliport,
Locking Moor Road, Weston-
super-Mare, Somerset, BS24
8PP. For more details contact
Fred Tooke, 15 Priory Road,
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset,
BS23 3HU or Email:
fredtooke@freenetname.co.uk
February 7th
18th Annual Hope It Don’t
Snow Show at the Ramada
Hotel & Convention Center,
1517 16th St. SW, Rochester,
MN 55902, USA. For more
details contact Chris Krco,
Email:
zvsm533@gmail.com
February 21st
ModelFiesta XXXIV at the
San Antonio Event Center,
8111 Meadow Leaf Dr., San
Antonio, TX 78227, USA. For
more details contact Tom
Sprawls, Email: president@
alamosquadron.com
Tel: 210-414-4319.
March 14th
KC CON 2015 at the First
Church of the Nazarene,
11811 State Line Road,
Kansas City, M0 64114, USA.
For more details contact Stuart
Malone, Email:
stuartmalone@icloud.com or
Tel:816-560-8282
March 21st
Tricon 2015 at the A.W.
Beattie Career Center, 9600
Babcock Blvd, Allison Park, PA
15101, USA. For more details
contact Scott Scariot, Email:
Trekmanscott@outlook.com or
Tel:412-492-8378
April 12th
Shropshire Scale Model Show
at the RAF Museum Cosford,
Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11
8UP (www.rafmuseum.org.
uk/cosford). For more details
contact Gary Stevens,
Email: gary473@btinternet.
com or visit
http://shropmodels.org.uk
September 26th & 27th
eDay at Galerie Butovice,
Prague, Czech Republic. For
more details visit www.eday.cz
February 7th
JAXCON 2015 at the UNF
University Center, 12000
Alumni Dr., Jacksonville, FL
32224, USA. For more details
contact Gil Hodges,
Email: slowhandshodges@
bellsouth.net
February 21st
BLIZZCON - 2015 at Aladdin
Shrine, 3850 Stelzer Road,
Columbus, OH 43219, USA.
For more details contact
Graham Holmes, Email:
IPMSColumbusContest@gmail.
com or
Tel: 614-379-BLIZ (2549).
March 14th
Atlanta Model Con 2015 at
IAMAW Local 709 Union Hall,
1032 South Marietta Pkwy,
Marietta, GA 30062, USA.
For more details contact Bill
Johnston, Email:
bjinga1952@gmail.com
Tel: 678-308-7308.
March 28th
Great South Tigerfest XXII
at St. Jerome Knights Of
Columbus Hall, 3310 Florida
Ave., Kenner, LA 70064, USA.
For more details contact
Richard Marriott, Email:
rmpaintingmusic14@gmail.
com or Tel:504 737-9514.
April 18th
Poole Vikings Annual Show at
Parkstone Grammar School,
Sopers Lane, Poole. For more
details contact Jim Smith,
Tel: 01202 695129, Email:
james_smith49@sky.com
or visit www.winkton.net/
poolevikings.htm
November 7th & 8th
Scale ModelWorld 2015 at
Telford International Centre,
Telford, Shropshire, TF3 4JH.
February 15th
Huddersfield Show at Huddersfield
Sports Centre, Southgate,
Huddersfield, HD1 1TW. For more
information contact Geoff Milnes
on 0113 2893152, 0787 9446554
or email huddersfieldshow@
gmail.com, Alan Paul on
0781 1358355 or visit www.
huddersfieldmodelshow.co.uk
February 28th
Old Dominion Open at the
Richmond International
Raceway, 600 East Laburnum
Ave., Richmond, VA, USA. For
more details contact Chazz
Klanian, Email:
csklanian@verzion.net or
Tel:804-794-8020.
March 14th
RiverCon IV at Clarion Hotel,
1419 East 70th St., Shreveport,
LA 70115, USA. For more
details contact Andy Bloom,
Email:
bloom4him@hotmail.com or
Tel:318-294-2414
March 28th
Omahacon 2015 at the
Strategic Air and Space
Museum, 28210 W. Park Hwy,
Ashland, NE 68003, USA. For
more details contact Scott
Hackney, Email:
scott.hackney@cox.net or
Tel: 402-861-1999
April 26th
ModelKraft 2015 at
Stantonbury Leisure Centre,
Milton Keynes, MK14 6BN.
For more details contact Tim
Upson-Smith,
Email: tupsonsmith@live.co.uk
or visit www.mksmc.co.uk
08/12/2014 11:51
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Contact details for companies featured in MAI this month...

The Airbrush Company Ltd Eduard M.A. ICM Holding Roden Ltd
79 Marlborough Road, 170 Obrnice, Borispolskaya 9, Building 64, 7a Nevska Str., Of. 35,
Lancing Business Park, Obrnice, Kiev 02099, Kiev 03062,
Lancing, 435 21, Ukraine Ukraine
West Sussex Czech Republic Tel/Fax: (+380 44) 369 54 12 Tel/Fax: +380 (44) 4565404
BN15 8UF Tel: 420 35 6 11 81 86 Email: icm@icm.ua Email: roden@roden.eu
Tel: +44 (0)1903 767800 Fax: 420 35 6 11 81 71 http:/www.roden.eu
Fax: +44 (0)1903 875960 Email: info@eduard.cz Italeri S.p.A
www.airbrushes.com Via Pradazzo 6/B, Scale Aircraft Conversions
Fly I-40012 Calderara di Reno, 3795 Shady Hill Drive,
Airfix Dablova kolonie 814, (Bologna), Dallas,
Hornby Hobbies Ltd 73553 Dolní Lutyne, Italy TX 75229,
Westwood Industrial Estate, Czech Republic Tel: +39 051 72 60 37 USA.
Margate, www.fly814.com Fax: +39 051 72 64 59 Tel: (214) 477 7163
Kent Email: italeri@italeri.com Email: sacmactexas@aol.com
CT9 4JX Hannants www.scaleaircraftconversions.com
Tel: +44 (0)1843 233500 Harbour Road, Lifelike Decals
Fax: +44 (0)1843 233513 Oulton Broad, 2-8-7-202 Kameari, Special Hobby Ltd
www.airfix.com Lowestoft, Katsushika, Mezilesi 718,
Suffolk Tokoyo 125-0061, Prague 9 193 00,
Classic Publications NR32 3LZ Japan Czech Republic
**See Crécy Publishing** Tel: 01502 517444 Fax: +81 3 5680 6733 www.cmkkits.com
Fax: 01502 500521 Email: lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp
Creative Models Ltd www.hannants.co.uk http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~lifelike/ Tamiya Inc.
Unit 6/10, Honeysome Road Industrial 3-7, Ondawara,
Estate, Hasegawa Corporation LSA Models Shizuoka-City,
Honeysome Road, 3-1-2 Yagusu Yaizu, 151 Sackville Road, Japan
Chatteris, Shizuoka 425-8711, Hove, www.tamiya.com
Cambridgeshire Japan East Sussex BN3 3HD
PE16 6TG Tel: 81 54 6 28 82 41 Tel/Fax: 01273 705420 Tarangus Models
Tel: +44 (0)1354 760022 Fax: 81 54 6 27 80 46 Email: lsamodels@mcmail.com Box 2006,
Fax: +44 (0)1354 760037 SE-169 02 Solna,
Email: info@creativemodels.co.uk Hikoki Publications Revell GmbH Sweden
www.creativemodels.co.uk **See Crécy Publishing** Unit 10, Old Airfield Industrial Estate, Tel: +46 8 825206
Cheddington Lane, Email: sales@tarangus.com
Crécy Publishing HobbyBoss Tring www.tarangus.com
Unit 1a, Ringway Trading Estate, www.hobbyboss.com HP23 4QR
Shadowmoss Road, Tel: 0845-459-0747
Wythenshawe, The Hobby Company Limited Fax: 01296-660041
Manchester Garforth Place, Email: ukbranch@revell.de
M22 5LH Knowlhill, www.revell.de/en
Tel: 0161 499 0024 Milton Keynes
Fax: 0161 499 0298 MK5 8PH Revell GmbH & Co., KG
Email: enquiries@crecy.co.uk Tel: 01908 605 686 Abteilung X,
Fax: 01908 605 666 Henschelstr 20-30,
Email: sales@hobbyco.net D-32257 Bünde,
or enquiries@hobbyco.net Germany
www.hobbyco.net

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 NEWSLINE
News - Just Released
The below lists UK kit releases since our last edition.
Manufacturer Scale Item # Type Decription Price

Eduard 1:144 4441 IM Mikoyan MiG-15 ‘Dual Combo’ £13.99

Eduard 1:48 8236 IM/PE Mikoyan MiG-21PF £33.99

Eduard 1:48 8492 IM Fokker Dr.I Triplane ‘Weekend Edition’ £11.30

Hasegawa 1:200 10808 IM Boeing KC-767 ‘World Tanker Combo’ (2x kits) £36.99

Hasegawa 1:200 10809 IM Boeing E-4B ‘Advanced Airborne Command Post’ £32.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02112 IM Mitsubishi G4M2 Type 1 Attack Bomber (Betty) Model 22 ‘Ryu Unit’ £32.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02113 IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 & Junkers Ju 88G-1 ‘Mistel 2’ £54.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02114 IM Consolidated F-7A Liberator ‘20th Combat Mapping Squadron’ £55.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02116 IM Panavia Tornado GR.4 ‘No.12 Squadron Farewell Special’ £34.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02117 IM Mitsubishi F-2A ‘Prototype No.1 Special Marking’ £29.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02118 IM Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum ‘Ukrainian Air Force’ £29.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02119 IM McDD F-15E Strike Eagle ‘Tiger Meet 2005’ £32.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02120 IM Boeing B-47E Stratojet ‘Air Research and Development Command’ £39.99

Hasegawa 1:72 02121 IM Boeing-Bell CV-22B Osprey ‘JASDF’ £32.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07382 IM Nakajima Ki-44-II Hei Shoki (Tojo) ‘246th Flight Regiment’ £29.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07383 IM Mitsubishi F1M2 Type Zero (Pete) Observation Seaplane £32.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07384 IM McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18A Hornet ‘NASA’ £59.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07385 IM Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Fighter Type 52 ‘Taiho Fighter Group’ £29.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07386 IM Nakajima Ki-84 Type 4 Fighter Hayate ‘Fengtian (Mukden) Defence’ £29.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07387 IM Hughes OH-6D ‘Last Sky Hornets JGSDF Aviation School Team’ £32.99

Hasegawa 1:48 07388 IM Lockheed F-22 Raptor ‘Prototype’ £59.99

Hasegawa 1:32 08237 IM Messerschmitt Me 262 ‘V056 Nachtjäger Prototype’ £49.99

Revell 1:72 04894 IM McDD F/A-18C Hornet (ex-Italeri) £13.50

Revell 1:48 04996 IM Sepecat Jaguar GR.1A (ex-Heller) £22.99

Revell 1:32 04906 IM MBB Bö 105 ‘Fly Out Painting’ £9.99

Revell 1:24 04905 IM Bell UH-1B (ex-Monogram) £26.99

Revell 1:72 04998 IM Canadair CL-415 Water Bomber (ex-Heller) £26.99

Stoppel Kits 1:72 697227 IM Kramme & Zeuthen KZ-VII ‘Laerke’ (Lark) ‘RDAF’ £22.99

Stoppel Kits 1:72 697271 IM Kramme & Zeuthen KZ-VII ‘Laerke’ (Lark) ‘on floats and skis’ £22.99

Stoppel Kits 1:72 697272 IM Kramme & Zeuthen KZ-VII ‘Laerke’ (Lark) ‘civil’ £22.99

Stoppel Kits 1:72 697273 IM Kramme & Zeuthen KZ-VII ‘Laerke’ (Lark) ‘civil’ £22.99

Stoppel Kits 1:72 697274 IM Kramme & Zeuthen KZ-VII ‘Laerke’ (Lark) ‘civil’ £22.99

Sword 1:72 72085 IM/R Arado Ar-196A-3 £14.99

Sword 1:72 72086 IM/R Reggiane Re 2002bis (ultima serie) £13.99

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 Key NT - New Tooling, RE - Reissue, with or without new decals, RT - Revised Tooling, IM - Injection Moulded Plastic, including Limited Run,
PE - Photo-Etched Brass, R - Resin, RB - Rubber, VF - Vac-formed PLastic, WM - White-metal including Bronze and Pewter

News - Coming Soon

Manufacturer Scale Item # Type Decription
AZ Model 1:72 7474 IM Saiman 200 ‘Italian AF, USAAF’ (ex-Jach)
AZ Model 1:72 7475 IM Saiman 200 Croatian, Yugoslav & Italian (ex-Jach)
Cyber-Hobby 1:200 2018 IM Tupolev Tu-142MZ
Cyber-Hobby 1:48 5560 IM Messerschmitt Bf 110E-2 Trop
Gallery Models 1:48 64105 IM Sikorsky VH-34D ‘Marine One’
Hasegawa None 60506 IM CV-22B Osprey US Air Force ‘Eggplane’
Hasegawa 1:72 02115 IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-11/13 Combo (2x kits)
Hasegawa 1:72 02123 IM Grumman F-14A Tomcat ‘Miss Molly’
Hasegawa 1:72 02124 IM Kawasaki Ki-48-II Otsu (Lily) ‘8th Flight Regiment’
Hasegawa 1:72 02125 IM Kawasaki T-4 ‘Blue Impulse 2014’ (2x kits)
Hasegawa 1:72 02131 IM McDD F-15J Eagle ‘JASDF 60th Anniversary’
Hasegawa 1:72 35201 IM Russian Aircraft Weapons Set
Hasegawa 1:48 X72-15 IM European Aircraft Weapons Set
Hasegawa 1:48 07389 IM Kawasaki Ki-45 Kai Hei ‘27th Flight Regiment’
Hasegawa 1:48 07390 IM Grumman EA-18G Growler ‘VAQ-130 Zappers’
Hornet 1:144 071 R FMA IA-58 Pucara
Kitty Hawk Models 1:48 80123 IM Bell UH-1Y
Kitty Hawk Models 1:48 80124 IM Bell AH-1Z
Kitty Hawk Models 1:48 80130 IM McDonnell F2H-3/4 Banshee
Revell 1:144 03968 IM Airbus A320 ‘Eithad’ (Due 04/2015)
Revell 1:144 04086 IM MiG-31 Foxhound (Due 04/2015)
Revell 1:72 03967 IM MiG-21F-13 (Due 02/2015)
Revell 1:72 04326 IM H.P Victor K.2 (Due 02/2015)
Revell 1:72 04877 IM Douglas C-54 Skymaster (Due 04/2015)
Revell 1:72 04940 IM UH-60 Transport Helicopter (Due 01/2015)
Revell 1:48 04926 IM AC-47 Gunship (Due 03/2015)
Revell 1:48 04943 IM Bell AH-1W Super Cobra (Due 03/2015)
Revell 1:32 04869 IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-8 (Due 03/2015)
Revell 1:32 04922 IM Arado Ar 196B-1 (Due 02/2015)
Special Hobby 1:72 72250 IM Northrop N-3PB ‘No.330 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF’
Special Hobby 1:72 72293 IM IAR-38
Special Hobby 1:72 72295 IM Lockheed C-60 Lodestar ‘Pacific Transport’
Special Hobby 1:72 72299 IM Northrop N-3PB ‘Little Norway’
Special Hobby 1:72 72307 IM Caproni Ca.311
Special Hobby 1:48 48135 IM/R/PE Grumman AF-2S Guardian ‘Submarine Killer’
Special Hobby 1:48 48158 IM/R/PE Grumman AF-2W Guardian ‘Submarine Hunter’
Special Hobby 1:32 32049 IM/R/PE Hawker Tempest Mk V
Special Hobby 1:32 32052 IM/R/PE Hawker Tempest Mk V ‘Hi-Tech’
Special Hobby 1:32 32054 IM/R/PE Hawker Tempest Mk II
Special Hobby 1:32 32055 IM/R/PE Hawker Tempest Mk VI
Valom 1:72 72055 IM Bristol Bombay Type 130
Wingnut Wings 1:32 32050 IM/PE Felixstowe F.2A ‘Early’
Wingnut Wings 1:32 32066 IM/PE Felixstowe F.2A ‘Late’
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Dornier Do 335A-1 Pfeil
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 ‘Basic’
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-4 ‘Super Wings Series’
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5/6/7 ‘Basic’
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 ‘Super Wings Series’
Zoukei-Mura 1:32 TBA IM Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 ‘Super Wings Series’

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• Revell 1:72nd Junkers Ju 88C-6Z/N • Azur 1:72 MS.406C.1 • Minicraft 1:144 KC-135E • AZ Model 1:72 Fw 190D-11
• HobbyBoss 1:72 Pe-2 • HobbyBoss 1:48 F-80A • Trumpeter 1:48 Vampire FB Mk 5 • Airfix 1:48 Javelin
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• Minicraft 1:72 PBM-5A • Special Hobby 1:48 Airspeed Oxford • Eduard 1:72 MiG-15bis w/Big SIN resin set
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