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  1. Alpha Jet 50th Anniversary (03810) 1:144 Carrera Revell At the end of the 60s, with the SEPECAT Jaguar project transformed from a trainer into an attack aircraft, it left the advanced jet trainer replacement unfulfilled, so France and Germany began a collaboration to design a new trainer that was to become the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet, the Breguet part in the collaboration being absorbed by Dassault when they bought the company. It flew late in 1973, and went into service with France in 1979 after extensive trials as the Alpha Jet E, fulfilling a similar role to the BAe Hawk in the RAF. The Germans used the jet as a Light Attack aircraft with the A suffix, and limited export success brought the Alpha Jet to Francophile countries in Europe and Africa, with a number of ex-Luftwaffe aircraft finding their way to Thailand, Morocco, and Portugal. One of Britain's defence company QinetiQ bought 6 ex-Luftwaffe aircraft, which occasionally make appearances at airshows. Germany has retired the aircraft now, but many airframes are still in service elsewhere, with the later MS2 fitted with new avionics, engines, a glass cockpit and improved weapons carrying performance used to train pilots on modern types. Civilian operators are currently receiving support from dedicated companies that have been set up with this purpose in mind, providing upgrades, repair and maintenance service, helping to keep the remaining airframes in the air for the enjoyment of spectators at airshows and in use as adversary trainers around the world. The Kit This boxed set first hit the shelves in 1993 in the old Revell blue boxes as a single kit, while this box has three identical kits in the box, each one comprising two small sprues, a clear sprue, shared decal sheet, instruction booklet and an A3 poster of the box art minus all but an unobtrusive Revell logo in the bottom right corner. The total sprue count is six in grey and three in clear, with a surprising level of detail visible on the exterior, and a basic two-seat cockpit inside. Firstly, bear in mind that each kit is identical, so we will look at one set of sprues and you should imagine doing everything three times over. Construction begins with the cockpit, which is a single part that has ejector seats and control columns moulded-in, with enough detail to be suitable for the task when painted and viewed through the canopy. The main gear bay former is slipped into the lower portion of the fuselage halves as they are glued together, adding 5g of nose-weight before gluing them together. The intakes are made from splitter plates and trunks that are joined and applied to the fuselage sides, with single part exhausts added behind, fitting the elevators on flat spots either side of the tail, which would benefit from pins to strengthen the join. The belly insert covers a blank spot under the fuselage, adding an additional fairing between the engine nacelles for the German version, and closing the forward half of the nose gear bay with a door that opens and closes only during take-off and landing, or for maintenance. The wings are each single parts that attach to the fuselage using traditional slot and tab, adding optional strakes and arrestor hook under the tail of the German variant. The German Alpha Jet carries two tanks with stabilising fins under the wings, consisting of two halves and a separate pylon that mounts on a pair of pins under the wings. Germany also had a probe on the nose of the aircraft, while other variants had a simple cone instead. The main gear struts are each a single part that are well-moulded, and have separate wheels added, fixing them at the rear of the bay openings on a wedge-shaped tab, which is shown more clearly in a scrap diagram. The small bay door is fitted to the top edge of the bay, and the blank interior of the bays will probably never be seen again, which is a good thing, as they have an ejector-pin mark in the centre on each side. The nose gear has the wheel moulded into the strut, and the bay is further enclosed by fixing an L-shaped door to the rear of the bay. The last parts are wedge-shaped actuator fairings under the wings, two on each side. Markings There are three decal options on the sheet, and for a change you can build all of them from the box, which is nice. Alpha Jet A, Cottesmore, UK, June 7th 1996 Alpha Jet E, Fairford, UK, July 16th 2007 Alpha Jet E, Florennes, Belgium, June 15th 2017 Decals are by Cartograf, which is a guarantee of good registration, sharpness and colour density, with a thin gloss carrier film cut close to the printed areas. Conclusion I was prepared to smile politely and describe an old, clunky kit, but was pleasantly surprised to see the quality of the sprues in the box. If you’re an Alpha Jet lover and don’t have the space for larger kits, you can get a quick fix within this box, building three kits and decals for different operators. Highly recommended. Carrera Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit or
  2. German Tank Crew at Work (35285) 1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Tanks despite looking cool demand a lot of hard work from their crews to work well. This is as true now as it was during WWII. This new set from Miniart shows a crew performing maintenance on their tank (well apart from the Officer taking a drink, so thats not changed either!). It arrives in a standard end-opening box, with three sprues of grey styrene inside plus a small sheet of PE as well as an instruction sheet and sprue guide. The painting and main construction diagrams are printed on the rear of the box, with colours called out in a large number of brands of paint for your ease. From the box you can build five figures, each having separate arms, legs head and torso, plus two caps. Three soldiers are cleaning the barrel, while a is holding some sort of tool. What appears to be an offer its taking a drink. There is a small sprue with two buckets on it, and an accessory sprue which provides various tools and tool boxes, the PE fret provides the doors for the open tool box and additional tools. The painting guide covers Vallejo, Mr. Color, LifeColor, Tamiya, Testors, AK Real Color, Humbrol, Revell, and Mission Models, with the names of the colours given in English and Ukrainian. Additional painted renditions of the accessories are also included for your use. Conclusion MiniArt's figures are excellent, and these figures can be used to give your Panzer a little human scale. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
  3. German Tank Crew Afrika Korps (35278) 1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Deserts are hot. It is known. What's also known is that metal when exposed to copious quantities of strong sunlight also gets hot, which makes crewing tanks quite unpleasant unless it is fitted with air conditioning. During WWII these niceties weren't available, so crews got hot and had no choice in the matter. This figure set from MiniArt contains a group of Afrika Korps tank crew that are stripped down to their shorts while performing maintenance on their vehicle. It arrives in a standard end-opening box, with three sprues of grey styrene inside plus a small instruction sheet and sprue guide. The painting and main construction diagrams are printed on the rear of the box, with colours called out in a large number of brands of paint for your ease. From the box you can build five figures, each having separate arms, legs head and torso, plus two caps and three pith helmets for you to insert your own joke into. They are all wearing shorts and canvas topped boots barring one rather louche gentleman who is wearing open-toed slippers whilst changing over the muzzle of the coaxial machine gun, seated on the mantlet. Two soldiers are cleaning the barrel, while a chap with a bandaged hand watches, presumably on light duties due to his ailment. The final character is exiting or entering the turret side hatch, holding onto it for balance. Sculpting is excellent, and all figures are sporting six-packs from their efforts in the desert and general lack of excessive supplied. The accessory sprue provides two Kar98s and MP40s, bayonets, a pistol and flare pistol, plus holsters in the open and closed positions, along with first aid kit, map case, binoculars and ammo pouches to personalise the crew or diorama with. The painting guide covers Vallejo, Mr. Color, LifeColor, Tamiya, Testors, AK Real Color, Humbrol, Revell, and Mission Models, with the names of the colours given in English and Ukrainian. Additional painted renditions of the accessories are also included for your use. Conclusion MiniArt's figures are excellent, and these gentlemen can be used to give your Panzer III or Panzer IV a little human scale, just make sure your flesh painting is up to snuff, as there's plenty on display. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
  4. Russian T-34/85 Berlin 1945 Number 183 Factory 1:35 Academy The T-34 was Stalin's mainstay medium tank that was produced in incredible volume by extremely crude methods, and thrown into the fray against the numerically inferior German tanks on the Eastern Front. The designers combined a number of important advances in design such as sloped frontal armour, wide tracks to spread the load, and the ability to cope with the harsh Russian winters without grinding to a halt, which was a problem that affected the Germans badly after the successes in the summer of Operation Barbarossa. The part count and cost of the tank was continuously reduced during production, with plants turning out up to 1,300 per month at the height of WWII. The initial welded turret was replaced by a cast turret with more room, and the 76mm gun was replaced by a more powerful 85mm main gun, giving even the Tiger pause for thought. The 1945 model /85 had a number of upgrades over previous editions, with electrically powered turret traverse, smoke canister system, and squared off fenders. Crews often added in-the-field modifications such as the famous bed-spring armour, where they burned mattresses and attached the remaining metal springs to the armour to pre-detonate the German Panzerfaust, thereby weakening the effect of the weapon's shaped charge. Bed frames were also used, as they had a heavy-gauge mesh that usually supported the mattress on top. The Kit This edition of the kit has been launched as a special edition that includes bed-frame armour, and features specific to Factory 183 (UTZ) facility at Nizhniy Tagil, where it was made. It isn't an amazingly high-tech tooling with all the bells and whistles, but it is a solid kit of the T-34/85 and doesn't indulge in over-complication of parts in order to add extra miniscule detail. It arrives in a pleasantly simple box with a side-view of the subject, and an overall white theme that seems to be their new look for armour kits. Inside are sixteen sprues in Academy's familiar green/grey styrene, two more sprues in black styrene, a sheet of Photo-Etch (PE) brass for the bed-frame armour, a small decal sheet, instruction booklet, and lastly the painting guide with sprue diagrams on the rear. As usual with many armour kits, you'll have a number of parts left on the sprues after construction, as some of the sprues are multi-purpose. The build isn't complex, as already mentioned, and begins with the construction of the lower hull from a floor panel and sponson sides with overhangs. To these are added the suspension arms in their shafts, and you'll need to take care to ensure the enclosures are sloped in the correct directions. A central bulkhead adds a little strength to the assembly, as does the rear bulkhead, after which the suspension swing-arms are added to their mounting holes. The wheels are made up in pairs with separate hub-caps, and have rubber road tyres moulded in. Some later T-34s were fitted with sprung road-wheels to save strategically important rubber stocks, but having seen some pictures of the decal options provided with the kit, these plain hubs with large bolted rims would seem to be correct. The drive sprockets and idler wheels build up in the same way, and all are added to the stub axles ready to accept the tracks. The tracks provided in the kit are link and length, with the long top and bottom runs moulded as one part, while the sections wrapping around the ends of the run are individual links, giving a realistic look without the work involved in preparing and adding a whole run of individual links. The top run has the characteristic sag moulded in, so all you have to do is put them together and paint them sympathetically. The upper hull is built up next, with the usual light clusters, towing eyes and pioneer tools scattered around the surface. The engine deck is completed with a hatch, two louvers and radiator box, which has a PE grille added, with PE stiffeners around the edges, and across the shortest distance. The rear bulkhead has an insert that has the exhausts and their armoured covers, plus a circular access panel added, after which the rear mud-flaps can be installed. At the front the bow machine-gun is added in its own armoured cover, and a length of spare track-links are added in the centre of the glacis plate. At the front the driver's hatch can be posed open or closed, although I don't see much point in the opened option unless you can find a suitably large driver figure to obscure the fact that there's no interior. The join between the upper and lower glacis is finished off by adding a triangular section beam long the front. Now for the turret, which always seems like the fun bit to me, but maybe I'm just easily pleased? The turret comes in two halves, split around its widest part horizontally. There is a deeply contoured casting texture moulded in that looks a little fierce on first inspection. These turrets were incredibly rough-cast however, and under paint it should look about right, but if you wanted to rough it up a little more and vary the depth, you could attack it with a stiff brush and some Mr Surfacer. Check your references and our Walk Around section if you need some additional pointers. You'll need to do a little work to hide the join anyway, but sometimes there were heavy lines around this area anyway, so see your references again. The commander's cupola is raised and has a number of vision blocks around its sides, with a two-part clamshell hatch that is atypical of the variant. It is however correct according to photographic evidence. The mantlet is set on a pivoting block, with a pair of cheek inserts added to hold it all together. The gun is a single part with a slide-moulded hollow muzzle, and slots into the mantlet from the front, while the cupola drops onto the top. A number of grab handles, lifting lugs, mushroom vents and the simple gunner's hatch are also added, completing the turret assembly, which locks into the hull via a bayonet fitting on the turret ring. At this point you'll have to decide how best to proceed regarding the bed-frame armour, as installing it now will make painting and decaling much harder. Personally, I'd build up the frames and their supports and paint them separately, adding them after main painting and decaling has been completed. The turret receives six panels, which have folded angle-iron sides, while the hull has an asymmetrical set, with the starboard side fully protected with four frames, and the port side protected only along the rear half by two frames, which is as it should be according to photographic evidence. The vulnerable engine deck also has a frame attached over its air intake grilles, and all have stand-off brackets attached to the ends and sometimes the middle frames. The front fenders are the last styrene parts to be installed, although these are probably best done before painting. Markings Two decal options have been included in the box, and there are a number of pictures available online that will assist you with verifying the details of your build. Both have the same white identification bands around their turrets and an overall green scheme. From the box you can build one of the following: 11th Tank Corps. K235. Berlin, May 1945. 11th Tank Corps. K238. Berlin, May 1945. The decals are all white, but with red identification numbers that makes finding each one that bit easier. They are printed in Korea, And have good sharpness and colour density, but as they are one colour there should be no need for registration concerns. However, the white has been double-printed with a small offset, as can be seen under magnification when looking at the kit data at the bottom of the sheet. This could well mean that there is a little ghosting of the numerals when applied to the dark green model, so be aware, and touch-in with white paint if necessary. These numbers were roughly hand-painted, so a few wobbles here and there shouldn't matter. Conclusion There are plenty of T-34 kits out there, and while this couldn't be described as an Überkit, it is certainly of good quality, and keeps the detail, whilst retaining simplicity for ease of building. The only parts that might tax your skills are the bed frames, but as long as you have a reliable straight-edge and some patience, it shouldn't be too tricky. Even if your bends aren't perfect, it won't matter at all, as these frames had to content with tank-riding soldiers all the time, so must have got pretty badly beaten up over time. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of UK Distributors for
  5. Hi Everyone, Here is my 3rd completed build of the weekend. It is the Tamiya 1/12 Kawasaki ZX-14 Ninja Special Edition. Painted by hand with Tamiya X-1 Black and X-7 Red. The decals went a lot better with this than my Hayabusa build. Anyway here are the photos. Look out for another bike build in the future, maybe even the alternate colour scheme ZX-14. ATB, Rick
  6. Started today the Eduard boxing of the Academy P-38, in this guise the P-38J's over Europe Work starts with the cockpit - which is replaced entirely with resin and PE and builds up nicely with care. Fun will continue next weekend Peter
  7. Finished this morning, one of my favourite kits the Eduard Aircobra, this time in the Special Edition MTO Theatre boxing. Painted with Gunze throughout, and weathered with Pastels, Oils and AK and Mig Solutions. The build thread is available if interested here Apologies for the slightly uneven photos, but one of my lamps bulbs went part way through, so the white balance was tricky - if it ever stops snowing I may take some more outside. Peter
  8. Started this yesterday Finished the cockpit now, and got the fuselage buttoned up Peter
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