Is 2024 year of the Puma? MiniArt certainly think so, with their all-new Sd.Kfz. 234/2 "Puma" Schwerer Panzerspähwagen in 1/35th scale. The full interior kit is shown inside & out in detail in our preview today... Read on... »

A fairly new publication house, Cavu Publications are starting off the right way, with coverage of some of the most popular military choppers in book & decal form. We look at their two newest in our preview...Read on... »

Please note: this is a companion review for the Hawaiian Air Depot masks; here is the review for the MiniArt P-47D.

MiniArt and Hawaiian Air Depot

Link to product on company site: https://miniart-models.com/product/48001-p-47d-25re-thunderbolt-advanced-kit/

A Very Brief History the P-47

A great deal of information and data is readily available online about the legendary P-47, often referred to as ‘Juggernaut’ or just the ‘Jug.’ The thousands of women and men working around the United States produced over 15,683 P-47s with the P-47s accounting for over astounding 7,000 enemy aircraft losses,86,000 railway cars, 9,000 locomotives, 6,000 armored fighting vehicles and 68,000 trucks. You can easily spend hours reading about the exploits of the P-47 and many of the well-known pilots who flew them. The P-47’s maximum weight capacity was almost 17,000 pounds, compared to the P-51’s at 12,000 pounds, an increase of approximately 5,000 pounds or 41% more than the Mustang. It’s eight .50 caliber guns carried 3,500 rounds compared with the 1,840 rounds for the P-51 (a whopping 90% increase).

This is the Revell SSI re-release of the Renwal USS Springfield. It's possibly one of the most inaccurate models of a ship ever made. The Springfield was converted to a guided missile cruiser after the war, her designation changing from CL 66 to CLG 7. Here are the problems. The kit has two triple 6 inch gun turrets but the converted Springfield only retained one. The kit has six double 5 Inch turrets but it should only have one. The kit has two pole masts but there should be three cage style masts. The kit gives you two Terrier missile launchers but there was only one. The fantail in the kit is configured for a hanger and crane for a stored seaplane, but a helo is given. On the reconfigured ship there was a heli-deck on the fantail but no provision for a hangar. But the helo they give you isn’t all that bad for what it is so I didn’t want it to go to waste, so I put a clear disc on for the rotor and posed it doing a “fly by”. Finally, the entire superstructure was completely reconfigured and the kit's is that from WW II. To fix all that would not be worth the effort, even if it were possible, so I used what they gave me. My only real change was to cut off the very thick molded in railings on the mail deck and replace them with PE and I added PE to the upper decks as well and stretched sprue for the rigging. There’s a photo of the removal of the railings “in progress”. Oh, one other thing. The kit comes with simulated wood decking on the main deck, but from what I can see from photos, aft of just about the centerline it was either removed or covered, which makes sense as the blast from the missiles being launched would have scorched a wood deck. So I sanded/scraped that detail off where needed and smoothed the deck. But, as they say, it is what it is and presented for your viewing pleasure, Revell/Renwal's USS Springfield.

HI ! Here another project I have done in the past , using SOLIDO plastic cast , If you like to view more pics, Just follow this Google link: https://goo.gl/photos/bm6PXUUHQXJiVZn27 Enjoy ! Jmarc

HI ! Here 2 other project I have done in the past they are upgrade of the SOLIDO die cast ,that will be use on dioramas . If you like to view more pics, I have set-up an GOOGLE page for it , just folow this link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yMuaS7KFvNX2uaLo6 Enjoy ! Jmarc

Gecko models have a few new kits on the way - A much loved Vietnam war era vehicle, a pair of Saigon Shuttles , the Desert fox, a princess and a dog are all in our preview...Read on... »

In this episode the boys chat with Chris from model airplane maker to talk about rewards results or efforts?

This is a great little discussion based on Chris’s latest blog which can be found at modelairplanemaker.com

The Possums wars a.k.a The battle of the backyard continues with the Possums 3 to Dave 0.  

Ian gives an update on the 48 hour build which was a huge success.  Julian gives us some bad news regarding the Moosearoo cup and we read your listener mail.

Once again it is the annual B-Roll episode is upon us and what better way to theme it than to put it in a build day setting? we let our hair down and talk any and all topics, from movies, to comics all the way back to scale models!

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Magic Factory are making lots of modern military weapons for modellers. We have seen a lot of US weapons, now it is time for the Russian arms to make an appearance in moulded plastic. We look at the arms list our preview...Read on... »

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In this Episode, Will, Chris, and Tracy interview Noah Krasowitz (https://www.facebook.com/noah.krasowitz.9) of Artbox (https://www.modelkasten.com/), the editorial company behind Scale Aviation, Model Graphix, Armor Modeling, and Navy Yard modelling magazines

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I wish someone would tool up an ACCURATE plastic kit of the CSS Alabama in 1/192nd scale. Big enough to super detail without taking up half the house. Half the size of that huge 1/96th scale inaccurate Revell one that shared the hull mouldings with their Kearsarge. Looked up Bluejacket's wooden kit. Accurate, but again enormous in 1/96th scale.

Good morning. I used a siphon airbrush for the first time and a surface primer designed for use with the airbrush. Can you help me with what caused the bubbles and how I can fix it if possible? Thanks in advance.

We get to see some of the weapons & fuel tanks that Magic Factory's new Skyhawk kit can carry. We look at them in our preview update...Read on... »