In This Issue

HEAD’S UP!

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, we have elected new officers. Okay, okay, so we only "elected" two new people with the remaining officers maintaining their positions. Stepping down this year were President Derek "Buffie" Brown and VP Mike Gawell. They were replaced by Tom Deppe and Mark "Guido" Persichetti.

Therefore, your officers for the 2002 - 2003 model year are:

Prez: Tom Deppe

VP: Mark "Guido" Persichetti

Secretary: Terry Tuytshaevers

Treasurer: Dallas Lloyd

Chap. Contact: Cliff Davis

Editor: Shawn Schwaller

First off I’d like to send a hearty Congrats! to Tom Deppe for winning the IPMS Denver Rob Wolf president post. Tom’s enthusiasm will serve the members well as we approach the 2003 Regional. It has been a hoot to once again stand at the front of the room – hopefully you found it as enjoyable as I did.

The final chapter of the MOTY points will be completed at this next meeting. Congrats to all that will win and to those that just had fun building models. Hopefully the MOTY business was taken in the spirit of which it was intended – to have fun and encourage participation at events and build models. I have given 5 points each to those that have been elected to serve for 2002/2003, and have updated the points based on the last meeting. There have been no point updates related to the COLPAR car show and contest, so see me at the beginning of the meeting for those updates. After show and tell and during the break, I will bring the points current and then announce the names of the three top totals for the gift certificates. We will then draw the name of the lucky "second chance" winner. And then the MOTY award will ride off into the sunset, unless someone else wants to arrange it for next year.

A couple of notes-

Colpar will be having a Tent Sale August 3^rd (of course while some of us are at Nats!). Please plan on attending. Fred has been once again gracious in allowing us to display and hand out IPMS literature. Thanks Fred.

Dues are due – please pay Dallas by the next meeting or you will be dropped from the newsletter list.

Thanks go out to Char and Alan for their discussion on painting – amazing stuff!

Thanks goes out to Earl Hosmer who has been diligently working with members to assemble a display for the 2003 IPMS Club Entry – We have not said it enough Earl – Thanks, and an extra 5 MOTY points!

Fred at Colpar has discussed the possibility of working with us to build a display of Civil Jet Aircraft. He would supply the kits if we would.

So – come to the meetings, enjoy the models, and have fun. Oh Yeah… Tom, please continue to give Mark a hard time – for old time’s sake.

Happy modeling!

As your "tax and spend" liberal president-elect for 2002 – 2003, I promise you a Skyhawk in every pot and that we have nothing to fear but fear itself (and natural metal finishes).

Truthfully speaking, I have no grand vision for the club other than to maintain our current direction. The chapter’s membership growth, modeling diversity and talent, and financial health all point toward another year of hobby enjoyment. Many thanks to Derek Brown and Mike Gawell, our outgoing president and vice-president, for all their efforts to set us on this course. Along with incoming vice-president, Mark "Guido" Persichetti, I also thank Terry Tuytshaevers, Dallas Lloyd, Cliff Davis, and our trusty newsletter editor, Shawn Schwaller, for continuing on as stalwarts in their respective leadership positions with the club.

I am honored by your vote of confidence in me and along with the rest of your club leadership look forward to the challenges of the next year.

The 45 Douglas A-4P Skyhawks formed the backbone of the Argentine Air Force attack squadrons, while 8 very similar A-4Qs served aboard the Veinticinco de Mayo, the ex-U.S. Independence-class light carrier in service with the Argentine Navy. The A-4Ps were refitted ex-U.S. Navy A-4Bs, bought from 1965-1975. As such, they were not night/all-weather capable or fitted with the outer wing pylons often used for self-defense air-to-air missiles by other Skyhawk users. Armament options were limited by Argentine budget constraints, and were primarily iron bombs, both conventional and low-drag, in 500lb and 1000lb sizes. Modern warships such as those deployed to the Falklands by the Royal Navy are rather frail, and would have been vulnerable to unguided rockets such as the 5-inch ZUNI or 2.75"FFAR, as well as more sophisticated stand-off weapons. This single factor was to severely limit the Skyhawks effectiveness during the coming war.

The Skyhawks were first thrown into combat on May 21, 1982, when the Argentine Air Force began an all-out effort to stop the British invasion force in Falkland Sound, a narrow strip of water separating the largest two of the Falkland Islands. This strip of water became known as "Bomb Alley" to the beleaguered British sailors, and "Death Valley" to the Argentine pilots attempting to kill them. For the next 18 days the Skyhawks flung themselves against the British ships at San Carlos Water, braving a 400 mile-radius flight and wildly fluctuating weather. Attacks were made at wave-top height through both intense anti-aircraft fire and SAMs from the ships, as well as Sea Harriers flying CAP over the beachhead.

The A-4Ps and their intrepid pilots pressed their attacks with suicidal bravery and skill, earning the grudging admiration of their British counterparts (one A-4P had a sizeable portion of a drop tank torn off when it hit the mast of the ship it had just bombed!), but they were handicapped by many factors. The Skyhawks were at the limits of their range flying from bases in Argentina, so weapon loads were small. These weapons were plain unguided bombs, forcing the attackers to fly into the very teeth of the defenses on the British ships. Many bombs were dropped at such low altitudes that they did not have time to arm properly and thus did not explode. Many British ships were saved as a result of this shortcoming.

The tactics dictated by higher command worked against the A-4 pilots as well. Aircraft were committed in small groups of 2s and 4s instead of one massive attack, allowing the small British CAP to take a steady toll of the attackers. Ingress and egress routes were usually the same, again favoring the Royal Navy defenders, who could marshal their slender resources against only a few points. Argentina’s prized Mirage III fighters, with BVR (Beyond Visual Range) missile capability, might have made things hard for the Sea Harriers and easier for the attacking A-4s, but they were retained on the Argentine mainland in case of attack by RAF Vulcan bombers. Only a handful of Exocet antiship missiles and Etendard launch aircraft were available, which could have been useful in attacking warships from long range, allowing the Skyhawks to concentrate low-level attacks on the vulnerable, and more valuable, transports. Better intelligence, better ordnance choices in larger quantities, and better tactics could easily have spelled victory for the Argentines.

The Falklands War ended on June 14, 1982, with the surrender of the last Argentine Army garrison. The A-4Ps, although 25 years old and outdated, handicapped by poor ordnance, and at the limits of their range, had given a good account of themselves. One out of every three A-4Ps was lost over the Falklands. The remaining A-4Ps stayed in service until March 1999, when the last five of those that survived the war were finally retired. The Skyhawk remains an important part of the Argentine Air Force, however. 36 ex-USMC A-4Ms were bought in 1994, refitted with up-to-date electronics, and now fly as the A-4AR Fighting Hawk, where they will serve well into the 21^st Century.

Our intrepid leader, Derek Brown, had originally planned to do the A-4P. He began construction using the Hasegawa A-4C kit and the "Latin Eagles I" decal sheet from Aztec. He finished basic construction but was unable to complete the model due to time shortages, so I took it over. Derek donated both the kit and the decals to our Project at no charge, and I thank him for that. I decided to build it as an A-4P based on the A-4B rather than the C, which Derek had started. This changeover would involve only reshaping the nose and filling in a few scoops on the fuselage. I planned to show this Skyhawk with the canopy shut so I decided I could live with the C-model instrument panel, since it is not very visible when closed up.

Using the nose pieces from the otherwise poor Hobbycraft A-4B "Falkland Fighter" as a guide, I reshaped the nose of the C-model into the B. The large avionics cooling scoop on the nose was filled in, as was the small scoop behind Part F7 and the scoop on the port side of the vertical stabilizer. The saddle-type ADF antenna housing on the dorsal spine was modified from the one that comes in the Hobbycraft kit. A larger blade-type antenna was added (Part E1) in place of Part F4. Finally, two circular antennas were added, one on either side of the fin near the tip. This completed the conversion to the A-4P. The rest of the kit was finished straight from the box except for brake lines and a few odd details added to the wheel wells.

I painted the A-4P using the Aztec sheet instructions as a guide, although their FS number callouts were all screwed up. Poly Scale acrylics were used, with RLM 76 Lichtblau on the undersides, and custom mixed Earth and Dark Green for the upper surfaces. I chose to model A-4P C-242 from the Aztec sheet, with its colorful yellow ID bands on upper wingtips and fin. I armed the A-4P with a single 1000lb Mk 83 on the centerline rack, to replicate the aircraft’s last flight, on May 23, 1982, when 1^st Lt. Luciano Guadagnini hit the Royal Navy frigate HMS Antelope with the half-tonner before his A-4 was destroyed by a Sea Wolf missile. The Antelope later sank as a result of this hit. Lt. Guadagnini died instantly when his Skyhawk exploded. The remains of C242 lie on the bottom of Falkland Sound to this day. The A-4P was a relatively easy build, and will look great amongst the other Skyhawks in our collection, a fitting tribute to the brave Argentine pilots who flew them into naval history.

Kit No. 452 Approximately $47-$50 (USD)

There are just some kits you GOTTA have! No first impressions needed, it fills the niche in the kit collection, and most likely will even get built!

The new Classic Airframes S.79 is such a kit. This kit had been a rumor for many years, and for at least one and a half to two years a definite "it’s coming" thing. First was the Vintage Models 1/48 resin kit that had everything one needed, except the aspirin to make a very fine S.79 rendition in the finer scale, but at a Whopping $169.00 (US) it was out of reach for all but the most avid of aviation modelers. (Not to brag, but I picked mine up for less than $100 very recently!)

The Savoia Marchetti S.79 Sparviero was perhaps Italy’s most important, and definitely it’s most famous bomber of World War II. First establishing itself during the Spanish Civil War as a regular bomber, it proved faster than many of the Spanish Republican fighter craft fielded at that time. After Italy entered the war against the Allies, the S.79 continued I the traditional role as a level bomber, and proved to be the most successful anti-shipping/torpedo bomber of the entire war regardless of side or flag. The aircraft was bought and used by Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, Iraq, Croatia, Romania, and Lebanon. It served on all fronts that Italy fought, and in the opening months of the war was able to hold it’s own against the British fighters such as the Gloster Gladiator at that time until they were replaced with more modern aircraft such as the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, and Curtiss Warhawk. After that the S.79 units were decimated. Throughout the conflict, the British navy had a begrudging respect for Il Gobbo or "The Damned Hunchback".

The Classic Airframes offering continues the revolution of limited run kits, and proves there is a market for such larger aircraft in 1/48 scale. This is not a kit for beginner modelers by any means. It contains 64 resin, 11 clear, 24 photo etch, and 55 plastic parts. My first impression is mainly that I thought this aircraft would have been bigger than it is. It appears to be about the size of a Heinkle He-111, where as the G4M Betty is much closer in size to a B-17. A bit of a surprise to me.

The plastic is molded in a medium gray plastic, and the feel of it reminds me very much of the Nichimo offering of the Kate torpedo bomber I put together a few years back. Not Tamiya, but a "Chunkier" heavier feel to the plastic. Not bad, just different. I believe perhaps the material is softer than your run of the mill Tamigawa/Revelogram offering.

The engraved panel lines are finely done, and the fabric on the control surfaces is incredibly delicate. One is going to have to take care when sanding seam lines on this kit. The plastic is also thicker, so care must be taken to fit, fit and fit again before actually gluing. Guess I will have to invest some cash into 3M and their sand paper business! The resin detail pieces on my offering are well produced, but suffer the same critique I have of all the classic airframe kits that have a lot of resin. The bagging of these parts is such that it invites breakage. I have noticed that both 12.7 mm machine gun barrels are broken off. For a limited run kit, the plastic pieces feature little flash, but sanding will be a must to ensure a good fit. Please note that there are no fit pins on this kit, and most of the injection points are decently hidden but there are a few that will have to be dealt with in a proper manner to hide them or eliminate them.

The biggest disappointments I have with the kit would have to be the choice of subject. The model features decals for early S.79s. 285 Squadregulia, 30 Gruppo, and 10 Squadregulia 8 Stormo from the Spanish civil War, and 193 Squadreglia, 87 Gruppo 30 Stormo based at Sciacca Sicily in 1940-41 (the Electric Man). I highly suggest that one try to pick up the Sky Models 1-48 aftermarket decal sheet for this aircraft if you want some wider selections. When I think of the S-79, I think of its role in the Med, and North African campaigns, not the Spanish Civil War. I am sure though that Classic Airframes most likely intends at some point to bring out a torpedo bomber version of the aircraft, or some aftermarket company will fill in the gap.

I am also a bit miffed that Classic airframes decided to delete the forward firing machine gun from the resin, and did not provide one for the waist position either. The door on the body is molded in the closed position, but can be cut out. There is a photo-etch ladder provided for this option as well as a door. If you do this however, the interior is completely devoid of detail, and unless you happen to want to kit bash from the Vintage Models kit, you will be in the unenviable position of either scratch building the interior with all it’s tubing, or hoping someone produces an aftermarket interior.

The directions are well done, clear, concise, but leave certain details out that I would have liked to see. Step 23 calls for strips of styrene to be used as slides if the dorsal hump is modeled in the open position, but does not indicate what thickness to use, or length. (OK, so I’m a bit lazy!) Painting directions include color and FS 595 color call outs, and a few other tips that put Classic airframes exactly where they should be…the leader of the limited run kits! The decals on mine appear to be in scale, on registration, and are done by Microscale.

A quick test fit shows the usual issues as with any limited run kit in the usual places such as the wing root, so brush up on those basic skills!

All in all despite a few disappointments with it being the earlier version, it is possible to build the later versions with little effort, and I intend to do so. After all I need more brain damage by trying to do one of those Italian mottle schemes! I applaud Classic Airframes for putting out this kit, and most likely will begin very soon to build it. If by chance they put out multiple versions, as I am sure they will with a resin or even an extra sprue of additional plastic with the torpedo and carriage, I know I will get one of those too!

Highly recommended to the experienced modeler for a change of pace with a bit of challenge thrown in!

I also recommend that the modeler pick up the following reference books: Ali D’Italia #9, and #11, SIAI S.79 parts one and two by Cesare Gore from La Bancarella Aeronautica Publications (Appx $18-20 USD ea.), and Savoia Marchetti S.79 in Action (appx $9.95 USD) by Roberto Gentilli from Squadron Signal Publications.

Kit courtesy of my flying out of the driveway and through Denver Colorado traffic in my new 2002 Firebird Formula every morning in a futile attempt to get to work on time. Bought from Great Models Web store in Salt Lake City, UT USA. Home of the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The Auction Continues

Jay wanted as many of his unbuilt kits as possible to go to the members of the chapter. Rather than have members fight tooth and nail over distribution of the kits, we have decided to bring a selection of 72nd and 48th kits to each monthly meeting and hold a silent auction for each set of models. There are approximately 228 72nd scale kits and 109 48th scale kits to be offered. Many of the 72nd kits have photo etch, resin accessories such as interiors, control surfaces, wheels and vac canopies in the boxes with the kits. Some have additional AeroMaster or Eagle Strike decal sets with them (sometimes more than one set in a box). Members may submit written bids during the break for the sets of kits. If members choose to pool their money for a bid on a group of kits they may do so. Kits will be brought to the meetings until they are all gone. Proceeds will go to the club treasury.

The Italeri Ta-152 is a reissue of the former Trimaster and DML kits, except without the metal parts from the previous incarnations. When Italeri released their version last year, I decided to purchase one to build as a test project. I have the Trimaster version, which I bought in 1992 for $75, and I did not want to screw up such an investment. As I discovered during the work I did with the Italeri kit, I should have saved my money back in 1992.

In 1989, I picked up a copy of Scale Modeler magazine with the cover story featuring the Trimaster TA-152H-1. I do not remember why, but I felt I had to get one of these kits. I think it was because it looked so good after 9 years of living in Flagstaff, Arizona, with the paltry selection of models from various hobby shops that came and went (one of which was a combination pet store and hobby shop). I shortly began reading and subscribing to Fine Scale Modeler and found the TA-152 for sale in one of the ads. However, I could not afford the $30 price they were asking, so I decided to wait. Not long after, Trimaster went out of business and dashed my hopes of ever finding the TA-152. However, as I mentioned above, I did find a copy of the TA-152 at a hobby shop in Tucson, Arizona, and did pay $75 plus the Governor’s share.

After I purchased the Italeri version of the TA-152 in April, 2001, I tried to begin to work on it, but my living situation became increasingly untenable and I eventually moved in July. I only began work in late 2001 while I completed a 1/72 scale Spitfire. Almost immediately into the project, I ran into problems. First, I began construction on the wings, which consist of four primary parts: the lower wing, the two upper portions of the wings, and the wing spar. I immediately broke a cardinal rule of basic model construction: test fitting. Not only did I have problems with the wings themselves, I also had fuselage mating problems (more on that later). The wing spar, as I discovered, had to be perfectly aligned or the upper wing pieces would not fit properly. I spent several days just getting the wings to hold together. Then I spent much of the next two weeks sanding the seams smooth. Once I got the wings to where I was satisfied, I test fitted them to the fuselage.

I nearly gave up right then and there. The curve of the upper wing did not match the curve of the wing root on the starboard side! Since there was a lot of detail in the landing gear wells, I decided against raising the wing, so I sanded down the wing root on the fuselage to match the wing. I looked at both my Trimaster kits (I also found a TA-152C-0 kit in 1993) and discovered that the error on the curve of the wing was from the mold.

After that ordeal was over, I turned my attention to the fuselage. Now that I was wiser to what was happening, the fuselage came together easier than the wings; but not without its own problems. After putting the in cockpit, I glued the fuselage together, being very careful to keep it aligned as best as I could. Once I cut off the rubber bands, I knew I had more problems to fix. I had aligned the fuselage primarily looking at the engine cowling, which was still aligned. However, towards the rudder, the details were misaligned, and nothing lined up on the bottom. A week or so later, I had sanded all the seams and rescribed the panel lines.

I decided to spray silver instead of gray primer and my first base coat. After that had dried, I sanded on some more areas that I missed, and sprayed silver again. I then tried something I had never used before: Future acrylic floor wax. After every coat of paint, I would spray a coat of Future. This greatly helped when I masked areas. I am use acrylic paint, since I live in an apartment and use my oven hood as a spray booth. The dried acrylic has a nasty tendency to come up with the tape, even low tack varieties. I only had one incident where the paint came off, and that was when I used extremely tacky double-sided tape to hold the masks for the wavy pattern at the leading edge of the wings.

Just in front of the rudder, there are two vertical bands: one red, the other yellow. The kit came with a decal, but I decided to try and paint them on. First, I sprayed the yellow, and then covered it with a coat of Future. I masked the area that would remain yellow, and then sprayed the red followed by a coat of Future. I masked the red, then sprayed the light gray on the underside of the plane, again followed by a coat of Future.

My biggest surprise came on the Sunday I painted the upper camouflage pattern. I used paper masks held with poster putty as I put on each color where there was a demarcation between colors. On the fuselage where the upper color blends with the gray, I free handed with the airbrush. At the end of the day, I removed all the masks, including the masks on the bands, and marveled at what I had accomplished. The bands had some bleed from the camouflage, but for the most part the painting of the bands came out better than I could have ever done with the decal.

That was the high point of the project. Putting aside the plane, I turned to the rest of the details (cannons, landing gear, canopy, etc.). I did not like how thick the loop aerial from the kit, so I made a new one from wire. I was amazed at how easily the insulation came off the copper, so I decided to make the barrels for the wing root 20-mm cannons from the same small wire. The first attempt failed, because once the insulation was off the wire, it curled. On my next attempt, I only pulled out the wire just enough to show a hollow tube, painted it, and glued it on. I used brass tubing for mounting the propeller, since I knew I would be transporting it at some future date.

Next came the landing gear, and the next headache. According to the instructions, the piece depicting the strut for the retraction mechanism was to be inserted into a mounting hole in the landing gear well. I tried to do that, however, if I had stuck to the instructions, the landing gear would have angled outward, instead inward like Focke-Wulfs are supposed to. I made it look as best as I could, but the landing gear still looks too vertical. The inner gear doors were supposed to have attached onto the engine mount, but they did not even reach that far! As my frustration level continued to rise, I quickly masked and painted the canopy, glued it on, and declared it finished.

I kept a log of the days I spent on the TA-152, for a grand total of 58. Overall, the model looks good, but I will never try to enter it into a contest. I chalk it up to more practice since I have not worked on models much in the last five or six years. I also tested techniques and materials that I had never tried before (such as Future). Some I will keep, others I need to work on.

1/35 M151A1 Light Utility Truck

1/35 M151A1 Mutt 'IDF Shmira'

1/48 Lavochkin La-7

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-14

1/35 Bell UH-1C Huey Heavy Hog

1/35 Bell OH-58D Kiowa "Black Death"

1/72 North American F-86E Sabre 'El Diablo'

1/35 BM-13 Katyusha

1/35 Sdkfz 138/1 Grille M

1/6 Star Wars Shadows, Xizor Warlord Figure

1/6 Star Wars Shadows, Emperor Palpatine Figure

1/25 Star Wars Shadows, Xizor's Virago Fighter

Star Wars Tie Interceptor (Gold Plate Version)

1/6 Star Wars Luke Skywalker Figure

1/6 Star Wars Han Solo Figure With Pistol

1/48 Star Wars Nabo Starfighter Die-Cast

1/32 Star Wars Anakin's Pod Racer With Paint

1/32 Star Wars Trade Federation Tank With Paint

1/6 Star Wars Stap With Battle Droid With Paint

1/6 Pre-Painted Lando Calrissian Figure

1/25 Coyote Super Sports Car

1/700 IJN Heavy Cruiser Chokai

1/700 IJN Heavy Cruiser Maya

1/72 Breda Ba-65 (re-issued)

1/72 Loire-Nieuport Ln.411 Navy Dive Bomber

1/72 Martin Maryland M167 Light Bomber

1/100 High Grade MSA-0011 (Ext) Ex-S Gundam EFSF Prototype Transformable Mobile Suit

1/100 Master Grade MS-06F-2 Zaku IIF-2 Zeon Mass Productive Mobile Suit

1/48 Savolia Marchetti S.79 Tri-Motor Bomber

1/12 1972 Ford Mustang 429 Cubic Inch Mach 1

1/12 Lancia Stratos HF Monte Carlo Alitalia Car #1

1/250 IJN Battleship Yamato

1/250 IJN Battleship Musashi

1/250 IJN Aircraft Carrier Shinano

1/48 'Shenzhou-Magic Vessel' Spacecraft w/ Chang Zheng 2F (CZ-2F Rocket)

1/48 Heinkel He-162A-2 Salamander

1/35 T26E-3 Pershing

1/35 101st Airborne, Bastogne '44

1/35 T-34/85 Mod. 1944 Heavy Tank

1/35 Jagd-Tiger Sd.Kfz. 186

1/35 Tauch Panzer III Ausf. H

1/48 Lavochkin La-7

1/72 Albatros D.V "Stropp"

1/48 Albatros D.V Profipack

1/48 Super Mystere B2

1/35 LCVP

1/24 Honda Cr-X SI Cybersport Racer

1/24 1965 Porsche 356B/C GS Carrera Hardtop

1/24 1996 Honda Civic Type R

1/24 Racing Star Veilside S14 Sports Coupe

1/72 Vought A-7D Corsair II Sharkmouth

1/72 Junkers Ju-87B/R Stuka Immelmann

1/72 Junkers Ju-87D-1/3/7 "Dora" Stuka

1/72 NA RF-86F Sabre "Wood Pecker"

1/72 Douglas A-4C Skyhawk VA-76 Spirits

1/72 Grumman EA-6A Black Bunny

1/72 Grumman KA-6D Intruder Tanker

1/72 Mikoyan Mig-21Black Lynx

1/72 Grumman F-14A Tomcat VF-2

1/72 Sikorsky CH-53G German Air Force

1/72 Junkers Ju-87G-2 Kanonenvogel Tank Killer

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-109K-4

1/72 Vought F4U-1D Corsair "Royal Navy"

1/72 MDD F-4E Phantom II "IDF"

1/72 Panavia Tornado IDS Tiger Meet 2001

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-109K-4 "Red Tulip"

1/48 Vought F4U-5 Corsair Cag Bird CVG-1

1/32 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb "Night Fighter"

1/200 Lockheed AC-130H Spectre Gunship

1/144 Convair B-36B Peacemaker

1/144 Convair B-36D Peacemaker

1/48 Sukhoi Su-27 'Flashpoint Flanker'

1/72 Fieseler Fi-103A-1 Flying Bomb (V-1)

1/72 Reichenberg Re IV (Fi-103)

1/72 Lavochkin La-5

1/72 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-10/R-2

1/72 YakovlevYak-3 Fighter

1/72 Marko Moraine Fighter

1/72 Sukhoi Su-9B Interceptor

1/72 Ka-25 Hormone Helicopter

1/35 2cm Hangelafette 38 Turret

1/72 Sukhoi Su-12 Reconnaissance Aircraft

1/288 International Space Station

1/288 Vulcan Rocket

1/144 United Airlines 777-200

1/144 Alaska Airlines 737-400.

1/144 Northwest Boeing 707-351B

1/144 British Airways Boeing 707-420

1/72 Northrop A-17

1/72 Northrop XP-56 "Black Bullet"

1/72 Jakovlev UT-1

1/700 IJN Erimo Class Japanese

1/700 IJN Seaplane Tender Notoro

1/72 M2A2 Bradley KFOR

1/72 Jagdpanther & Deutsche Infantry

1/72 Sturmgeschutz IV

1/72 T-80 BV with Explosive Reactive Armour

1/72 M1A1 (HA) Abrams Main Battle Tank

1/72 British Challenger 1 KFOR

1/72 Panther Ausf. D/A With Fallschirmjager

1/35 SPPZ 2 Luchs A2 SFOR

1/35 LAV-25 (MC) Piranha

1/35 USMC LVT-(A)1 Amtank

1/35 Jeep & M34 Tactical Truck

1/72 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-10

1/72 Fokker D VII

1/72 EH 101 Merlin HC3 Heavy Lift Helicopter

1/72 Eurocopter AS-532 Cougar Super Puma

1/72 Convair B-36H/RB-36F Peacemaker

1/48 NA F-86D Sabre Dog Late Version

1/32 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero-Sen

1/144 KLM Boeing 747-400

1/144 Northrop B-2 Stealth Bomber

1/72 PT-117 Torpedo Boat

1/72 British Vosper MTB Torpedo Boat

1/144 Coastal Submarine U-Boat Type 206A

1/144 Type XXI U 2540 With Full Interior

1/144 Northsea Fishing Trawler

1/300 German Frigate F-122 Niedersachsen

1/350 USS New Jersey Bb62

1/550 USS Saratoga CVA-60 Aircraft Carrier

1/570 Battlecruiser Scharnhorst

1/570 Battleship Tirpitz

1/720 USS John C Stennis CVAN-74

1/720 USS Enterprise CVAN-65 Nuclear Carrier

1/720 Cruiser Prinz Eugen

1/720 USS Arizona Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941

1/720 USS Massachusetts BB-59

1/720 HMS Ark Royal Aircraft Carrier

1/720 USS Tarawa LHA-1 Assault Ship

1/720 USS Nimitz CVN-68 Aircraft Carrier

1/400 Russian SSBM Typhoon Class Submarine

1/24 Ford Focus WRC Valvoline/Telefonica

1/24 BMW-Williams FW23 Compac/Nortel

1/24 Classic British MG TC 1945

1/12 Vincent Black Shadow Series C

1/24 1958 Ford Thunderbird Convertible 2'-N-1

1/25 1959 Chevrolet Corvette 2'-N-1

1/25 #29 GM Goodwrench Service Monte Carlo

1/25 T. Schumacher US Army Top Fuel Dragster

1/48 Lockheed P-38H/G/H Lighting

1/25 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 Pre-Painted

1/48 McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

1/48 Grumman FM-2 Wildcat

1/20 Ferrari 312T3 Clear Cowl Car #12.

1/20 Tyrrell P34 1977 Monaco GP

1/24 Subaru Impreza WRC 2001 Car #5

1/32 Die-Cast Pull-Back Bus

1/35 Panzer Division Frontline Recon Team

1/35 King Tiger Ardennes

1/28 Big Rigs Peterbuilt 378 Diecast Kit

1/28 Big Rigs Kenworth T600 Diecast Kit

1/35 King Tiger Interior

1/48 Airfield Tent

1/35 AH-1W Cobra Detail Set

1/35 King Tiger Zimmerit and Details

1/35 German Para Head Set

1/35 US Marines Running

1/35 Chow Time: German Tankers WW II

1/35 Breakfast: German Tankers WW II

1/35 Victorious Celt Diorama

1/35 Newspaper Salesman WWII

1/35 German WWII Paratrooper Head Set (12)

US Military Aviation Directory

Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory 1950-Today

Kriegsmarine Schnellboote

An Illustrated History of the RAF

Hell's Gate: Cherkassy Pocket

Journal of Armored Assault, Vol 1

Naval Fighters #20 Grumman AF Guardian

Grumman F9F Panther, Pt1

Bridgehead Kurland

A Galaxy Far Away

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Dolphin & Snipe Aces of WW I

Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45

Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando 1960-71

US Naval Aviator

North American P-51 Mustang Modeling Manual

Focke-Wulf Fw-190 Modeling Manual

SPAD XII/XIII Aces of WW I

Lancaster Squadrons, 1942-1943

M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car 1941-91

More Luftwaffe Fighter Aircraft in Profile

North American XB-70 Valkyrie

Defenders of the Reich

Jagdwaffe Vol 2/Sec 3: Battle of Britain Phase 3

Petlyakov Pe-2 in Action

F4U Corsair in Detail Reissued!