Several months ago the folks at Eduard stated their intention to issue new, state-of-the-art kits of most of the primary fighter aircraft of the Second World War. The announcement was roundly received as a good thing by the scale modeling community at large since a great many of the presently available kits are years, and in many cases decades, old, and in sore need of replacement. We've alre …

There’s word on the street that ICM kits are a tough date, nice in the box but a bit of a struggle to deal with from a modeler’s perspective. We all know that where there’s smoke there’s fire, to use an old saying, and there may well be an ICM model out there that’s a bit of a challenge to work with but this new Yak-9T kit isn’t it; rather, it’s relatively simple to assemble and very much looks th …

Let's begin this review of the brand new 1/32nd scale Zoukei-Mura Gustav kit with a correction and a caveat. The correction is obvious; by the time Messerschmitt began production of their G-14 series the airplanes were no longer identified as Bf109s but had become Me109s instead. That's a glaring error to be sure, and right off the bat as well, but it's also words and not plastic. We mention it …

A year or so ago the folks at Eduard announced their intention to release state of the art kits of a great many of the American fighters of the Second World War, all in 1/48th scale. The announcement has been soundly received by the polystyrene modeling community as a whole since most of the airplanes that would be covered by that business model (not counting the P-51D Mustang, of course, a type w …

Sometimes you just have to wonder why certain model manufacturers do the things they do when it comes to choosing the kits they're going to issue. That's a question that could come to mind here since there are already two older, if somewhat flawed but entirely adequate, IL-2 kits out there in 1/48th scale (Accurate Miniatures and Tamiya). Do we really need another one? The answer to that is a reso …