Blue Lightning

Bugatti 100 “Racer” Special Hobby, Ref. SH72457 The same way the Bugatti racing cars had been winning races after races througout the 1930s, the Bugatti 100 racer, at least according to the original plan, was designed to compete and win the 1939 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe competition. The overall concept of the low wing

Colourful Fokkers

Belgian Fokker D.VII Civilian two-seater OO-AMH & OO-AMI Arctic Decals, Ref. ARC72-069A (OO-AMH) & ARC72-069B (OO-AMI) After the Armistice, a large amount of military equipment was left behind by the German forces. Belgium received at least 70 Fokker D.VII from Germany as war reparations and those excellent machines were incorporated into the Belgian Aéronautique Militaire.

The Eagle that was not to be.

Mirage 4000 Modelsvit 1/72, Ref. 72053 The Mirage 4000 was designed at the same time as the lighter, smaller, and far more successful Mirage 2000 using the same delta wing and fly-by-wire configuration. First flown in March 1979, the Mirage 4000 proved to be an outstanding heavy fighter-bomber that could have proved to be a

Sherman for the few.

M4A2 Sherman 75mm Zvezda 1/72, Ref. 5063 The latest 1/72 armour kit from Zvezda, this kit is made up of 118 parts cast in the usual ‘Zvezda‘ grey plastic and 2 more (the tracks) in black plastic. The main features of the kit makes this a late M4A2: 47 degree slope glacis and 75mm turret

Totally Marchetti.

SF-260 Duo Pack & Book Special Hobby 1/72, Ref. SH72451 This Duo Pack recently released by Special Hobby allows for the making of two 1/72 SF-260s, in any of the following versions : M/M+/AM/D/W/WL. The box art is simply gorgeous but the contents of the box is even better : there are of course two SF-260 kits,

Home Defense Spectre

F-4C Air National Guard Fine Molds 1/72, Ref. FP46S If there is certainly no need to introduce the Phantom II, few know that the F-4C was first meant to be known as the F-110 Spectre. The USAF got its first Phantoms in 1964, equipped with a very different electronic suite than the US Navy’s F-4Bs ;

Stretched Herk

C-130J-30 Heavy Transport Plane Zvezda 1/72, Ref. 7324 Given some of the parts included in their 2020-released 1/72 C-130H kit, Zvezda have duly released a stretched Hercules. I was a little surprised (and I will admit, a bit disappointed too) to see the kit feature the 6-bladed props of the J variant. I had been

Heavy Paper Projects

British Nuffield Assault Tank A.T.4 OKB Grigorov 1/72, Ref.72094 British Nuffield Assault Tank A.T.10 OKB Grigorov 1/72, Ref.72096 Nuffield Mechanization and Aero was the brainchild of Lord Nuffield who was deeply involved in the development and mechanisation of the British army and the ‘ground’ section of the RAF. The Crusader cruiser tank was one of

Eye in the Sky

Henschel Hs 126B/K ‘International’ Sabrekits 1/72, Ref. SBK72013 Very nice surprise coming from the Czech Republic and in particular from newcomers Sabrekits, is this brand new Hs 126 kit. I’ve always had a liking in this parasol-winged aircraft ever since I laid eyes and hands on the Matchbox kit a good mmmm.. 45 years ago.

Cute Little Bird

Robinson R-44 Astro/Raven KP 1/72, Ref. KPM 0215 It is always, for me in any case, nice seeing light aviation aircraft being marketed in any scale. 2020 brought us this kit from Stransky in the Czech Republic and it is now maybe more widely available from KP, a better-known manufacturer from the same country. Developed