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decals are provided for instrument dials and data placards, and they settle down perfectly over the raised areas, only requiring care and precision in applying them.

detailed, but they do feature moulded-on seat belts. To improve the finished look of the seats, I used Eduard’s new pre-coloured steel The two ejector seats are nicely

etched belts, kindly provided by

the Editor, which greatly enhanced the appearance of the seats. covering the circuit breakers, the starboard cockpit wall panel is As there are three clear panels

provided as a clear part, so careful masking is required to protect the clear covers during painting. A decal is provided to fit on the rear of the part

to simulate the circuit breakers themselves, which is a real nice touch.

Tfighter, and featured a number of advanced features, such as compressed air-powered ejector seats for its two-man crew. It was he Heinkel He 219 was the Luftwaffe’s first, and only, purpose-built night

also heavily armed, with up to six forward firing cannons, and in later variants, two Schräge Musik upward-firing oblique cannons. As a twin-engine,

tricycle undercarriage, twin-fin aeroplane it was also an aesthetically pleasing machine. Revell’s kit of the He 219 has

been out for a few years now; this is a re-release, and includes parts to build the earlier A-0 variant, which features smaller radar antennas and a differently profiled rear canopy.

standard end-opening box and contains fourteen light grey sprues and two clear sprues. The The kit comes in Revell’s

grey parts feature some very fine details, including recessed panel lines and panel fasteners. There is some flash and a few mould ejector marks in awkward places,

but the rather long fuselage halves are free of any warping. Revell’s new colour format, with twenty-seven pages covering The instruction booklet is in

seventy-seven assembly stages, and colour painting guides for three schemes. Colour callouts are for Revell’s own paints, though they are cross-referenced to RLM colours.

Stages One to Thirteen of the instructions covers the assembly of the two-seat cockpit. Out of the CONSTRUCTION

box, a very highly detailed cockpit can be built, featuring raised detail on the various instrument panels and consoles. Numerous

detailed with the kit’s decalsPilot’s instrument panels,

NIGHT

OWLRevell 1/32 Heinkel He 219 A-0/A-2 Night fighter by Angelo Picardo

Completed cockpit tub looking forward Completed cockpit tub looking aft

panel, detailed with Radar operator’s the kit’s decals

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something quick and simple to build, and choosing the Italeri Hurricane seemed to fit the bill. Moulded in a fairly soft, pale grey plastic, Italeri’s Hurricane Mk.

comprises just 93 grey parts, nine clear parts, and a small metal fret that includes the pilot’s harness, two canopy handles, and the instrument panel.

has 35 pages of colour and monochrome photographs that include close-ups of such details The A5 reference manual

as the propellers, exhaust stacks and intakes, radiator internals, gun bays, cockpit, and wheel bays. There are no photographs of the engine or engine bay though,

which I felt was something of an oversight, considering that the kit includes a representation

of the Rolls Royce Merlin. consists of 15 pages of clearly drawn, black and white illustrations. Construction The A4 instruction booklet

naturally begins with the cockpit and proceeds through 16 stages and several sub-stages. There is a single-page fret map to aid in part location, and six pages

feature the colour schemes and decal placement. These latter pages are also in black

and white, but there are colour illustrations of the scheme options in the reference manual.

THE COMING STORM: AFTERMARKET ACCESSORIESI seem to be in the habit these days of trawling the internet looking for aftermarket goodies for the

kits I have accumulated in my model stash, and then buying them without having ascertained if those kits actually require

them or not (more

money than sense, I hear you cry). But kit manufacturers these days seem to be packing more detail into their newly-tooled releases, and very often those aftermarket

sets seem superfluous once the kit parts are examined more closely. Hurricane. Upon opening the nicely illustrated box I discovered Such was the case with Italeri’s

that I had purchased two Aires sets, one containing a beautifully detailed resin cockpit and another containing a very nice single-

Italeri 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 by Jay BlakemoreHURRICANE SEASON piece wheel bay. Lying at the

Dwith three1/48 state-of-the-art kits appearing in quick succession. The most recent release is that by Airfix, and it evotees of the Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 have been spoilt of late,

has already been proclaimed by some reviewers as the most accurate model of the type in any scale. Italeri and Tamiya have also released newly-tooled

editions of the same aircraft. engraved panel lines and are beautifully detailed, but they each offer slightly different features All three kits feature finely

to entice the modeller. The Airfix kit includes two Battle of Britain colour scheme options, a lavishly detailed cockpit, and the option

of displaying the fully-detailed, wing-mounted gun-bays. optional engine, a detailed cockpit, and a lavish “super decal sheet”, The other two kits include an

printed by Cartograph and featuring six colour scheme options: four Battle of Britain machines, one Malta-based aircraft, and one Irish example. They also include a useful

A5 photographic reference booklet.the Tamiya release you get a separate decal sheet with a seventh, Finnish Air Force scheme, and Additionally, if you purchase

three standing RAF crew figures. It certainly seems that there has been a change in the weather and that Hurricane season is upon us.

in a couple of protracted modelling projects, I decided I wanted Having lately been embroiled

“THE FINISHED MODEL BUILDS INTO A FITTING MINIATURE MEMORIAL TO THE BRAVE YOUNG PILOTS WHO

FLEW THE AIRCRAFT IN ANGER”

HURRICANE

In the eye of the

KIT DETAILSTYPEKIT NUMBERSCALEPARTS COUNT: ITALERI HAWKER HURRICANE MK.1 : 1/48: 2705: 102

DECAL OPTIONS: 6

ITEMS USEDAIRES HAWKER HURRICANE MK.1 COCKPIT SET: 4543AIRES HAWKER HURRICANE WHEEL BAY: 4542QUICKBOOST HURRICANE EXHAUST: QB

MONTEX MINI MASK: SM

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THE KIT144th.co.uk’s new kit is presented as 16 reasonably cast resin parts, with thin attachments for the

casting blocks. Our sample was an early production version, so it suffered from the fuselage mouldings being attached to their casting blocks across the joint

faces, making clean up difficult. representative cockpit interior (see later), the only option for a canopy in our kit was a solid resin item Despite the inclusion of a pretty

with decals for the glass; there was no mention of the cockpit in the rather simplified instructions in our box. However, the upcoming options do look much better, and

144th.co.uk has informed us that future kits will include clear resin

canopies, cockpits cast in resin and metal (to act as nose weight), improved gating for the fuselage, and re-written instructions.

be excellent, and if previous experience is anything to go by, should be easy to use (144th already produce a separate decal sheet The kit’s decals look to

covering a raft of RAF airframes). offers two schemes:• The kit we received 85 Squadron WS593, RAF Church Fenton 1958 (dark green/medium

• sea grey/dark sea grey).264 Squadron WS604, RAF Middleton St George 1957 (dark green/medium sea grey).

CONSTRUCTIONWith no set running order, I started the construction with the wings. These are provided as a

one-piece central section, plus lower outer sections containing the lower halves of the engine nacelles. Separate outer panels contain the upper nacelles.

engine, including a finely cast rear jet pipe. However, simply gluing the engine parts together and There are two parts to each

fitting them in the nacelles will lead to an elementary error, just like mine! The engine body/jet pipe is significantly longer than it needs to be for the nacelle, and used as-is

would put the engine front face far too far forward. Anyone with much of an understanding of Meteor architecture will realise that the representations of the wing carry-

through on the engine should line up with the wing leading edges. I suspect that the engine might need some reduction in diameter if it’s to be positioned correctly.

later, the upper wing sections were superglued on, precluding any remedial surgery. The fit With the error not spotted until

isn’t great, and one of the nacelle fronts was a bit oval, needing several applications of super glue to build up the section, and some careful carving of the mouth to

bring it closer to circular. More super glue was used to fill the rather ragged horizontal joints, and De Luxe Products Perfect Plastic Putty was used to blend

the wing-to-nacelle joint.care in removing them from their pour blocks, the thin sections making them somewhat delicate. The fuselage halves need some

The separate nose (to accommodate

1/144th.co.uk 1/144 Meteor NF 11/12/14 by Huw Morgan

IBoulton Paul P.111 and the Avro 707) from this new company, and were pretty pleased with the results. Things have moved on, n Vol. 23, Issue 4 of SAMi we published the build of a pair of resin models (the

and 1/144th.co.uk have a brand new issue of a Meteor Night Fighter, which at Scale Model World we were able to snaffle for review; the new kit comes as

potentially NF 11, 12, or 14 options.of Meteor Night Fighters was an expedient solution to the Development of the family

capability gap which opened up between the ageing Mosquito night fighters and the availability of the truly all-weather Gloster Javelin. Realising that bringing

the Javelin to production status would take some time, Gloster hit on the idea of adding air intercept radar to the existing two-seat Meteor T7 trainer. With the parent

company fully occupied with other Meteor versions and the Javelin, development of the Night Fighter was farmed out to Armstrong Whitworth, the first of the family

(the NF11) flying in December 1948.

KIT DETAILSKITMANUFACTURERSCALEPRODUCT CODE: GLOSTER METEOR NF12: 1/144: 1/144TH.CO.UK: 44007

PANEL LINESNO OF PARTSTYPESTATUSDECAL OPTIONS:RESIN: NEW TOOL: RECESSED: 16 RESIN : 2

The kit contents are well-packed in a substantial box, which is identical for all three variants offered

A late addition to our early-production kit was a cast resin cockpit tub, complete with seats and instrument panels. Future kits may have metal cockpits The fuselage halves are actually rather delicate and need careful removal from their pour blocks, whose location leaves the joint faces a bit ragged with Deluxe Liquid Gravity as The hollow nose was filled a defence against tail sitting

The wings have reasonable engraved detail, although the trailing edges are very thick; the one-piece moulding precludes any thinning without serious loss of detail

nice hollow-cast jet pipes. Here I’m about to commit mistake #1 with the placement There are engine front faces and rather of the front faces too far forward

NIGHT

FIGHTER

QUICKBUILDA Small-scale

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the aircraft’s STOL potential to help reach remote airstrips in Papua, New Guinea. Unfortunately for them, Australia’s Department of Civilian Aviation wouldn’t authorize

the plane’s STOL use, even though RAAF military Caribous could use it. Ansett sold this Caribou in 1969.

FIXING THE KITTo call Hobbycraft’s Caribou kit “simple” is no overstatement. The cockpit is not only pretty sparse, but it’s also incorrect and

very noticeable through the huge greenhouse canopy. The wing dihedral is also too level, but thanks to some online research of build reviews and many helpful tips, I was

able to lay out a plan to correct those failings and to add a lot of extras.To help bring my “Bou” to life, I

Hobbycraft 1/72 Ansett Airlines DHC-4A Caribou by Paul Crawley

A“Bou”, the rugged yet graceful de Havilland Caribou. In the 1980s I loved to see the Army National Guard fly them over my home lthough I mostly build civil aircraft, I have always loved the look of a

from nearby Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia (USA).“Bou” came alive about ten years ago when I discovered a 1/72 set of My desire to one day build a

Ansett–M.A.L. Airlines markings by Underworld Decals of Australia. Once I had those in hand, I found one of Hobbycraft’s 1/72 scale RCAF/UN DHC Caribou Transport kits.

both out of my stash and thought This past July I finally dragged

I could do a nice, simple build. But then I saw how basic the Hobbycraft kit is, found out about some aftermarket improvements,

and decided to open up the cargo bay doors and do a complete, scratch-built cargo interior. So much for the “simple” build.

Online research lead me to Caribou VH-BFC, a DHC-4A purchased from de Havilland by Ansett in 1965 after it had been leased for three years to THE PLANE

the Swedish Air Force. One source claims Ansett paid $595,000 for it (about $4.6 million in today’s dollars). Ansett apparently wanted

“I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE AFTERMARKET COCKPIT KIT SINCE THE “OFFICE” IS SO

VISIBLE ON THIS AIRCRAFT”

FREIGHTER

FRUSTRATED

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had a large American flag painted on both sides of the fuselage. While that was being done, Cantacuzino drew Gunn aside and told him

their plan to take off early the next morning had become widely known and might be compromised. As soon as the painting was finished, Cantacuzino produced heavy flying

gear for Gunn, stuffed him through an 18-inch-square access door

into the fuselage (from which the radio had been removed), locked the door, and took off at 5:20 p.m. on Aug. 27. The two-hour flight

was completed without incident, though the Bf-109’s engine began to run rough over the Adriatic.”So with that type of motivation

I had to build this aircraft. The Eduard Weekend Edition of the Erla-built Bf-109G-6 was released, so why not use it to create this

Eduard 1/48 Bf-109G-6 Erla Weekend Edition by Floyd S. Werner, Jr. historic aircraft? The Weekend Edition is the mid-level offering from Eduard, and while it doesn’t include masks or photo-etch (PE), a

Fseeking a way to be repatriated. Lt. THE SUBJECTollowing the surrender of Rumania to the Allies, the POWs in Rumania were

Col James Gunn was the highest ranking POW in Rumania and he was attempting to get them back. Magazine: “Gunn was approached According to Air Force

by Capt. Constantine Cantacuzino, who offered to fly him to Italy in the belly of a Bf-109. Captain Cantacuzino was commander of a

Romanian fighter group that had been flying for the Luftwaffe. He also was Romania’s leading ace and a member of the royal family. The risk of this venture was not slight.

If they were downed by German

or American fighters or by flak, or had an engine failure, it would be curtains for Gunn, locked in the aft fuselage of the Bf-109.There were no maps of Italy

available, so Gunn drew from memory a map of the southeast coast of the country and an approach chart for his home base at San

Giovanni Airfield. He wanted Captain Cantacuzino to fly on the deck to avoid German radar,

but the Romanian, who did not have complete confidence in his engine, held out for 19,000 feet, which would test Gunn’s tolerance to cold and lack of oxygen.

As an added precaution, they

A MESSERSCHMITTBuilt For Two?

“THE UNIQUE AMERICAN MARKINGS MAKE THIS

AIRCRAFT REALLY STAND OUT IN MY COLLECTION OF 109S”

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THE KIT Until the release of Fly Models’ Ilyushin Il-10 there was only one contender, the Kopro kit from the

1980s. The new mouldings from Fly reflect the latest technology, having finely recessed consistent panel lines and good detail both inside and out. Due to its short-run

nature, however, some of the parts need adjustment to make them fit. kit has been released in three different boxings, “Soviet Service”, At the time of writing, the

“Korean War”, and “Post-War”. My review sample was the Soviet Service (72035) version, which contains markings for four Soviet Air Force aircraft from 1945 to

1956. There are two sprues of plastic, one clear sprue, and a resin block containing various small parts, such as antennas,
      landing gear arms, and exhaust stacks. These are beautifully cast, but must be treated carefully (I broke one of the exhausts and the

loop antenna as I was removing them from the casting block!). and without distortions, as they should be (even so, I dipped them All clear parts are transparent

in Alclad Gloss for some additional protection and that extra shine). The light brown plastic runners have sprue gates extending onto the mating surfaces of

parts, while some of the smaller parts suffer from mould seams, which need to be scraped away with a sharp scalpel blade. There have been a few comments

regarding the kit’s accuracy on various online forums. It seems that the nose is undersized in vertical dimensions, and both top

and lower engine cowling

should be more convex. The windscreen sits slightly too high, and the placement of the exhausts is not correct either. These issues are difficult to address as they require

delicate plastic surgery, so I went ahead without modifications. You may judge by looking at my build whether or not these corrections are really necessary – to my

eyes, it still looks like an Il-10.The cockpit consists of 14 parts, (^) CONSTRUCTION
including pedals, side consoles, defence
gun, and ammunition boxes for the rear gunner. Decals for the instrument panel and consoles are also provided. I added photo-
etch seatbelts from the spares box and sprayed the interior Gunze H307 Grey, picking out details by hand using Vallejo acrylics. Once the fuselage halves were
closed, I added the lower wing section, carefully positioning it on a scale ruler to get everything lined up straight. The lower wing has separate resin air intakes,
one on each side. These are quite fragile, but have to be inserted at this stage, along with the radiator grill on the centre wing. I did a test run with the upper
wing halves, and this revealed further problems. When positioned to fit the wing tip, they did not line up with the wheel bay bumps, and were too wide on the fuselage-
to-wing joint. I addressed this
Fly Models 1/72 Ilyushin Il-10 by Roman SchilhartPhotographs by Wolfgang RabelTHE SUBJECT
IIl-2 ground attack aircraft. The new type, called the Il-10, was a much cleaner design with better flight characteristics and n autumn 1943, the Ilyushin design bureau developed a replacement for the Ilyushin
less aerodynamic drag, making its first flight in April 1944. the same as on the Il-2, with two wing cannons and a defensive Offensive armament remained
gun position in the back of the cockpit. The aircraft had two bomb bays located just inboard of the landing gear bay, and
could also carry two externally
mounted bombs on wing racks. Il-2, was often seen with rockets under the wings, these were not used on the Il-10. The first Il-10s in While its predecessor, the
European skies were those assigned to the 108th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment in early 1945. The new aircraft saw only limited service in Europe before the war ended,
but it was used in far greater numbers on the Manchurian front against the Japanese, and later during the Korean War, carrying
on with the Soviet Air Force and its allies until the mid-1950s. Between 1944 and 1954 a total of 4,966 aircraft were built.
I L-1 0
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SHOW REPORT
Shuttleworth Model Show
Trate including a large number of very impressive dioramas that I had never seen before. These drew the attention of not hough quite a small show the quality of models on display were first
only modellers but members of the public who were just visiting the Shuttleworth collection and found the
model show in the engineering and restoration hanger.plenty of good quality models What more could you ask for
on display as well as one of the best vintage aircraft collections in the country?
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18th February 2018
building the nozzles, but hard work always pays off and the result is worth the effort. With the nozzles done I turned to the canopy. I started by removing the centre
moulding lines of the omega-shaped canopy (a common issue with injection moulded blown canopies). I started by removing the moulding line with a new
scalpel blade, very gently scraping along the seam. Next, I started sanding, working from 1000 grit down to 4000, then used Tamiya polishing compounds to restore
a perfect finish. If you work slowly and with patience, the Finally, I scratch-built the moulding line will disappear like it was never there.
RWR bulges on both wing slats. These are located 3cm away from the fuselage and can be seen on Indonesian Air Force Su-30MKs
and RMAF Su-30MKMs.
PAINTING AND DECALINGI masked the canopy and started the painting process by priming everything, using AK Interactive AK175 Grey Primer plastic parts,
and AK757 Black for the photo-etch. This ensures that the paints adhere well to the brass and plastic and helps prevent
the paint from peeling off. or humidity, there will be some annoying primer particles left on Sometimes, due to air pressure
Iin service. Even though it is big and heav y, its actual performance never fails to amaze me. Trumpeter has made one of the n all its versions, the Sukhoi Flanker is one of the most beautiful modern airplanes
best 1/72 scale Flanker families on the market, with a near perfect fit and amazing details in every kit. I have built many variants of the Trumpeter SU-30MKK,
Su-27, and Su-33, and I have thoroughly enjoyed each one. the MK are not much different, I Since the shape of the MKK and
decided to modify Trumpeter’s 1/72 Su-30MKK Flanker-G #01659 to an Su-30MK of the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU). The Indonesian Air Force Su-
30MK is probably one of the less popular Flankers, but I love its camouflage patterns, so I decided to give it a shot. My model was going to represent  Su-30MK, TS-
3001 of the 11th Squadron (“The Thunders”), Indonesian Air Force, based in Sultan Hasanuddin AFB, Makassar in South Sulawesi. For this build I used Indonesian Air
Force decals from the Hi-Decal
Line, plus some extra detailing add-ons, such as photo-etch parts from Dream Model, which included canopy details, cockpit details, instrument panels, engine intake,
exhaust nozzles, and ladder sets.THE BUILDFor the cockpit and instrument
panels I used pre-coloured photo-etch from Dream Model; the details on this set is remarkable, and are easy to fit as well. I removed the clear parts from Trumpeter’s HUD
and replaced them with thin clear film, which looks more precise and has a more accurate scale effect.  modified the main wings’ flaps After finishing the cockpit, I
to show them in the lowered position, to give a more interesting and realistic look to the model. I attached both the upper and lower fuselage with Tamiya
thin cement, and after some putty and sanding, the fuselage assembly was done and it was time to move to the next stage. I started by assembling the
nozzles, using Dream Model etch set DM0544. I spent 4 hours
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6 Night Owl
Revell 1/32 Heinkel He 219 A-0/A-
Night Fighter by Angelo Picardo
18 In the Eye of the Hurricane
Italeri 1/48 Hawker Hurricane
Mk.1 by Jay Blakemore
30 A Small-Scale Night Fighter
1/144th.co.uk 1/144 Meteor
NF 11/12/14 by Huw Morgan
30 A Small-Scale Night Fighter
1/144th.co.uk 1/144 Meteor
NF 11/12/14 by Huw Morgan
68 Frustrated Freighter
Hobbycraft 1/72 Ansett Airlines
DHC-4A Caribou by Paul Crawley
68 Frustrated Freighter
Hobbycraft 1/72 Ansett Airlines DHC-4A Caribou by Paul Crawley
12 Messerschmitt Built For Two?
Eduard 1/48 Bf-109G-
Erla Weekend Edition by
Floyd S. Werner, Jr.
26 Ilyushin Il-
Fly Models 1/72 Ilyushin
Il-10 by Roman Schilhart
48 Photo Scrapbook
Shuttleworth Model
Show, February 2018
48 Photo Scrapbook
Shuttleworth Model Show, February 2018
74 Indonesian Thunder
Conversion of Trumpeter’s
Su-30MKK to an Indonesian
MK by Kitti Tatsumaki
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52 Accessories

58 Decals

62 Reviews

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