Aircraft reviews
GRIFFINS AND LIONS
Revell has re-boxed ICM’s impressive quarter-scale Heinkel He 111H-6 with a new set of decals, covering the Mediterranean and Russian theatres of operation.
DOOLITTLE COMMEMORATION
Airfix’s 1/72 B-25 Mitchell returns in a special package depicting one of the 16 aircraft launched from USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, to attack Tokyo as a retaliation for Pearl Harbor.
NIGHT-FIGHTING STREAK
The first of Special Hobby’s new-tool 1/72 Meteors has arrived, depicting the first night-fighting variant developed and produced by Armstrong Whitworth, rather than the type’s original manufacturer, Gloster.
POCKET ROCKET
Brengun has scaled down its well-received 1/48 P.1103 and the result is a beautifully moulded little kit, with parts presented on two styrene runners.
OLDIE BUT GOLDIE
Czech manufacturer Směr has re-boxed Heller’s 1/72 Bloch MB.210, a kit that first originated in 1967.
TULSA-BUILT TWIN
This version of ICM’s 1/48 Douglas Invader depicts World War Two machinery with the designation A-26, as opposed to the B-26 classification applied from 1948 onwards.
BOSS BIRDS
Eduard’s Bf 109G-10 has been reworked to include a late-war oil cooler and supercharger intake on a modified Runner AB to accompany the other frames, plus the ProfiPACK-series’ usual photo-etched metal fret and canopy mask set.