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TINY ’TOOM
Japanese firm Platz moved quickly to follow the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) retirement of its RF-4 airframes and disbanding of the 501st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron during March 2020, issuing several celebratory iterations of its 1/144 Phantom.
MINI-BLOCH
Having delighted modellers with its gorgeous 1/48 MB.152, Dora Wings has scaled down the mouldings for an equally impressive 1/72 offering.
SPEEDY ‘WHAT-IF’
Airfix’s Concorde returns as a Vintage Classic, featuring the original 1966 scheme intended for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (which had become British Airways by the time the type entered service), although it never flew in those colours.
BOOTY COLLECTION
This is the second volume of Abteilung 502’s treatise on materiel captured from Iraqi forces during January and February 1991 (commonly known as the First Gulf War).
MUSTANG UPDATED
Intended initially as an updated and expanded edition of an earlier volume, MMP’s Mustang Rediscovered evolved into a much more comprehensive study of later P-51 variants, and includes the photo-reconnaissance F-6D/K.
LONG-LIVED BATTLECRUISERS
While many pre-World War One dreadnoughts were upgraded significantly in the inter-war period, few were changed as much as the four Japanese Kongō-class battlecruisers (Kongō, Hiei, Kirishima and Haruna), which were reconstructed extensively.
CURRENT STATUS STUDY
Known officially as the Republic of China, Taiwan has a fascinating military history, with war with the People’s Republic of China and continuing tensions between the states. Its Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) is the subject of Harpia’s new book, which having been published in summer 2021, is the most up-to-date study of the subject available.
FRIEDRICH PLANS
Modellers with Messerschmitt Bf 109F kits will appreciate Kagero’s TopDrawings publication, which provides a selection of scale plans, colour profiles and detail diagrams for this sub-type.
WACKY WEAPONS
“Necessity is the mother of invention”, as the saying goes, and this is particularly true during wartime, when operational needs drive massive changes.