US Field Safe
By: Hauler Scale: 1/48
Item no: HLX48394 Price: €7.82
Web: www.hauler.cz
Hauler’s 1/48 Field Safe accessory is a surprisingly detailed representation of a standard design employed by US Army forces on combat operations, so is perfect for diorama builders or adding visual interest to quarterscale models. While the armoured casing is supplied in resin (the door and combination are separate cast components), an interior shelving section is provided in the form of photo-etched brass. While this involves careful bending and fiddly installation into the cast casing, the appearance is superb.
F-16XL/F-CK-1 Prototype Pitot Tube & AOA Probes
By: Master Model Scale: 1/72
Item no: AM-72-131 Price: £5.20
Web: www.master-model.pl
Pitot tubes on prototype aircraft are complex items, with various protrusions and vanes to allow developers to record how the aircraft performs; as such, they are challenging to replicate in styrene form. Master Model’s turned brass and photoetched brass replacement for either Monogram’s F-16XL or Kiddyland’s F-CK-1 provides the main pitot in the former material and the attitude vanes in the latter – modellers will just need to drill a hole in the radome. Three angleof-att…
