Reduced-size references
HAYNES’ ICONS series has been expanded with a selection of manuals based on preserved machinery; its latest selection covers the Flying Scotsman, Tiger tank and HMS Victory and is certain to be popular with modellers.
Army close-air support
FANS OF World War Two Japanese aviation are being treated to a batch of releases, such as Wingsy Kits’ delightful 1/48 Ki-51 Sonia attack/reconnaissance aircraft.
Multi-purpose motifs
A TRIO of waterslide decal packs has arrived from Spanish firm Green Stuff World, containing street art, posters and labelling for a range of applications.
Ticket please
MODELLERS HAVE waited patiently for MiniArt’s hotly anticipated 1/35 B-Type bus, which has arrived in Military Omnibus guise
High-speed suppression
WHILE ICM’S fighter and reconnaissance/bomber MiG-25s have delighted modellers, there was a notable gap in the single-seat versions – the BM defence suppression airframe – which has now been addressed.
At the armoured tip
BEST-SELLING author Adam Makos’s Spearhead, which tells the true story of US Army tank gunner Clarence Smoyer during late World War Two, has just been released in a paperback edition.
First horseless carriage
ICM SURPRISED many at this year’s Nuremberg Toy Fair byunveiling of a 1/24 Benz Patent-Motorwagen 1886.
Foreign fishbed flyers
EDUARD’S SPLENDID 1/72 MiG-21 is now available as the PFM variant, also known by its NATO nickname Fishbed-F.
Thoroughbred packages
BULLSEYE MODEL Aviation has produced a bumper selection of decals for Eduard’s newly tooled 1/48 Mustangs, with four ‘Yoxford Boys’ packs depicting RAF Leighton, Suffolk-based 357th Fighter Group machines.
NUREMBERG NEWS
At several first glance, notable there absences were at this year’s Nuremberg Toy Fair, including Hasegawa, Kinetic and Takom, but these were balanced by the first-time presence of firms such as Copper State Models, SMER and Dora Wings.
Clear vision
SPECIAL HOBBY has embarked on a new venture with its Special Mask sets, providing an easy solution for modellers owning the firm’s 1/72 Dassault Super Mystère or Saab Viggen kits.
Italian nieuports
LATVIAN manufacturer Copper State Models has added another arrow to its modelling quiver with the first in a series of decals for its splendid 1/32 Nieuport XVII
