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Roanoke Valley IPMS Virginia ShootOutView the full article
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This figure kit is produced by Aerobonus and is designed to be used in conjunction with several Korean War aircraft subjects or as a stand-alone figure. It’s nicely cast in 1/32 scale from a medium gray resin. The casting is crisp and clean, and contains four parts which include the main body, a head and a right and left arm. Assembly was very easy and there was no flash present on any of the castings. Representing a US Air Force mechanic on a winter flight line somewhere, the figure is dressed in typical grab found during this time period in a cold weather environment, A coat with hood and heavy gloves cover the upper torso. A baseball like cap covers the head. And the lower torso has Utility style trousers and boots. View the full review
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Originally founded in 1968, Squadron / Squadron Signal / MMD is back in business again after bankruptcy and are now based out of Ringgold, Georgia. Their web page was re-activated in January 2022 for plastic kits. A retail store was opened in 2025 at their Ringgold address and is open from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Monday through Friday. They have invited The Chattanooga Scale Modelers Club to meet at their warehouse, which occurs on the third Monday of the month. If you can’t make it, be sure to check out their YouTube channel where Brandon and guests are live every Wednesday night. Brandon Lowe and his father, Russ Lowe, re-acquired the Squadron Tools Product Line and are now marketing them once again. View the full review
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untilWe are proud to announce that we will be hosting the IPMS Region One Norreastcon 54 show, on March 20, 2027 at the Freeport Recreational Center, 130 E, Merrick Road, Freeport N.Y. 11520. The show hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM There's 57 model contest categories along with severalspecial theme awards. Our contest will be a hybrid award contest with most categories being a first,second, and third. Both the armor and figure categories will be a Gold, Silver. Bronze. Please visit our website under the Noreastcon 54 tab for updates to the contest categories, rules, registration forms, listing of both sponsors and vendors.
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About the AuthorThe following is taken from the jacket cover. Jean Paul Pallud was born in France in 1949 and studied physics at Grenoble University, graduating as a physicist engineer. Specialising in the history of the Second World War,he has worked alongside After the Battle for over 43 years, his first submission to the magazine appearing in 1979 and his last in 2022. View the full review
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The Westland Wessex was a British license-built version of the Sikorsky H-34 and in it’s HAS.3 anti-submarine version, was a capable hunter/killer and saw combat in the Falklands War, where one machine nicknamed ‘Humphrey’ seriously damaged the Argentine submarine Santa Fe, which subsequently had to be scuttled, and also rescued SAS troops from a glacier in bad weather after their helicopters had crashed. Italeri’s Wessex HAS.3 kit was released in 2013 and is a very nice kit, though it has a few issues and is lacking finesse in some areas. One such area is the mesh cover for the gearbox compartment. This compartment sits atop the Wessex’s distinctive ‘humpback,’ just under the rotor and rotor head. Quickboost labels this as an ‘engine grille,’ though as the Wessex’s engines are housed in the nose, this seems a little unlikely! View the full review
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Hasegawa first released their 1/72 B-25J in 2003 and followed up thereafter with a B-25H, both released in various boxing’s since. This welcomed kit is likely the most accurate in this scale and yet it benefits from aftermarket details. Quickboost manufacture a closed cooling flap and open cooling flap version of the cowlings. This review focuses on the open cooling flap version. Since Eduard chose to release some limited edition 1/72 B-25s with interesting decal options, precut masks and photo etch details, these replacement cowlings will fit their 1/72 Angel of Mercy, Guns Bunny and Strafer kits. In the BoxCowling parts in pairs, consisting of cowls, cooling flap rings, carb intake scoops and mounting lugs, all indexed to fit exactly with the kit engine nacelles. View the full review
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MMP was founded in 1996 by Roger Wallsgrove, to publish "Mushroom Model Magazine". This quarterly modelling magazine was developed from "Mushroom Monthly”, a club newsletter which ran from 1985 to 1995, achieving a world-wide reputation for quality articles, fearless and honest reviews, and a great sense of humor. From 1997 the magazine was produced in collaboration with Robert Peczkowski and Artur Juszczak (Stratus), which meant a big leap in print quality and design. MMP expanded into book publication in 1999 with Stratus, and since then they have built up a list of hard cover and soft cover titles on aircraft and aviation, naval, military vehicles, and military history. Stratus / MMPBooks are distributed in North America by Casemate Publications. Check out their Facebook page for additional information. This English language book, Hungarian Bomber Colours 1927-1945 Vol. View the full review
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UMM-USA has provided four versions of their Wooden Epoxy Stands: JH-S04 Wooden Epoxy Stand Durafix 12 & 180 MinutesJH-S05 Wooden Epoxy Stand BSI 5 & 10 MinutesJH-S06 Wooden Epoxy Stand BSI 20 & 30 MinutesJH-S07 Wooden Epoxy Stand BSI 15 & 130 MinutesThe stands are packaged unassembled; they are made up of 7 wooden pre-cut parts that slot together. They can be glued with either CA or White Glue. The instructions are printed on the packaging and are very straightforward. These are very useful when using Epoxy’s and help to keep them organized. The front and top parts have engravings showing the information for each epoxy. In conclusion these are handy for your work benches. Thanks go to UMM-USA for providing this kit to review and IPMS/USA for allowing me to review it for them. View the full review
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The Westland Wessex HU.5 was a British commando/utility helicopter upgraded from the Sikorsky H-34. They were also used by the Royal Navy for SAR work and I was lucky enough to spend a week with our local SAR Flight at HMS Daedalus back in 1981 as part of a work experience programme. I was taken for a number of flights including one where I played the part of a ‘survivor’, being winched up and down from the cabin. Fun times! View the full review
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Zoukei-Mura has graciously provided the IPMS Reviewer Corps with a first look at their brand new 1/32nd scale Kawasaki Ki-100-I Otsu Type 5 Fighter. Part 1 of this review looked at the box contents: Sprue-runners, decals, masks, and instructions. Part 1 can be viewed here: https://reviews.ipmsusa.org/review/kawasaki-ki-100-i-otsu-type-5-fighte… Assembly Process The instruction booklet is 75 pages of very well illustrated pictures and graphics of each step. One of the great things that impressed me about the instructions are the parts are properly named and this gives the functional operation use within the mechanical system of the airplane. Very informative and educational. View the full review
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The origin of Pen & Sword Books is closely linked with its sister company, the Barnsley Chronicle; one of the UK's oldest provincial newspapers, established in 1858, and one of the few weeklies still in private ownership. The first books published by the company were in response to public demand following of a series of articles published in the newspaper: Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks told the story of crash sites in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, and a further weekly feature on the history of two Kitchener battalions, known as the Barnsley Pals, aroused a thirst for more information. Following on from the success of those books, a number of local history paperbacks were produced along with a series of battlefield guidebooks. Battleground Europe proved immediately successful, and the company made the decision to launch a book publishing arm of the group. View the full review
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Modern soldiers today most likely wear body armor in combat to protect against bullets. That was not always the case as body armor designed to stop rounds really came about in the early 2000s. Prior to that flak jackets, designed to protect US airmen against shrapnel and explosives from German “flak” rounds, and evolved to protect US ground troops in Korea through the 1990s. Body armor hails back to antiquity and knights were the penultimate examples. View the full review
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This is a good book if you want to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict. Author Bill Norton does an incredible job of stripping away the hyperbole and myths surrounding the current events of this conflict. I thought I knew more than the average person about modern Israel history: this book has changed my thinking. This book will challenge a lot of conventional thinking, and you will quickly realize that there is no one good side, the situation is murky, muddy, and messy. Both sides have valid points and excess abuses. The title alone is worth picking up the book and is even more impressive when it is laid out that Israel is in a conflict on seven fronts over a two (and now three) year span. The seven fronts include: View the full review
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For some reason, model manufacturers have been omitting pilot figures from their kits. Many aftermarket producers have stepped in to fill the pilot seat void. Czech model manufacturer Aerobonus has a new tool release (2023) in its 1/32 Modern NATO Fighter Pilots, which the instructions state can be used for all 30 NATO member states). Like most pilot figures being released recently, this figure is standing but can easily be made to sit with some razor saw surgery. This pilot is one of five in the AeroBonus 1:32 Modern NATO Pilots: View the full review
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One of the newer suppliers for the IPMS-USA Review Corps is DXM Decals, the DXM stands for Double Excellent Models. While as the name implies, the company specializes in decals, they also produce detail parts and paint masks for airbrushing aircraft. The company produces their products for 1/72, 1/48, and 1/32 scale aircraft. The decals are printed by Cartograf, who is known for their quality work. Any modeler that has applied water-slide decals will have no issues with using this set. View the full review
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One of the newer suppliers for the IPMS-USA Review Corps is DXM Decals, the DXM stands for Double Excellent Models. While as the name implies, the company specializes in decals, they also produce detail parts and paint masks for airbrushing aircraft. The company produces their products for 1/72, 1/48, and 1/32 scale aircraft. The decals are printed by Cartograf, who is known for their quality work. Any modeler that has applied water-slide decals will have no issues with using this set. View the full review
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untilCome and see some of the best modelers in the state and their work. This will be a standard 1,2,3 scale model contest. Instead of the IPMS SLC club contest held every other year, we are moving to a statewide contest that involves all of the clubs and organizations in the area. Everyone is welcome. Location is at the Western Sports Park in Farmington UT. If you know the area, this is across the highway from Lagoon. So go enjoy some 'Frightmares' after the event. More details can be found at https://ipmsslc.org/contest-info/ Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026. Time: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Location: Western Sports Park, Bldg. 4 151 S1100 W Farmington, Utah 84025 Clubs involved: IPMS/SLC, NUSM, UMAG This is a new venue that will have more room for vendors, etc. and with an emphasis on encouraging modelers from the entire state of Utah and beyond to participate, the venue is more central to both IPMS/Salt Lake City and Northen Utah Scale Modelers. In addition to the contest modelers will have a chance to visit Dick Engar’s Scale Model Museum on Friday night October 9 at 535 East 500 South in Bountiful, not far from the contest venue, where an auction will take please consisting of various unbuilt kits, particularly in 1/48 scale thanks to a recent donation. You can have dinner on your own and convene at the museum at 7:00pm. We will also have Vendor Tables available in the venue and these are available first come first serve at a very economical price: $30.00 per table if paid prior to September 1. Money talks, which means no table will be reserved for anyone until we have the money in hand. After Sept. 1 the fee will be $35.00 per table. We will have more room so prospective vendors can pay for more than one table at the same rate if they wish. If you want to reserve a tableyou can contact the vendor coordinator, Rob Humphrey at 801-915-1842 andcan pay via Venmo by contacting Cameron Corless at wasatchmodeler@gmail.com.
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During the latter part of World War 2, as it lost its iron grip on the skies, Germany began to rely more and more on antiaircraft guns and weapons as its first line of defense against marauding Allied aircraft. What this meant in practical terms is that they had to range far and wide to find suitable vehicles to create mobile mounts for all sorts of weaponry, putting them on virtually anything that could move and handle the weight. Of course, eventually this expedient rigging became unsustainable, but not without cost to the allies. View the full review
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The non-profit UK based group known as the Great War Aviation Society publishes their journal, Cross & Cockade International, four times a year. Issues are available in English as printed [Softbound, A4 (8.27” x 11.69”), 80 pages plus a centerfold, as well as digital copies (or both). A new magazine, Contact!, is now available in both print and digital download. Society also provides a free newsletter (sign up on their website) and occasionally publish WWI themed books like the Sopwith Dolphin monograph, which I reviewed earlier for the IPMS-USA. This UK Journal is the sister of the US Journal, Over The Front. The Great War Aviation Society also hosts a lecture series available through Zoom. If interested, you will need to register early as the call is limited in attendance. View the full review
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Coverage of the 2026 IPMS Nationals - Automotive, Sci-fi and MiscellaneousView the full article
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untilPlease join us for the 2027 Sping Show by IPMS Seattle. This is the IPMS/USA Pacificn Northwest Region 7 show. This year the show is hosted by Sprue Man Group. The Spring Show is one of the largest model contests in the US with 1,267 contest entries in 2023. Doors open at 09:00am Contest registration closes at 12:00 noon Awards at 3:30pm See the website for contest entry forms, categories, and rules. There will be 80 vendor tables stacked high with kits, tools, paints, books, and accessories. Our raffle will be bigger than ever with hundreds of kits.
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untilThe CoMMiES will be hosting the IPMS region 10 Regional on April 3rd and 4th, 2027. This event will be held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 15200 W. 6th. Ave, Golden, Colorado. Details about the theme, special wards, seminars, prizes, etc, will be posted here and on our Facebook page in the coming weeks.
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This is part of a series of books by Helion on Technology and War. The book is unique in that on many of the pages they have printed bar codes that can be used to view online videos. This is a great idea, and I loved the ability to watch the videos as I read the book. This book covers the growth and use of Combat cameras from World War two up to 1991, it is lavishly illustrated with many great pictures, many of which are stunning. The book has a lot of content which provides a lot of history and background to the camera unit and the way they worked and development the use of cameras in the US Air Force. It was interesting to see the involvement of Hollywood In the early days of the program. Also, how technology and its uses grow in war time and in peace time. View the full review
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New Review: Lead Wire, Three profiles and Thicknesses
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Produced by UMM-USA (Unique Master Models-USA), these three shapes are part of a larger catalog that contains an extensive number of profiles and sizes made from extruded lead. The shapes and various sizes are useful to the modeler in a variety of applications. I’ve been using the Round Lead Wire (RLW) 0.2 as vertical railing sections for quite a few years. The Half Round lead wire (HRLW) and Flat Lead Wire (FLW), are all shapes that are nicely extruded and have the same profile dimension throughout with measurements bearing out the high quality of the extrusion process. View the full review
