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AFV Modeller |
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AFV Modeller Magazine #23 |
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Reviewed By Jack Bruno , #25313 |
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MSRP: $16.00 USD To this armor modeler, the anticipation of getting this review sample was unbearable because it contained just about every armor model that I had just completed or is still on the workbench. The cover photo of the Tristar Panzer IV Ausf D is enough for me to start getting white hair as opposed to my "distinguished" gray. David Parker presents us with 8 pages of glorious color featuring a "D" in the Afrika Korp scheme. There are outstanding photos of the build and subsequent replacement parts that will give modelers ideas for years to come. The finish and figures is very top notch and this is one keeper of an article even if you want to build the old Tamiya offering, which I have on the bench alongside the SdKfz 222. Article number two features a derelict Dragon King Tiger (Porsche) with two children straddling the 88 Gun. Dave Parker again has been a busy man! The zimmerit technique is doable for a putz like me and the painting and weathering a simple joy to look at. As always, detailed pictures of the build and finish are included in this interesting change of venue diorama. Funny, I just finished a King Tiger (Porsche) for review. Another favorite kit of mine gets the full-blown detail treatment. Again, a kit I have already started. Reidar Morten Syvertsen gives the Tamiya Matilda a makeover! Another 8 color pages of instruction and photos. There is a lot of talent and education between these pages! As Reidar points out, it's amazing what reference and basic modeling skills can accomplish with an older kit. The three-tone paint job is very well done and gives you an option over the azure blue normally seen. Have a ball with this one guys! The Extreme Detail subject for this issue is the M51 Israeli Sherman. Photos covering the outside and interior of this lion of the desert. Again, very well done and hard reference for the Academy or Dragon kits. Next in this issue is the Dragon small scaled British Challenger II. The scheme is representative of Prairie Eagle, 1999 Exercise. Amazing camouflage, utilizing netting is a feature of this little beauty, and one of these days I'm going to have to get into smaller scale just for the prodding I get in between these pages. Very cool tank by modeler David Bilek. As the closer, Graeme Newman presents an AFV Club leFH 18 Howitzer in a diorama setting, with figures and buildings of the push to Stalingrad in the summer of 1942. (That was a movie, right?) It is very well done, and it's nice to see artillery get some exposure too! I've come to enjoy early war armor modeling very much in the last few years and I think when you see this piece, you will too. Overall, I consider this to be the best issue that I've seen yet of AFV Modeller. Take my advice and don't walk, run to your favorite supplier and get it soon. Thank you again to John Noack for throwing it my way and thank you, AFV Modeller, for the review sample. |
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