IPMS/USA Book Review: AFV Modeller Publications: AFV Modeller #44

AFV Modeller Publications

AFV Modeller #44, Jan/Feb 2009

Reviewed By Mark Aldrich, IPMS# 39295

MSRP: $8.65
Website: www.afvmodeller.com

If you are not up on the latest issues, the dollar is on the rise against the pound. If everything is right in the world, that means you currently save almost $8.00 per issue over the cost of these EXCELLENT magazines. The subscription cost is still almost $70.00 for a year. These magazines follow a standard plan that I have become accustomed to. Every issue usually contains three or four models, a real-life armored subject and the latest armor issue releases. The cover of this issue caught my eye as a love all recovery vehicles and those based on the venerable T-55 are always unique. AFV Modeler has started a new series, "Sherman Up Close" that will look at different variants of the Sherman tank. The first one is a M4A1 preserved at the National Museum of Americans in Wartime.

This issue contains the following articles:

IMR – T-55 based combat engineer vehicle.
Stug Mineroller – Post war mineroller converted from a Stug III.
Back on Track – Canadian M-113 TLAVs in real time photographs.
Combat Support – M113A3 TLAV built from Best value Models.
Sherman Up Close M4A1 – Real vehicle photographs.
Keeping Track – The latest and greatest kits currently available.
A Photographic Memory – 1/72 SdKfz 232 incident.

The Stug III mineroller was a neat conversion piece. The TLAV kit was neat and the sprocket was very weird looking. The SdKfz 232 was an interesting diorama constructed from a few photographs the builder had found on the internet. This is another great issue and definitely would have been bought at the local hobby shop. I would like to thank AFV Modeller for the review sample and IPMS/USA for a place to post this review for others to see and read. If you are a tread head, like me, then this is a magazine for you.