Schiffer Publishing Possum Clover & Hades P-38J 475th Fighter Group WWII

The epic story of one of the highest scoring fighter units in the southwest Pacific. Aces included McGuire, Loisel, MacDonald, Roberts and Bong.

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Tamiya Model Magazine Issue 320 June 2022

20 THEY COME ATNIGHT, MOSTLY…Hobbyboss’s 1:48 MesserschmittMe 262B-1a/U1 nightfightercomes out of the shadows 12 GULF PHWOARR!Alpha Models McLaren 720S in 1:24 28 DIAL MFOR MARDERTamiya’s 1:35 Sd.Kfz.139Marder III, revisited 4 NEWS...

Military illustrated Modeller Issue 129 June 2022

4 NEWSWhat’s happening in modelling andaviation6 REFERENCEP-40N Warhawk Close-Up16 PREVIEWArma Hobby 1:72 Mustang Mk.IIICOVER STORY18 PACIFIC HARASSERPart OneTrumpeter’s 1:32 P-40M Warhawk byBrett Green34 TORA! TORA! TORA!Part...

Model Military International Issue 195 July 2022

REGULARSp 4 NEWSWhat’s new in the world of militarymodellingp 52 FIGURESNews and latest releases in the 1:35figure worldp 54 INCOMINGAccessories, model supplies and morep 56 SMALL SCALENews and new releases in 1:72 andsmallerp 58 BOOKSMilitary and...

Model Airplane International Issue 203 June 2022

REGULARSP04 – NEWSLINEP06 – COMMENTP65 – NEXT ISSUEP66 – FINAL THOUGHTS… REVIEWSP.8 TRANSFER LISTChoices, choices – what decals will you chose tobuild something different?P.10 IN PRINTWhat books will inspire you this...

How to Build Tamiya Motorcycles

Our new book by resident expert on Tamiya Model Magazine Keith Bristow brings together a wealth of motorcycle kit building techniques to show you how to achieve the very best results for your project for all types of machines from road to racing, being...

How to Build The 1:35 Leopard Family

How To Build The Leopard Family In 1:35 is a comprehensive guide to modelling this famous vehicle in its many forms. From battle tanks to recovery vehicles, homeland protectors, to battle-hardened veterans, you’ll find much to enjoy and inspire...

How to Build Tamiya Armour Kits

Though the modelling world is awash with an incredible variety of military vehicle kits from a huge number of different companies, one stands head and shoulders above the others in terms of originality, buildability and fun. That company is Tamiya, who...

How to Build Tamiya 1:35 Steel Wheeled Tiger

A New and revised edition of the ultimate guide to building the Tiger I Steel Wheeled version by Angus Creighton. The new revised edition includes: Early-batch Sturmtiger, using Tamiya’s 1:35 kit with factory zimmerit, ModelKasten...

How to Build Revell's Messerschmitt BF109 G-6

How to Build series for the new Revell 1:32 Messerschmitt BF109 G-6. This book shows various builds of the model by our team of experts including Brett Green of Hyperscale and Marcus Nicholls of TMMI.

How to Build Tamiya's 1:32 Corsair F4U-1 Vol

When Tamiya released their 1:32 scale Spitfire Mk.IXc in 2009, they set a new standard for plastic model kits. Each model since then has seen incremental improvements. Just when you think the series can’t get any better, Tamiya goes and proves you...

How to build Tamiya's Aircraft

How To Build Tamiya’s Aircraft, is the latest addition to this popular series of modelling titles and as such, offers the enthusiast plenty of inspirational builds, hints, tips and techniques to enjoy. Within the book’s 84 pages you will find features on...

How to Build Revell's Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I

When Tamiya released their 1:32 scale Spitfire Mk.IXc in 2009, they set a new standard for plastic model kits. As one of the most popular subjects in the history of scale modelling, we should not be surprised to find that Tamiya has now released an...

How to Build Tamiya's 1:32 Spitfire Book

Although initially conceived as a stop-gap measure, the Spitfire Mk.IX (and the essentially similar Mk.XVI) eventually became the most numerous of all Spitfire variants with more than 7,000 delivered to the RAF, the VVS and other Allied air forces...

How to Build the Tamiya 1:32 Mosquito FB.V1

The definitive guide to building the much anticipated Tamiya 1:32 Mosquito FB.VI by Brett Green.

How to Build Airfix Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B

The complete guide to building the amazing Airfix 1:24 scale Hawker Typhoon, written by Brett Green of HyperScale and Model Military fame. This new book features an exhaustive step-by-step guide to construction with modelling contributions by James...

How to Build Tamiya's 1:32 Corsair F4U-1A-1D

When Tamiya released their 1:32 scale Spitfire Mk.IXc in 2009, they set a new standard for plastic model kits. Each model since then has seen incremental improvements. Just when you think the series can’t get any better, Tamiya goes and proves you...

How to Build Tamiya 1:48 Spitfire Mk.1

When Tamiya released their 1:32 scale Spitfire Mk.IXc in 2009, they set a new standard for plastic model kits. As one of the most popular subjects in the history of scale modelling, we should not be surprised to find that Tamiya has now released an...

How to Build Tamiya Fairey Swordfish Revise

A full colour, high quality guide describing in great detail the building, detailing and painting of Tamiya’s stunning 1:48 Fairey Swordfish. Inside you’ll find over fifty pages of clear, easy to follow photographs of the model being constructed plus...

How to Build Beaufighter Book

The 60 page book includes information on: Building the basic model; The six detailed versions of the Beaufighter; Details of production variations; Weathering; and many other handy hints and tips!

Squadron Signal Book - F-111 Aardvark In Action

Squadron Signal Publications continues it's new book releases from the new Georgia Squadron location with this revised and expanded 88 page full color F-111 Aardvark in Action.  This book is written by author David Doyle. Illustrations are done by...

David Doyle Books - Chevrolet G-506 Chevy 4x4 in US Service - Hard Cover

David Doyle Books - Chevrolet G-506 Chevy 4x4 in US Service - Softcover

Ginter Books - Consolidated-Vultee XB-46

The Consolidated Vultee (Convair) XB-46 was a four-jet medium bomber built to a 1944 USAAF requirement. It was the largest of the four different bombers built to this requirement. The other three were the North American XB-45, the Boeing XB-47 and the...

Ginter Books - Lockheed F-94 Starfire

The F-94 was developed from the Lockheed TF-80C/T-33 two seat trainer version of the famed P/F-80 Shooting Star. It was redesigned around a afterburning engine and a Hughes nose mounted radar system to become a interim all-weather night fighter until...

Ginter Books - Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

The Curtiss XP-55 Ascender was a tailless swept-wing WWII pusher fighter design born out by the USAAC 1940 fighter competition. The USAAC was looking for a fighter to counter the threat of the German Bf-109 and the Japanese Zero and replace the obsolete...

Ginter Books - Consolidated Vultee XP-81

Consolidated Vultee XP-81 first Air Corp's fighter designed around two gas turbine engines. This was the USAF answer to Ryan Fireball.

Ginter Books - North American F-86H Sabre Hog

The F-86 Sabre is well know for its success during the Korean conflict. The F-86H was built in relatively small numbers (475), its service with front line squadrons of the USAF was brief but it had a long service with the Air National Guard. It service...

Ginter Books - F-86 D/K/L /\NG/Foreign

Air Force Legends Number 212 is the third volume in the North American F-86D/K/L Sabre Dog series and covers Air National Guard and foreign usage of the F-86D/K/Ls. Volume two, Air Force Legends Number two, covered US Air Force F-86D/L operators. Volume...

Ginter Books - Douglas C-124 Globemaster II

The answer to a need for larger and faster commercial and military airlifters was provided by, among others, the Douglas aircraft company with its military C-74 and C-124 cargo planes. The C-124 evolved from an earlier Douglas design, the C-74...

Ginter Books - McDonnell XF-88 VOODOO

A silver streak flashes over the Air Force Base at Muroc, California. The slim, shark-bellied McDonnell XF-88 is unveiled as another advance in America's air mastery. The twin-jet penetration fighter is capable of operating deep inside enemy...

Ginter Books - Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass

In 1946, the Navy embarked on the development of the Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass, a high-performance, carrier-based jet fighter that would be equal, if not superior, to any land-based fighter. It was tailless for compactness and weight reduction and...

Ginter Books - McDonnell F2H-3/4 Big Banjo

One of the first aircraft Edward Heinemann designed Single-seat all-weather fighter. The F2H-3 was the last significant alteration. The fuselage was extended by 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) to increase internal fuel load to 1,102 gal (4,172 l). The detachable...

Ginter Books - Curtiss SOC Seagull

The Curtiss SOC Seagull was a United States single-engine scout observation biplane aircraft, designed by Alexander Solla of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation for the United States Navy. The aircraft served on battleships and cruisers in a seaplane...

Ginter Books - Grumman JF/J2F Duck

The JF/J2F "Duck" was one of those military workhorses moving around in the background before and during WWII which did a tremendous job but never got the publicity of its' more glamorous teammates. Some said the Duck could be more aptly named the "Ugly...

Ginter Books - Lockheed R6O/R6V Constitution

The Lockheed R6V Constitution was a large, propeller-driven, double-decker transport aircraft developed in the 1940s by Lockheed as a long-range, high capacity transport and airliner for the U.S. Navy. The first time I saw this aircraft was in a photo of...

Ginter Books - Vought TA-7C/EA-7L, A-7K Twosair

In 1972, Vought modified the first TF-41-powered A-7E (BuNo 156801) as a tandem, two-seat combat trainer demonstrator. The two-seater flew for the first time on August 19, 1972, piloted by John Konrad. After demonstrating the two-seat Corsair II at...

Ginter Books - Curtiss XBTC-2 Eggbeater

Curtiss Model 98 XBTC-2 was designed for a request for a single seat dive/torpedo bomber in 1942. A Wright R 3350 with a four bladed prop should power the -1, a P&W R-4360 with 3-bladed contra props the -2. Work on both variants was slow, to other...

Ginter Books - Bell HSL Helicopter

Tenco TT-1 Pinto was nick-named "Tinker Toy developed as a private venture, the Temco Pinto primary jet trainer made its first flight March 26, 1956. The navy ordered 14 as TT-1 to conduct a full-scale study on the feasibility of using a jet aircraft for...

Ginter Books - USN/USMC Single-Seat F9F Cougar Squadrons

This book has all the Squadron and their history in the USN, USMC and USNR. It has the history, photos, patch (crest) and the ships and the shore stations they served. With photos of the way they were painted and stores. Also photos of the first time 4...

Ginter Books - Grumman F9F-6P/8P Photo-Cougar

Next to the helicopter the photo aircraft are among the less glamorous aircraft abroad ship but are some of the most important because with out them the ship would be blind. F9F-6P/8P photo Cougar replaced the F9F-5P photo Panther in two Navy and 2 USMC...

Ginter Books - Boeing XF8B-I

The F/A 18 Hornet was not the first Naval Aircraft designed to meet all the Navy needs. The XF8B-1 was another Boeing called it the "Five-in-one" fighter (fighter, interceptor, dive bomber, torpedo or horizontal bomber). This aircraft had the ability of...

Ginter Books - Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

Ginter Books - Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak

"Crimson test Tube", "Supersonic Test Tube" and "Flying Stove Pipe" were just some of the nicknames bestowed upon the D-558-1 over the years. Skystreak was the popular name given by the Douglas Aircraft Company. The Skystreak, sponsored by the U.S. Navy...

Ginter Books - Douglas A-4E/FB USN Skyhawk

The A-4 Skyhawk was the workhorse of the Vietnam War. It flew more strike missions than any other Navy aircraft and its losses in combat amounted to 37% of all Navy combat losses. The Navy lost 195 A-4s out of 530 total losses. The next highest losses...

Ginter Books - Kaier Fleetwings XBTK-1

The Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1 was initially designed to meet a 1943 Navy requirement for a "single-seat carrier based high performance dive bomber." As was the normal war-time practice, design studies were requested from companies without a major...

Ginter Books - Grumman F11F-1F Supertiger

The J79 powered Mach 2 Supertiger derivative of the F-11F was developed into a world class performer and was marketed as such. It impressed the foreign aviators who tested it so much that it became their first choice. That is until the...

Ginter Books - Grumman F11F Tiger

The full story of the Grumman Tiger and Super Tiger has only been told in part by non-Grumman aviation buffs and historians who wrote from second or third-hand information. Although it is over forty years later, this compendium has been written and...

Ginter Books - Curtiss SC-1/2 Seahawk

Ginter Books - Smokin' Tigers, RVAH-I

On 1 Nov 1955, Heavy Attack Squadron ONE (HATRON ONE or VAH-1) was established and temporarily based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida. On the same day, CDR P.F. Stevens assumed the command of the squadron. He was a highly decorated...

Ginter Books - VQ-2 From Bats to Rangers