1-144 scale models
LAV-ISH EXTRAS
Shelf Oddity’s photo-etched brass upgrade set is designed specifically to fit KP’s La-5 kit and is aimed at the more experienced modeller, both due to the parts’ size and the complexity of the bending/ folding involved.
CANADIAN SHORT-HAULER
These Decales Global markings are ideal for Airfix or Eastern Express 1/144 Boeing 737-200 kits, replicating the livery of one of Canadian airline Pacific Western’s airframes.
CREDIBLE CRUSTY
Mike Verier finds that this 'not-really-an-airliner' 1/144 Tu-134UBL Crusty-B from Zvezda builds into a faithful rendition of the Soviet aircraft.
TINY ’TOOM
Japanese firm Platz moved quickly to follow the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) retirement of its RF-4 airframes and disbanding of the 501st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron during March 2020, issuing several celebratory iterations of its 1/144 Phantom.
SPEEDY ‘WHAT-IF’
Airfix’s Concorde returns as a Vintage Classic, featuring the original 1966 scheme intended for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (which had become British Airways by the time the type entered service), although it never flew in those colours.
A FINE VINTAGE
Airfix has re-released its 1/144 HP.42 airliner, originally tooled in 1965. CHRIS CLIFFORD takes a detailed look at the kit, and shares superb period images of the type, from the Key Archive.
CROSSING FRONTIERS
Mexican firm Decales Global has produced a set of aftermarket markings providing for five of the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 single-aisle airliners flown by American company Frontier Airlines – the first of two operators to use this name.
Airfix Model World August 2021
Welcome to Airfix Model World August 2021 featuring full coverage of Airfix's newly tooled 1/72 Mosquito B/XVI, Tamiya's 1/24 McLaren Senna, Zoukei-Mura's new 1/48 F-4E Phantom II, exclusive model builds, scale modelling news, reviews and more. Read the full issue in PDF format here or dip into our reformatted online features for KeyModelWorld at your leisure.
ENGLISHMAN IN THE DESERT
Sometimes, the pleasure of modelling comes from tackling a build in a slightly different manner than usual, as Juanjo Dominguez Calvo discovered with Trumpeter’s recently tooled 1/144 Vulcan B.2.
RAF CARGO KING
If the S&M Models Handley Page Hastings is too big a proposition for you in 1/72 scale, why not plump for the delightful 1/144 version by Ukrainian firm MikroMir? CHRIS CLIFFORD reviews the latter kit of this classic RAF transport.