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Coming Soon From Montex by Jay Laverty Montex have proven themsleves to be the true freind of the large scale modeller and are keeping us in plenty of interesting schemes for a good combination of new release "mainstream" kits with a broad appeal, while still managing to provide something for those loft dwelling rareities with crumbling ageing and useless decals. This latest batch of new releases keep up on that theme with a good combination of the two. First up we start with what can be considered
a "mainstream topic, with K32093
Next are two sets for the Me-262, which will be equally at home on the new "all singing and all dancing" Trumpeter kit, or the older Hasegawa kit, which the Chris "the Ripper" Novak showed us recently can be built into a lovely model. K32094 features two schemes you can see here, one really interesting with the squiggles from 1/KG.54 and one fairly standard scheme from 3/KG.51 "Kommando Schenck". K32095 gives us the famous "Black
X" that now resides in Australia, and Batels "Edelweiss"
from 1/KG.51
I think it is safe to say that most Lysander kits in the Matchbox packaging will have decals that are nearing useless stage or have gone well beyond that. We have two sets of masks here for Lysanders, both a good mix of interesting and unusual shemes. K32096 features a Finnish Airforce Mk.III, along with a Polish Air Force Mk.III. While the Polish aeroplane adorns the standard RAF shceme, the Finnish one is a very unusual option, that you will not see alot of. K32097 features Target tugs, with a brilliantly painted RCAF bird, as well as one from the USAAF. We'll call this one "North American Lizzies".
Now we have a couple that I got very excited about when I saw them, and they will have some broad appeal in my opinion. Not least of all because of Radu's stunning and inspirational build going on "In the Works" at the moment. http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=8922 I am a big fan of the Ki-61 and these are some very good markings spread across these two sheets. K32098 focuses on two aeroplanes from 244 Sentai, a home defence squadron that took on the B-29's that were pounding Japan into submission. I think the natural metal scheme has a beauty in it's simplicity that makes it stand alonside the intricately painted ones. K32099 has one plane from 244 Sentai, and the other hails from 68 Sentai. Two intense schemes that will require allot of patient airbrushing that will pay off big style.
And last up sees us return to the more "Mainstream" and readily available kits with the magnificent Hasegawa Ki-84, although these markings could find their way onto that old but nice Doyusha kit if you wanted. K32100 features on of the "special attack" schemes with the artisitcally painted tail markins that make the Hayates such a striking model, along with a simpler, yet slightly more colourful option that was based in Korea All in all I would say this is a fantastic
batch of releases from Montex, and they will be available by the end
of June early July. Combining interesting choices, with useful subjects,
and filling a gap in the market so to speak, Darek at Montex have
really impressed me with these choices, and I am confident the modelling
community at Large will reward him for his stellar efforts!
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