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should you decide to replicate the builds for your own if this early fi ghter to a tee. Ivan Jensen Taylor is the
collection. We certainly hope that you enjoy it as it man in the saddle this month, offering a detailed step
develops. by step look at the kit and how to build and paint it.
Along similar lines, we are hoping to publish issues His feature begins on page 46.
that contain small collections of similar models. When Alongside Ivan’s ‘262, we also have Haris Ali’s
Nigel Poole announced that he was building Kinetic’s spectacular take on the Wingnut Wings Halberstadt
1:48 F-104G Starfi ghter, I was reminded of my TF- Cl.II. Some time in the making, this build is as close
104 and then when Revell’s delicate 1:72 kit arrived, to perfect as we have seen for a long time, the
it seemed sensible to wrap them all up together to incredibly complex fi nish of the original testing the
offer a small collection of different kits in one issue author’s skills to the limit, but boy, did he nail it! Haris
of the magazine. All being well, those models will tells the story of his build in this issue, with his feature
feature in the March issue and we hope that they will beginning on page 60.
be the fi rst of a number of similar groups over the Alongside our two 1:32 kit builds, we also have
coming months. What those groups will be is hard to a couple of smaller, less complex for you to enjoy,
list at this point, but one may well be the F-14 Tomcat Huw Morgan’s wonderful dual build of the Minicraft
given that so many new kits are due to be released of C-130 Hercules family and then Mike Williams
it over the next few months! reacquaintance with the Airfi x 1:48 P-51D Mustang.
The Messerschmitt Me 262 is one of the world’s Both of these features show that careful construction
most famous aircraft, so it comes as no surprise and fi nishing can result in attractive models for your
to see it replicated so often by the world’s kit collection, even if as seen here, the kits are built from
manufacturers. This month we take a look at the the box!
latest kit to appear, that being in 1:32 from Revell.
Following on from their wonderful two-seat night- This then is the February issue of Model Airplane
fi ghter, their depiction of the A-1/A-2 fi ghter bomber is International. We hope that you enjoy it and that
every bit as impressive, capturing the gorgeous lines we see you next month. ■

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