Contents
Issue 248 June 2016
SHIMMERING
ILLUSION
Building Kinetic’s 1:48
Mirage 2000 BG in
Greek colours
PAGE 26
MINT CONDITION
Belkit’s 1:24 WRC VW
Polo full-build
PAGE 20
COVER STORY:
PROWLING PANTHER
Tamiya’s new 1:35 Panther
ausf.D, revisited
PAGE 32
4 NEWS DESK
New kit and model product news
8 THAT’LL DO NICELY!
Completing the paintwork of Tamiya’s new 1:35
AMX-13
16 BUNDESWEHR’S BIG BRUISER
Italeri’s M109 is transformed into the M109A3G
German Army version
18 BANNED BY BALESTRE
Ebbro’s latest 1:20 release depicts the infamous Lotus 88
40 GUSTAV’S SECOND GO
Eduard’s re-engineered Bf109G-6 in 1:48
42 NEW RELEASES ACCESSORIES
New and recently issued modelling accessories
46 NEW RELEASES KITS
New full kits, reviewed
52 2089, A NEW
INTERPLANETARY FUTURE
Wild House Models’ ORCA Hover Bike, previewed
54 BOOK REVIEWS
New modelling-related titles reviewed
56 SOMETHING SPECIAL
FROM SHIBUYA
Something a little different from Japan; a Bandai
Gundam ‘Strike Freedom’
64 CONTACTS
Where to buy the products used and reviewed
in TMMI
66 THE EDITOR’S PAGE
Original examples of
the WW2 three-colour
camouflage
