Plastic Ship Modeler: Issue 21
By: Shane Jenkins
Well the latest PSM has popped through the mailbox, and what a good issue it
is. This issue contains the following:
- More of Chris Drage's excellent models - this time Chris has done a selection
of WEM's 1/700 Flower class corvettes & shown what can be done with this excellent
little kit. You can see the full article at WEM's website.
- Ray Bean tackles the resin 1/700 Jim Shirley kit of the USS Chicago
- Falk Pletscher gives us a walkaround of the Krivak I ASW frigate Druzhny.
This is an excellent reference for those who wish to build the Skywave kit,
I wish I had these photos when I built my Krivak II a couple of years ago.
Figures that good refs would come out after I've finished the kit.
- Falk also tackles the 1/700 HP-Models kit of the Schleswig-Holstein.
- Dave Judy builds Flagship Models 1/35 resin kit of the Phalanx 20mm CIWS.
- Dan Jones updates his article from the test issue of PSM on the Japanese
Escort ships of WWII. There was some talk about the repetition of articles
in PSM - this I feel is a legitimate use of the article, since the test issue
(put out in 1993) was a very limited run to test the viability of the magazine
and as such does not really count in PSM's run.
- There is also a selection of ship models from the 1999 IPMS(USA) Nats held
at Orlando last year.
- Fisherman in peace and war - this short article covers fishing boats used
by the Germans, Italians and British, with plans. I hope to see more on this
topic in future issues.
Plus all the usual columns:
- Navinfotel by Ray Bean - current naval news
- One to One Hundred by Paul Jacobs - This deals with all the latest news
on the 1/1200/1250 range of miniatures.
- There's also a new column by Joe D'amato (of JAG Collective fame) on research
on the net, very informative.
- Book reviews Letter's page.
All in all, I can heartily recommend this issue of Plastic Ship Modeller.