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For Modellers by Modellers!
December 2015 Volume 20 Number 2
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British Super
Tank reviewed.
Germany’s First Post-War MBT:
Modelling, History, Profiles.
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Archives The Lost
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History of the
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Contains a
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Super Drawings in
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TNT Trucks & Tanks
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Objective Ponyri!
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WWII Arsenal. Panzer
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Tank Art Volume 4 A
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M Rinaldi
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Rikugun: Guide to
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Volume 2 Weapons
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L Ness
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M Rikmenspoel
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Wiking Division in 1940.
HB 380pp
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The Panther Battalion
Brandenburg 1945
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I./Pz.Rgt.26
W Ockert
The story of the Bran-
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HB 362pp
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British and
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M Wright
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Haynes Owners
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Static Model Manual
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S Antelmi
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Osprey New
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Kagero Top
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