Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library talks about the Italeri 1/35 scale M24 Chaffee light tank. This American light tank served in WW2 and beyond. https://youtu.be/MDu_OYw-0Wg  

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library shows you his Testors / Italeri model kit of the M36B1 Jackson tank destroyer. This boxing of the kit came out in the 1980s. The M36B1 mates the Jackson turret and 90mm gun with the hull of a Sherman tank. https://youtu.be/U5vaHIaPK5Y

Season's Greetings from Mr. Alan of the Smith Hill Library! Today we look at what the youth at the Smith Hill Library have been building. Featured are an assortment of model figures, planes and cars that kids and teens built in our after school program. https://youtu.be/fSRwwO7w4zY

In this video, Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library looks at the BTR-70 armored car kit by DML (Dragon Models Limited). This kit came out in 1990, around the time East Germany rejoined West Germany. The kit is finished in East German markings. https://youtu.be/SNsF3jZWklA  

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library previews the Revell 1/72 scale Junkers F-13 kit and the F-13 with a seaplane option. The Junkers F-13 was a revolutionary design and was a major influence on passenger aircraft. This brief video shows you what's in the box of these two kits. https://youtu.be/tYP7SbCGZt0  

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library looks at the AMR 35 French light tank and its variants. He looks at two kits by two manufacturers. One is a resin AMR 35 ZT 1 by French company Blitz. The other is the AMR 35 ZT 3 tank destroyer, which is a 3-D printed kit by SS […]

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library looks inside the box of a vintage Nakajima Ki-84 Frank fighter plane by Otaki. While not as detailed as more modern model kits, these old classics are still enjoyable kits. https://youtu.be/n_GWpoYQRpw  

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library looks at the vintage AER Models kit of the T-18. The T-18 was the first tank designed and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. AER Models, from Moldova, produced this 1/35 scale model kit in the 1990s.   https://youtu.be/pH4LZMiJmcI  

Mr. Alan (of Smith Hill Library) shows you his vintage M-1 Abrams tank kit from Tamiya. He paints it for Operation Desert Shield. This is the original M-1 tank kit from around 1982. He also shows you a few Iraqi shoulder patches from the Persian Gulf War. https://youtu.be/4H1YbTbyCJc  

Mr. Alan of Smith Hill Library looks at the vintage Boeing Vertol V-107-II helicopter kit by Tamiya. This kit dates from the early 1970s and is in 1/100th scale. https://youtu.be/N13OmrYVgeE

Mr. Alan from Smith Hill Library shows you his BMP-1 model from DML (Dragon) Models. The BMP-1 was the first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle of the former Soviet Union. The BMP-1 is in use with many countries around the world. https://youtu.be/9gRbCUjHipo