No. 20 by Mats Hammar ”Pity about the car, but look at these track impressions!” This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in October 2000.
Magazine
Small Scale Aircraft Straight From the Box: Tamiya 1/72 Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 by Anders Isaksson Background It was time for a small project that would build fast and let me end up with the satisfaction of actually completing a model. That was the idea and the Tamiya 72nd scale Fw-190D-9 […]
Ordinary For a Change
Superdetailing Airfix 1/72 Avro Vulcan by Jan Forsgren The Avro Vulcan was developed in parallel with other British bombers of the V-series and put into service in 1957. The iconic delta wing made the Vulcan to an one-of-a-kind sight in flight and gained it a nickname Tin Triangle. When the […]
Tin Triangle
by Frank Spahr Somehow I find all kinds of modelling subjects attractive, and ships are no exception. This is my Revell Trinity lighthouse ship. My modifications were limited to detail parts, which naturally were quite overscale in the kit. I replaced the kit railings, added some self-made oars and rigging. […]
Trinity Lighthouse Ship
By Dan Kut additional photos by Robert Lundin A couple of years ago someone on this site’s discussion forum asked for cockpit pictures of the Swedish Skyraider target tug. That somehow dwelled in the corner of my mind, waiting for the perfect moment to strike… Then when a friend of […]
Douglas Skyraider in Detail
No. 22 by Mats Hammar ”But my model cabinet was full…” This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in December 2000.
Arne (the Model Builder)
The Piaggio P.108 B of the Regia Aeronautica by Peter Ibes, IPMS Netherlands This article was first published in ‘Modelbouw in Plastic’ – a magazine of IPMS Netherlands . Used with permission of the Editor. The Piaggio P.108 B was the only heavy four-engine bomber to see service with the […]
Italian Heavy
by Tim Campbell The P-51 – in all its variants – has long been a favourite aircraft of mine, ever since building the 1/72 Matchbox P-51D Dooleybird as a boy. I had watched a wonderful display by a P-51A at last year’s Paris/Le Bourget airshow, and when I saw the […]
Building Accurate Miniatures’ P-51A Mustang
A short presentation of the P-40 diorama by Anders Isaksson This is my diorama of a Curtiss P-40E Warhawk, situated somewhere in the Far East in 1943. With its engine panels removed the aircraft receives routine maintenance from two mechanics. Construction The P-40 is Revell’s old kit from in 1/32nd […]
Warhawk of the Far East
by Martin Waligorski The Wimpy The Wellington was the most important British bomber of the initial war period. Designed to meet the requirements of Air Ministry specification B.9/32, the prototype first flew in June 1936. Deliveries to RAF bomber squadrons began in 1939. Commonly named Wimpy by its crews (after […]
Vickers Wellington Mk. X in Detail
No. 23 by Mats Hammar ”I never thought I would be studying cobblestone patterns before Arne started to scratchbuild his own.” This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in January 2001.
Arne (the Model Builder)
Converting the Fw 190 D-9 to D-11 by Ingemar Caisander 1/48 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-11 The D-11 variant of the venerable Focke-Wulf 190 was designed as a much-improved low-level interceptor fighter refinement of the ”Langnasen Dora”, incorporating many of the features found on the powerful Ta 152. Based on rebuilt […]
Building the Late ’Dora’
by Robert Blaschke additional text by Martin Waligorski The ”Forgotten” Mig The Mig-19 (NATO code Farmer) was the first mass-produced supersonic fighter of the Soviet Air Force. The prototype first flew in 1953, the aircraft entering production in 1955. Farmer was the primary fighter of the Russian air force during […]
Mikoyan & Gurevich Mig-19 Farmer in Detail
Building Tamiya’s chrome-plated MiG-15 bis by Ingemar Caisander This article has been first published at www.hyperscale.com. Reproduced here with author’s permission. Following the end of the war, blueprints for many advanced German aircraft designs ended up in Russia where they were thoroughly examined and evaluated. One of the most […]
Can it be Easier than This?
text by Martin Waligorski model by Andreas Bennwik The 54mm Little Corporal Napoleon Bonaparte, a French general, First Consul, and emperor of the French, is still one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. His revolutionary influence over warfare, military organization and training is […]