Volume 5 – 2001

by Burkhard Domke, www.b-domke.de text by Martin Waligorski photos by Burkhard Domke Lockheed’s Magnum Opus In relatively few years after its public appearance in the Gulf War, the F-117 has arguably become the best-known shape in the skies besides great oldtimers like the Concorde and the Jumbo Jet. Almost twenty […]

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk in Detail

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R11 Nachtjäger  by Ricardo Dacoba   History During the initial war years, the main equipment of the German night fighter units were twin-engined aircraft like the Ju 88 or Do 217. By summer 1943, the Luftwaffe devised a new night interception tactics in which single-engined day fighters […]

Superdetailers Unite!

by Stefan Eriksson drawings by Anders Nowotny About Blue Peter In the recent years the Swedish Air Force has been busy painting aircrafts to celebrate different kinds of anniversaries or commemorate end of operations. As part of this trend, we have already seen many colourful J 35 Drakens. As the […]

Saab JA 37 Viggen Blå Petter

model by Stefan Hellström text by Martin Waligorski   ”Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.” Readers that know the origin of this quote will immediately recognize the subject of Stefan Hellström’s scale […]

Brother William

Dragon kit built with modifications by Anders Isaksson based on model description by Valter Turkalj   By 1942, the Soviet high command realized the need for new heavy tanks of extreme firepower. With the experience from the KV line of heavy tanks, the Soviets started to build a new type […]

JS-2 Russian Tank

Building scale dinosaur out of chicken bones  by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro As a change to the usual offerings I thought I’d tell about an advanced conversion project with no plastic contents whatsoever. I’m somewhat interested in paleontology and when I recently heard of Chris McGowan’s book Make Your Own Dinosaur out […]

And Now on to Something Entirely Different…

Eduard’s Bell X-1 in 1/48 scale model by Jacob de Maré text by Martin Waligorski   Of all research and prototype aircraft, this one has a truly immortal fame. On October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 no. 1 with Capt. Charles ”Chuck” Yeager at the controls became the first piloted […]

Glamorous in Orange

by Martin Waligorski This is the first part of the two-part feature covering the history of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 series of experimental supersonic aircraft. Part two can be found here. Background The Bell X-1 and Chuck Yeager will always be remembered as a formidable combination. In the aeronautical […]

Bell X-1 Experimental Aircraft

by Tomasz Gronczewski The object of this article is to acquaint you with a few of the many tricks used in producing rigging on scale models. Below I will describe the method that I have developed an which works fine for me. I build mostly 1/48 airplane models, but all […]

Rigging in Scale

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Scratchbuilding a 1939 Country Bus model by Sven Örnberg text based on Sven Örnbergs model description, written by Martin Waligorski   (The text of this feature is based on construction notes by Sven Örnberg. I decided to retain the 1st person perspective from Sven’s original description of the build I […]

From Anten to Alingsås

by Martin Waligorski photos by Martin Waligorski, Mattias Linde and Phillip Treweek   The Improvised Excellence As is widely known, the Supermarine Spitfire was Britain’s premiere fighter throughout the entire war. Pilots found it to be agile and dependable, it was a fine air-combat plane capable of great speed and […]

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX in Detail

by Bruce Grinstead   This article has first appeared in Post Strike – the newsletter of IPMS Ottawa (www.ipmsottawa.ca). Published here with kind permission of the Editor – Ed.   This article is a brief overview of painting a figure face… intended as a guideline so that you can start […]

Painting a Face

Captured P-51B in Luftwaffe markings  by Ricardo Dacoba   With the advent of the North American P-51B, the USAAF finally received an aircraft which could compete on equal terms with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and later models of the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Previously reluctant to ”not conceived here” Mustang fighter, […]

In Wrong Hands

Lockheed F-104C in shining metal by Mike Howard   The Monogram 1/72 F-104C I don’t remember exactly when or where I first saw an F-104, but since that time long ago, I’ve carried a special fascination for the gleaming silver Missile with a Man in it. Though I own many […]

Missile with a Man in it