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by Martin Waligorski The problem with Yak fighters Some modellers asked me before through the net about the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1 fighter, its variants, camouflage and general info. This little article describes what I could find out about the subject. Surprisingly little is known about the Yak fighters in western […]

The Confusion About Yak-1

by Mark Wlodarczyk  This essay is part of a larger work on the Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 ”Oscar” fighter airplane, soon to be published in Polish by AJ Press in the ”Monografie Lotnicze”book series. An English translation will hopefully follow soon. The ”Oscar” was the Imp. Japanese Army’s main fighter during […]

IJA Type 1 Fighter Nakajima Hayabusa (Oscar)

by Martin Waligorski Some modellers on the web asked me before about Polish pre-war and World War II aircraft camouflage colors. The question is interesting as almost all previously released models of Polish aircraft – like Revell or Heller P.11, or Heller PZL 23 Karas, or even genuine Polish kits […]

Notes About Polish Air Force Colors, Of pre-World War II ...

by Martin Waligorski As a modeller returning to the hobby after several years’ inactivity, I found a whole new world of research about aircraft colors. During the seventies, every Luftwaffe aircraft model could be painted PLM 70/71/65 ”for accuracy”, and RAF Sky was still referred to as Duck Egg Blue […]

Notes About Luftwaffe Colors

by Martin Waligorski Introduction Airfix 1/72 Spitfire kit is very easily available. You can buy it in many toy shops. It’s cheap – probably one of the cheapest plastic models your money can buy. Airfix has tooled Spitfire Mk I in 1980. The molds were based on their earlier Spitfire […]

Modelling Airfix Spitfire in 1/72nd Scale

av Mark E.Young, Jr. IPMS/USA 5494 & Scott M.Head IPMS/USA 32841 Murphys Lag Allt som kan gå fel gör det också. Mackowskis Lag om tappade smådelar Sannolikheten för att tappa en liten del ner på golvet är omvänt proportionell till delens storlek. Sannolikheten för att tappa en liten del ner […]

Modellbyggandets lagar

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av Johan Hugogård IPMS Stockholm Många undrar hur de skall gå till väga för att hålla sina spruta ren och välfungerande. Faktum är att de flesta problem som brukar uppstå med airbrushsprutor beror på bristfällig rengöring. I detta fall tänkte jag vis hur jag brukar göra ren min Evolutionspruta. Det […]

Att göra ren sin Airbrush

by Johan ”Hugis” Hugogård The cyanoacrylate glue, popularly referred to as superglue is one of those additions to the workbench which brought a small technological revolution in modelling. Not only did it allow to bond different materials such as metal to plastic, but also opened up the way for entirely […]

Good to Know About Superglue

by Johan ”Hugis” Hugogård, IPMS Stockholm Many people wonder how to keep their airbrush clean and well-functioning.The fact is that most of the problems that occur with airbrushes are related to lack of or wrong cleaning of the equipment. Therefore I have assembled the following pictorial guide in which I […]

Airbrush Cleaning Pictorial

by Mark Davies What better way to introduce the Islander than lift a quote from Britten Norman’s website? “The ubiquitous Islander is the best-selling commercial aircraft produced in Western Europe. Adaptable, versatile and durable, it has an unsurpassed record of solving transportation problems simply and economically in some of the […]

Airfix 1/72 Britten Norman Islander