Lars Befring

Text, Images Lars Befring   One of those annoying little problems when one wants to rivet a surface is how to get equal spacing between those rivet-lines that don’t have any supporting panel-line. This is one way to do it. This nifty little trick was something I learned while drafting […]

Equal distances between rivet lines

Text, Images: Joakim Hultman   There was a crowd of virtuous people who gathered in the Frihamnen on Friday afternoon for the implementation of the journey across the Baltic Sea to the foreign country in the east. Luckily, my knowledge of the arcane language ”Finnish” is extraordinary, and even Kai-Mikael could a […]

Modellexpo 2014 in Helsingfors, Finland

There are those moments, even during the most hectic events, when there is nothing more to be done and all you can do is wait

Those quiet moments

Sovremenny Destroyer Wreck Text and Image: Jonas Dalberg Translation: Lars Befring     Do you remember those images from the Murmansk harbour where the whole russian fleet lay half sunk and rusting after the disintegration of the Soviet Union? It must have been during the 90s that the images was shown on […]

1998 USSR Recycling

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On Saturday February 8th the Maritime Museum in Stockholm had a model-themed day, and IPMS Stockholm was there to hold the banner high! We entertained and provided fun facts to every visitor passing by, while enjoying ourselves with some model building and lots of talking.   Since our beloved Armchair […]

IPMS Stockholm at the Maritime Museum

  I have the ambition to model the Rolls-Royce Griffon 57 Engine Installation in 3D for 3D Printing in 1/32 scale and thought that it might be interesting to publish a series of work in progress articles about the project. The first thing I do when starting a project is […]

Avro Shackleton engine in 3D Part 1: Fact finding

Vi, Björn och jag, har checkat in på Hotell 08! dom första modellerna pryder borden, några handlare har installerat sig och vi har redan gjort fynd =)   Här kommer några för-open-bilder:  

OPEN 2013, en första glimt

by Tomasz Gronczewski Simply known as ”King of Strafers” or ”Eager El”, Elwyn Guido Righetti was not only a top fighter ace of the 55th FG but a top strafing ace in Europe. Righetti joined 338th FS of the 55th FG in October 1944. He was 29 years old and he was experienced […]

Elwyn Righetti and his P-51

How to Actually Finish a Model in 24 Hours by Kuba Plewka English translation by Martin Waligorski Back to Aircraft In a Day – Part 2 (Painting) My project of getting a model finished in 24 hours flat continues. We are now 17 hours into the project (see part 1 […]

Aircraft In a Day, Part 3 – Finishing

How to Actually Finish a Model in 24 Hours by Kuba Plewka English translation by Martin Waligorski Back to Aircraft In a Day – Part 1 (construction) My project of getting a model finished in 24 hours flat continues. At this point, I have spent 4 hours 40 min at […]

Aircraft In a Day, Part 2 – Painting

How to Actually Finish a Model in 24 Hours by Kuba Plewka English translation by Martin Waligorski Many internet discussion groups devoted to modelling promote various group projects. Usually it’s about building a certain subject which appeals to many. Some time ago, a different idea popped up on a Polish […]

Aircraft In a Day, Part 1 – Construction

Supermarine Stranraer flying boat in 1/48th scale
by Martin Waligorski During the years I have had the opportunity to see and photograph a few thousands of models on various contests and events. Frankly, there have always been more excellent models out there than we could ever feature on the pages of this magazine. In this article series […]

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