Lars Befring

by Raul Hrubisko     Introduction I always wanted to have some experimental aircraft in my RAF collection. Last year I had the chance to obtain the following book: British Prototype Aircraft by Ray Sturtivant. It is this book that allowed me to learn about some of the most interesting experimental aircraft […]

Tailless and Canard Experimental Aircraft of the RAF

by Raúl Hrubisko When I was fourteen, I read a book which I thought was the best book I had ever read. It was a wartime aviation story involving some gallant men a de Havilland Mosquito. My fascination for the Mosquito as the most ingenious and beautiful warplane ever designed began […]

Passion for Mosquitoes

by Martin Waligorski During the years I have had the opportunity to see and photograph a few thousand 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 I […]

Editor’s Picks, March

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Eller så här går det till på IPMSStockhoms Sociogastronomiska event på Midsommargården Vi samlades som vanligt på Midsommargården för det andra byggmötet i Februari. Efter att ha möblerat för modellbygge och byggt fram till 18:00 var det dags för dom hungrigaste att lyfta blodsockerhalten efter en lång arbetsdag.  Kvarterets Indiska restaurang har lovat […]

Byggmötesrapport – 23 februari

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi Return to Part 2: Every Window Tells a Story Masonry The bricks have been applied with Saxite glue used in full-scale construction. Once dried its colour resembles that of the original mortar. Mounting about 200,000 bricks was a […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 3: Bringing It All Together

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi Return to Part 1 of this article: The Brick Machine Windows Every window of the church had its own history and solution. Several techniques had been studied for each of them. Sharp observers that we were, we soon […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 2: Every Window Tells a Story

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi The idea to build a 1/25 scale model of the Abbazia of Chiaravalle was born quite in the same instant as the inception of the Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallesi club back in 2002. So it is very difficult for […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 1: The Brick Machine

Or: Bang for the Buck Part III by Rafi Ben-Shahar I am not a great fan of topics related to aircraft of the Israeli Defence Force. Yet, from the perspective of model making, I cannot turn a blind eye to the geographical proximity and high accessibility to related references. The […]

IDF F-16A Fighting Falcon

The article about weapons and equipment for the A32A Strike Aircraft has been updated with new loadcharts and new profiles: Klick here on this elegant link to get to the new stuff A fantastic amount of Lansenmania can be found on Erik Gustavsson homepage PLASTICWARFARE, talk about crawlarounds!! Happy modeling […]

Arming your Swedish A32A Lansen

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Andra omgången är nu överstökad av den prestige fyllda tävlingen Stans Modellbyggare, Olle och Björn har nu ett ordentligt poängövertag. Vilket ger följande resultat för februariomgången Vilket ger följande ställning i tävlingen Stans Modellbyggare Nya på listan denna gång voro: Jonas Dahlberg Stellan Englund Henrik Larsson I denna omgång deltog 5 […]

Stans Modellbyggare Februari 2012

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  By Lars Befring The Swedish A32A Lansen was the first truly modern attack airplane to enter the Swedish AF, when brought into service in the spring of 1956 it had one primary task: Defeat the Soviet naval invasion fleet! and as a secondary mission, strike at the enemy if […]

Weapons and Equipment A32A Lansen