No. 25 by Mats Hammar ”…must be ready before IPMS-Open…”
Magazine
1 by Martin Waligorski I’m sure that many fellow model builders out there will agree that masking and painting wheel hubs of vehicles, road wheels of AFVs or aircraft is an ungrateful task. If you are lucky enough to model large-scale modern kit it may contain wheel hubs and tires as […]
Masking Wheels
by Johan Isaksson photos by Anders Isaksson Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) LAV is an all-terrain, armored, amphibious and highly versatile battle vehicle used by United States Marine Corps. The version presented below is designated LAV-25 and comes equipped with a turret mounting a 25 mm chain gun. The LAV-25 was […]
Gulf War LAV-25
text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Sometimes it is difficult to know why modellers get particularly interested in certain subjects – they just do. Göran Sebardt’s has meticulously built this collection of Tp2s – pre-war Junkers W 33/34s in Swedish service. The collection consists of only few aircraft […]
Tp2 (Junkers W 33/34) in Swedish Service
by Martin Waligorski Photos: Martin Waligorski Everyone’s favourite Many aircraft historians would agree that the only pre-war German aircraft type not matched by the Allies throughout the entire conflict was the lightweight Fieseler Fi 156 Storch. Popular among the Germans, their allies as well as their counterparts, the Fi 156 […]
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch in Detail
No. 26 by Mats Hammar ”No 220 volt outlet! I’ll need to borrow a can from graffiti painters to make it ready for IPMS Open…” This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in April […]
Arne (the Model Builder)
Fantasifullt modellbyggande i juletider av Det Gamla Trollet EN BIT SANNING OM TOMTETRADITIONEN Tomten, flygande genom julnatten med släde och renar utdelande julklappar till barnen i västvärlden, sådan vi känner honom är definitivt inte en realitet. Sanningen om denna märkliga figur är en helt annan nämligen, samtliga kända […]
The Christmas Special
World’s first jet makes a tiny model in 1/72nd scale by Martin Waligorski To be honest, I am particularly fond of the model photos presented here: for once, I effectively managed to disguise the scale of my creations! What appears to be the full scale aircraft on the picture below […]
Small is Beautiful
Building the Halcyon 1/9th scale Alien with base and egg by Ingemar Caisander Background This is a model of the alien creatures featured in the well-known James Cameron movie ”Aliens”, released in 1986. Most of you probably have seen some/all of these movies (as of today a total of three […]
Creating an Alien
Superdetailing the 1/48 Eduard Profipack Kit by Lars Qvarfordt When Eduard gave us modellers a really nice kit of Airco DH-2 in the 1/48 scale, I couldn’t resist it. I have always had a weak spot for this pusher. There is always a challenge for me trying to get out […]
Close-up on Airco DH-2
No. 27 by Mats Hammar ”I need a tube of filler, Humbrol No. 63 Flesh and Tamiya’s new M8! Hurry on, I’m carrying out the garbage!” This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in May 2001.
Arne (the Model Builder)
The Classic US Medium Tank in Winter Camouflage by Anders Isaksson The Sherman medium tank was the major AFV of the Allied forces in World War II. With more than 55.000 produced in all versions it was used on every major front throughout the war and beyond. The five […]
M4 Sherman
by Martin Waligorski The Hawker Hart and its many derivations, the Demon, Audax, Hardy, Hind, Osprey and Hector must have been the multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Constructed by Sydney Camm, the prototype Hart flew for the first time in 1928 with production machines reaching RAF service in 1930. A […]
Hawker Hart in Detail
Building Dragon’s Kit of the Russian Main Battle Tank by Mikael Isaksson History of the T-80 At the beginning of the 80’s, a new Soviet main battle tank was to be developed from the T-72 concept. Having solved the technical problems with the automatic loader that was installed on the […]
T-80
The P-47 Thunderbolt of the Fuerza Aerea de Chile (FACH) by Peter Ibes, IPMS Netherlands The end of war and the advent of the jet fighter did not mean the end of the career of one of the most famous American fighters of World War 2, the P-47 Thunderbolt. […]