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by Göran Nordin   I was quite surprised when a fellow modeller more experienced than myself approached me at one of our club meetings and asked (a rookie like me) how I had managed to get my Chieftain Mk.5 so muddy and weathered. He also inquired whether I would like […]

Hit The Dirt, Modellers!

by Sven-Åke Grufstedt Introduction Many years ago I was very into modelling but for many reasons I put the hobby on hold and now, 20 years after my last kit was built I started again. And I can tell you that it was truly an eye-opener to realise how much the […]

Building and Painting the Revell 1/72 Merkava Mk. III

by Martin Waligorski Many vintage and not-so-vintage aircraft had their landing or navigational lights incorporated in the wing leading edge, its lower surface or the surface of the fuselage, with the transparent glazing flush with the aircraft’s skin, a good example being this photo of the Hawker Hurricane. Also, camera ports […]

Landing Lights From Cello Tape

1/48 DML Focke-Wulf Fw 190D by Lee Micheltree   Yes, this Dora (that’s her name) came out pretty well……better than I’d hoped. She’s actually the first Axis aircraft I have ever completed, which is odd considering that I have been modelling for 35 years. Therefore deciding on her camouflage scheme was fairly […]

Never Built a Luftwaffe Aircraft…

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Using Photoshop Techniques for Finishing the 1/32 Bf 109 G-2 by Anders Hjortsberg Introduction I returned to this hobby about a year and half ago after something like a 13 year break, give or take a year… For some years now I’ve been doing paint schemes for flight simulator games […]

Grislawski’s Yellow 10

1:72 Fujimi Tachikawa Ki 55 (Ida) by Mark Davies   The Ki 55 was the trainer development of the diminuitive Tachikawa Ki 36 army co-operation aircraft. Although the opartional career of the Ki 36 was fairly short, its excellent handling characteristics and solid reliability made the Japanese Army realize that it was ideal for […]

Japanese Harvard

by Rafi Ben-Shahar Unlike the Luftwaffe aircraft, Allied aircraft often lacked the diversity in camouflage schemes and conspicuous field modifications. As a result, the modeller is frequently limited to a few representative schemes that cover the majority of aircraft in Allied service. This predicament is particularly disturbing when one comes across excellent […]

Variations to the Tamiya 1/48 Corsair

by Martin Waligorski In the first part of this article (click here for part one ) I described a few techniques to produce scale markings by painting rather then decals. I have also shown examples from my own modelling table, where these techniques coupled with a bit of patience produced […]

Don’t Rely On Decals, Part Two

by Martin Waligorski This article describes a few techniques I have tried and used to paint markings on scale models. I hope to show that you don’t need to rely solely on decals for giving that final touch to your model. In fact, many types of markings can be easily […]

Don’t Rely On Decals, Part One

The esoteric Pfalz Dr. I text and photos by Martin Waligorski model by Anders Bruun The very first Pfalz aircraft built were license-production Morane-Saulnier planes, the Type L parasol and the Type H, which became the Pfalz E series. These early Pfalz productions soon proved to be of inadequate performance, […]

Triplane Craze

text by Martin Waligorski construction details based on discussion Forum postings by Andreas Herbst photos by Anders Isaksson & Martin Waligorski     Sd.Kfz 251/1 Stuka Zu Fuss After the Battle of France in 1940, the J.Gast KG factory in Berlin were ordered to develop a launcher for the Wurfgerät […]

Stuka Zu Fuss!

Modelling an all-wing bomber design by Ingemar Caisander History that never happened The Arado Ar E.555 started out in late 1943 as an all-wing project intended to meet the RLM requirement of a high speed jet bomber capable of carrying a bomb load of at least 4000 kg and with […]

The flying wing of the Luftwaffe

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