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by Christopher Holland   I took a little side-step from ordinary modeling by doing a Space Marine diorama. Amazingly it got me first place in the Small Scale Dioramas at the IPMS Open 2001 in Stockholm. Here we have five Space Marines on patrol on some far-off planet. As you […]

Space Marines Securing Sector 45.12

model by Lennart Malmros text by Martin Waligorski Together with Opel Blitz, the Mercedes-Benz L3000 3-Ton diesel truck was one of the primary transport vehicles of the German Army during World War II. 7434 units were made. The truck was powered with 6-cylinder 95hp engine. Lennart Malmros built this 1/35 […]

Mercedes Benz L3000

Bringing the Old Testors F-104C Kit up to Modern Standards by Alejandro Nuñez   The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the most extreme designs of ”Kelly” Johnson, Lockheed’s famous chief designer. It grew out of the combat experience of the Korean conflict, where many of the American pilots felt that the […]

With Plastic Card and Kitchen Foil

Modelling Zvezda’s 1/35 T-72B/EDZ by Thomas Johansson   Many of us Swedes remember how it was to grow up in the shadow of the Red Bear, that is probably the main reason why many modellers are still intrigued by Russian armour, myself included. In the Swedish Defence military exercises during the […]

T-72: Red Armour

1/48 Kit Roundup by Rafi Ben-Shahar   The 1/48 Spitfire Mk. IX and its twin, the Mk. XVI have been a problematic issue in plastic modelling. Several companies tried to satisfy a seemly large segment in the modelling community with this classic and beautiful aircraft. However, results were disappointing and […]

In Search of the Perfect Spitfire Mk. IX

A Diorama in 1/72 Scale by Jonas Dahlberg   The diorama shows a section of the Eastern Front under attack by the Red Army in the early spring of 1944. The T-34 tank has just had its turret blown off by the tank-busting Junkers Ju 87 Stuka piloted by Hans-Ulrich Rudel. […]

Rudel Saves the Day!

Czech Master Resin 1:72 Hughes Racers by Mark Davies   The Hughes H-1 racer may be familiar to many as a result of the movie The Aviator where Leonardo de Caprio played Howard Hughes, and crashed an H-1 into a beet field. This sleek-looking aircraft was very advanced for 1935 with its highly streamlined […]

H for Hughes

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by Tomasz Gronczewski Frederick Hughes was the fourth top RAF night fighting ace with 18.5 victories. Hughes was 21 years old when, in summer 1940, the hottest days of the Battle of Britain came. He was initially posted to No. 26 Squadron RAF, but soon joined the 264th Squadron flying […]

Frederick Hughes and the Boulton Paul Defiant

by Rio de Janeiro Model Car Club, via Alaor Gosdal English translation by Marty Oberman, Jr. This material has been first published in portuguese at the home page of IPMS Curitiba, Brasil. Re-posted here in English version by kind permission of the copyright owner (Ed.) This text is not a […]

Model Car Painting with Real Automotive Paints

Converting the Bf 109G to Messerschmitt Bf 109G-12 trainer variant by Ricardo Dacoba English translation by Martin Waligorski   The Messerschmitt Bf109G-12 was the two-seater trainer variant of the famous Gustav. It only arrived at the end of the war, and curiously was the only trainer variant of the 109 […]

Two Cockpits, One Level of Detail

model by Sven Ornberg text by Martin Waligorski This is a 1/25 1937 Ford Pickup truck built from Revell/Monogram kit by Sven Ornberg. ”Number One for 1937!” was Ford’s slogan for the 1937 pickup truck. After twenty years of truck production, the Ford Motor Company lived up to the claim, […]

1937 Ford Pickup

Improving the painting techniques with the Fujimi 1/72 Stuka  by Rob de Bie I bought this 1/72 Fujimi Ju 87 Stuka kit some years ago, because I wanted to have a training model, to practice painting, decaling and weathering. I have no special interest in the Stuka, and that made […]

Learning to Paint

Photos by Graeme Adamson and Charles Hugo Text by Martin Waligorski Surviving samples of the world’s first operational jet fighter are rare enough; of over 1500 Messerchmitt Me 262s produced there are only eight aircraft left today, or ten if you count the two post-war Avia S-92s. One of the […]

Messerschmitt Me 262B in Detail

by Dennis Glas   This material has been first published on the home page of IPMS London, Canada. Used by kind permission of the copyright owner (Ed.)   My latest modelling project is an M4A3E8 Sherman in 1/35 scale. Many of the cast parts found on Sherman tanks were adorned […]

Chemical Etching

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Hasegawa Spit Mk. VB with improvements by Rickard Malmborg English translation by Anders Isaksson   This project started the way in which my projects usually begin; I sit there among all my unbuilt kits trying to decide which one to start with next. Someone with a sense of humour called […]

Polish Spitfire