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Text by Frank Spahr Photos by Frank Spahr     The Boat That Changed the Submarine Warfare In the spring of 1943, Germany was clearly losing the battle of the Atlantic. Improvements in Allied escort material and tactics, combined with cracking the German military code dramatically increased the U-Boats´ losses, […]

U-Boot Type XXI in Detail, Part I

Camouflage & Markings artwork by Thierry Dekker text by Martin Waligorski (with significant contributions by Joe Baugher)   Although the Curtiss P-36 Hawk saw very little combat in American hands, it’s role with the French Air Force was an entirely different story. Next to the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406, the Curtiss Hawk […]

Curtiss Hawk 75 in Armée de l’Air Service

1995 Subaru RAC Rally Diorama by Darren Maharaj   The scene depicts one of the stages of 1995 RAC Rally through the Welsh countryside. The car is the 1/24 scale Hasegawa 1995 season RAC/Monte Carlo Rally – depending on the decals you use. I chose the RAC rally because the […]

Opposite Lock

Hasegawa 1/700 Japanese battleship Ise by Anders Lindgren   The Imperial Japanese Navy had a tradition of producing innovative battleship designs which were the equal, or better, of many of their foreign contemporaries. When Nagato was commisioned in 1920, she was probably the most powerful battleship in the World, a […]

Imperial Battleship

A Story About the Ultimate Spitfire Collection by Raúl Hrubisko I began my 1/72 collection of British warplanes when I was fourteen. I read a wartime story involving the Mosquito, and both the story and the airplane impressed me greatly. It is then my passion for RAF modelling started, and […]

Modelling for a Lifetime

Photo Album Text by Martin Waligorski Photos: Library of Congress through USAF   As the world celebrates the Wright brothers’ significant contribution to mankind, it is only fitting that we each think of the benefits we enjoy due to these two gentlemen’s accomplishments. Not only did their invention dramatically change […]

Those Magnificent Wright Brothers and their Flying Machines

Bf 109G-2 flown by Luftwaffe ace Heinrich Ehrler (204 victories)  by Tomasz Gronczewski The man … Heinrich Ehrler was one of top Luftwaffe Experten with 204 kills. He fought almost entirely in far North area of the Eastern Front with JG 5. This Geschwader supported German attempts to seize Murmansk […]

The Arctic Experte

Academy’s M18 Tank Destroyer Stands for a Good Deal of Modelling Pleasure model by Micke Arreborn text and images by Martin Waligorski   The M-18 Hellcat was born in the latter part of World War II out of the need to provide mobile tank destroyers capable of fighting German armour. […]

Out-of-the-box Hellcat

Converting the Supermodel 1/72 kit to S.M. 81T by Peter Ibes (IPMS Netherlands)   When it comes to modelling, I love those esoteric subjects from World War II. So when I came across photographs of a number of Savoia Marchetti S.M. 81 Ts of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana and the Thierry Dekker’s artwork in Camouflage and Markings […]

Savoia-Marchetti’s ’Pizza Courier’

Converting Dragon’s 1/48 Ta 152 H Using Fusion Models Resin Set by Ricardo Dacoba   Introduction The Focke-Wulf Ta 152C was Kurt Tank’s finest fighter, and the one which represented the pinnacle of mainstream development of the Fw 190 line. Series production orders for the Ta 152C had been placed in October 1944, but […]

Focke-Wulf Ta 152 C-1

Building Czech Master Resin 1/72 kit by Mark Davies   The prototype Kranich was designed at DFS by Hans Jacobs in 1935, and was an enlarged and developed version of his record breaking single seat Rhönsperber. The Kranich was produced from 1935 until the late 1950’s. It set world and various national two-seater […]

DFS Kranich

Tamiya 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter by Frank Spahr   The pugnacious Beaufighter had a long career and served in almost all theatres of war, first as a night fighter, then as a strike fighter, and eventually replaced the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber. While initially designed for pure fighter role, the performance of the […]

Weathering Fun

by Rafi Ben-Shahar   Tamiya or Hasegawa? This month I have a little quiz for you. The photos in this article show two 1/48 models of the famous Republic P-47D Thunderbolt. Can you tell which kit used is the Tamiya and which is the Hasegawa? My guess is that you will find the answer […]

Model Duplication

by Tomasz Gronczewski   Ernest ”Feeb” Fiebelkorn was one of the biggest aces of the 8th Air Force. Writing ”biggest” I mean tallest and heaviest. 6ft 4in combined with 225 pounds must have made a placement into Mustang’s cockpit a bit problematic. Nevertheless it did not prevent Feeb from becoming the top-scoring pilot of […]

Ernest Fiebelkorn – The Buster of Walter Nowotny

model by Markus Eriksson text and images by Martin Waligorski The enmity that had existed between Russia and Sweden during the reign of Tsar Peter I and King Charles XII of Sweden culminated in the twenty-year long Great Northern War. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the […]

Poltava 1709