Magazine

Part 1: Gloster’s Contribution by Raul Hrubisko In the beginning of 1938, British Air Ministry decided to put an order to Gloster for the development of a new experimental aircraft powered by the new Whittle jet engine. With this the British aircraft industry entered the jet age. A contract E.28/39 […]

Early British Jets

An Old-School Bridge Layer From the Future by Stellan Englund This time I’m back with another head-first dive into the possibilities of the Warhammer 40K series from Games Workshop. As before (see the Hunting Russ Mk II project in the October 2007 issue of the IPMS Stockholm Magazine), the original […]

Road to Hell

Turning a Sow’s Ear Into a Silk Purse by Peter Ibes (IPMS Netherlands) (For our non-Anglo-Saxon readers, ‘Turning a sow’s into into a silk purse’ is an English expression for making something beautiful out of something useless. – Author) Alright, to call the little Revell-Matchbox Fiat CR42 a sow’s ear […]

Upgrading Revell-Matchbox’ Ancient 1/72 Fiat CR42

by Rafi Ben-Shahar How does a state-of-the-art kit technology of the 1970s hold up to the best of today’s standards? Here is a comparison between two kits of the same kind that I built two years ago and some 30 years back.   A Blast From the Past The 1/24 […]

1/24 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 – Then and Now

Tamiya’s 1/72 Messerschmitt Bf 109E is an Easy Build by Martin Waligorski This is Tamiya’s superb Bf 109 in 1/72 scale, built and finished as E-3 model from the Spanish civil war. The notorious Legion Condor is usually associated with earlier, Jumo-powered versions of the Messerschmitt’s fighter. However, a fairly […]

Emil Goes to Spain

Building HP Models Waterline Resin Kit in 1/700 Scale by Frank Spahr   A Little History SMS (His Majesty’s Ship) Zähringen belonged to the five-strong Wittelsbach class of the imperial German navy. Named after German noble houses, the Wittelsbachs were designed and built when Germany had not yet fully entered the naval arms race […]

SMS Zähringen

by Ricardo Dacoba English translation by Martin Waligorski With the big Heinkel He 177, Revell has once again delighted us with an excellent kit. This one fills also an important void – the only previously available kit of this aircraft was released in Airfix Series 5. It was good for […]

A Step Further, Superdetailing Revell’s Big Heinkel He 177

The Rocket that Launched Telecom and an Irony of the Cold War by Barry Davidoff and Tomas Kladiva   The Thor Able Star played a major role in the development of satellite communications. In 1960 it launched the world’s first active repeater communications satellite, Courier 1B. For 17 days Courier 1B received and […]

Modellers’ Guide To Thor-Able Star and Delta

by Barry Davidoff and Tomas Kladiva   The Thor Able Star that launched the Courier 1B Communications satellite on October 4, 1960 from Cape Canaveral and New Ware model of this Thor Able Star built by Thomas Kladiva   Tomas Kladiva is one of the world’s premiere spacecraft modellers. Not […]

Modelling the Thor-Able Star

Repetition is a Key to Your Development by Rafi Ben-Shahar Repetition is the highway to perfection. This is at least the way I feel. Many modellers may feel a bit tepid with respect to trying new techniques and approaching the building process with bold and revolutionary methods. Here is a […]

The Learning Modeller’s Manifesto

An Almost Forgotten Story About P-47 Thunderbolt in SwAF Service by Björn Goldman   This is the story about the Swedish J 27 Åskbollen. During the past 50 years, it has been one of the many classified and undisclosed stories of the Swedish Air Force. In fact, all but one […]

The Swedish ”Dunderbult”

Finishing Revell 1/72 Type VIIc U-Boot by Rafi Ben-Shahar   Submarines are interesting subjects because in real life, you observe only the above-water component that comprises less than a third of the total surface area of the ship, while the model that pretends to represent reality shows the entire ship! […]

To Weather or Not

av Anders Isaksson   Detta är min Chevrolet Chevelle 454 SS (årsmodell 1970). Byggsatsen är från AMT (skala 1/25). För att ge intryck av en sliten gammal trotjänare har bucklor gjorts på flera ställen runt karossen tillsammans med rosthål som har gjorts runt hjulhusen. En hobbyfräs användes för att tunna ut plasten inifrån, och därefter skars hålen upp med en vass kniv. Karossen målades därefter i bleka mattröda nyanser och en sista sprutning med khaki avslutade bygget.  This is my Chevrolet Chevelle 454 SS (model 1970). The kit came from AMT (1/25th scale). To give […]

Heavy duty Chevelle

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

Mark’s Model Plane Miscellany by Mark Davies I have always liked flying boats, and whilst I do like a really elegant boat I can’t resist the more clunky looking ones (In fact I have a thing for aircraft subjects that could easily be flown by Dick Dastardly and Mutley in […]

Avia Beriev MBR-2