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by Mark Wlodarczyk  This essay is part of a larger work on the Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 ”Oscar” fighter airplane, soon to be published in Polish by AJ Press in the ”Monografie Lotnicze”book series. An English translation will hopefully follow soon. The ”Oscar” was the Imp. Japanese Army’s main fighter during […]

IJA Type 1 Fighter Nakajima Hayabusa (Oscar)

by Martin Waligorski Some modellers on the web asked me before about Polish pre-war and World War II aircraft camouflage colors. The question is interesting as almost all previously released models of Polish aircraft – like Revell or Heller P.11, or Heller PZL 23 Karas, or even genuine Polish kits […]

Notes About Polish Air Force Colors, Of pre-World War II ...

by Martin Waligorski As a modeller returning to the hobby after several years’ inactivity, I found a whole new world of research about aircraft colors. During the seventies, every Luftwaffe aircraft model could be painted PLM 70/71/65 ”for accuracy”, and RAF Sky was still referred to as Duck Egg Blue […]

Notes About Luftwaffe Colors

by Martin Waligorski Introduction Airfix 1/72 Spitfire kit is very easily available. You can buy it in many toy shops. It’s cheap – probably one of the cheapest plastic models your money can buy. Airfix has tooled Spitfire Mk I in 1980. The molds were based on their earlier Spitfire […]

Modelling Airfix Spitfire in 1/72nd Scale

av Mark E.Young, Jr. IPMS/USA 5494 & Scott M.Head IPMS/USA 32841 Murphys Lag Allt som kan gå fel gör det också. Mackowskis Lag om tappade smådelar Sannolikheten för att tappa en liten del ner på golvet är omvänt proportionell till delens storlek. Sannolikheten för att tappa en liten del ner […]

Modellbyggandets lagar

Dermatt Aircraft Kits by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro When is the last time you have seen plastic kits with this kind of packaging? Enter the Plastiques Dermatt Fiat CR 42 and Spad VII.  Some while back, a friend of mine gave me two model kits he had found in a flea market […]

Wasting Time, Isn’t That What a Hobby is For?

Mark’s Model Plane Miscellany by Mark Davies Lavochkin’s rather overweight and indifferent in-line engined LaGG 3 gave way to a much improved radial engined La-5, which in turn became a simple but very effective fighter in its final La-5FN from. The lack of a reliable radial engine offering more power […]

Eduard’s Little Lavochkin La-7

Mark’s Model Plane Miscellany by Mark Davies At first glance the Westland Welkin looks like Westland’s earlier Whirlwind on Steroids, being powered by Rolls Royce Merlins rather than problematical Peregrines. However the two aircraft were developed to meet quite different requirements and specifications, and so despite appearances a clear evolutionary […]

CMR’s 1/72 Westland Welkin

 by Andrzej Boniukiewicz  English translation by Martin Waligorski Colours of the Polish Military Aviation in the 1930s is a wide and enigmatic subject. For many years what little was known was largely based on suppositions and the elusive memory of the surviving veterans. To my knowledge, there have been no […]

A Question of Polish Khaki

Building Eduard’s New Sopwith Camel Kit by Tomasz Gronczewski I had known for a long time that if there ever would be a good quarter-scale kit of the Sopwith Camel, I’d build mine in the markings of Donald MacLaren, the most prolific Camel ace. Very few details are known about […]

Eduard’s Ferocious Camel

Variations on the Theme of Dragon’s Mistel Combo   by Rafi Ben-Shahar The German Mistel combo of a single-engine fighter on top of an unmanned Ju 88 remains one of the most unusual military aircraft ever put to operational use. As such, it is of given interest to modellers. One […]

Mistels Galore!

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi Return to Part 2: Every Window Tells a Story Masonry The bricks have been applied with Saxite glue used in full-scale construction. Once dried its colour resembles that of the original mortar. Mounting about 200,000 bricks was a […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 3: Bringing It All Together

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi Return to Part 1 of this article: The Brick Machine Windows Every window of the church had its own history and solution. Several techniques had been studied for each of them. Sharp observers that we were, we soon […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 2: Every Window Tells a Story

Mark’s Model Plane Miscellany by Mark Davies I won’t dwell on the fairly well known history and background to the Boulton Paul Defiant. Suffice to say it was for its time a well designed solution to an ill-considered air-fighting concept and technically demanding specification. Given its vulnerability to single-seat fighters […]

MPM’s Boulton Paul Defiant

Group Project of a Lifetime by Moreno Bartolucci , Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallessi The idea to build a 1/25 scale model of the Abbazia of Chiaravalle was born quite in the same instant as the inception of the Associazione Modellisti Chiaravallesi club back in 2002. So it is very difficult for […]

Abbazia of Chiaravalle, Part 1: The Brick Machine