Magazine

by Nils Mathisrud This is a kit I have been eagerly awaiting for a long time. There hadn’t been any good Beaufighter kits in this scale before High Planes released a series of shot-run Beaus a couple of years ago. However, these kit were a bit rough, and required a […]

Building a Norwegian Beaufighter

by Rick Kent A piece of improvisation Britain’s lack of long-range heavy fighters at the outbreak of the war was undoubtedly a source of embarrassment to the RAF. Single-engined interceptors such as the Hurricane and Spitfire lacked the endurance for effective standing patrols, and it was soon discovered that the […]

Bristol Beaufighter

by  Janne Nilsson Overall view of the vignette   This somewhat cute figurine comes from Phoenix, and is a rendition in white metal to a scale of 80mm. Flesh parts of the figure (which as you can see ”Flesh parts of the figure”cover almost the whole figure) were painted in […]

Guinevere

by Janne Nilsson This vignette was built around an injection moulded figure from Dragon in 1/35 scale. This one was built for a magazine article describing basic figure painting. Flesh parts were painted in artist oils and Humbrol enamels, the rest in Humbrol. The base were created with pieces of […]

Fallschirmjäger

by Joachim Smith The Spitfire PR Mk XIX is, in my opinion, the most beautiful aeroplane ever built; certainly she is the most well-proportioned of the Spitfire breed, without ugly bumps and gun barrels defacing her harmonious shape, the overall PRU blue livery emphasising her elegant lines My own fascination […]

Modelling the Spitfire PR Mk XIX

by Joachim Smith  S31 – Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIX The Spitfire PR Mk XIX was the last of the specialised photo reconnaissance Spits and the only one with a Griffon engine, being delivered to the RAF from mid-1944 to shortly after the end of WWII. Classic Charles Brown photo […]

Spitfire PR Mk XIX in Detail

Pictures and model by Janne Nilsson Text by Martin Waligorski In October 1997 issue of The Magazine, Janne Nilsson presented this very model. The kit was Hasegawa 1/48th scale Vought F4U-4 Corsair, built out-of-the-box. Janne thinks that building the aircraft kit out-of-the-box is perfectly acceptable, but he always tries to […]

F4U-4 Corsair Diorama

by  Janne Nilsson   The 100-years’ War brought several large battles to the French soil. Many of them count today as merely clashes, but some were historical events which determined the outcome of entire campaigns. One such battle took place at Crezy in 1346. Louis de Never took part on […]

Louis de Never

by Rick Kent Does the Fw 190 need any introduction? Well… The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 still is widely regarded as Germany’s best fighter. When it appeared on the Channel Front in 1942, it was more than a match for the contemporary Spitfires. At one time in 1942, desperate plans were […]

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

by Michael Scalingi 11 o’clock view of Mike’s S31In conjunction with the kit survey for Spitfire PR Mk XIX (in August issue of The Magazine – Ed.) I want to point out that there is one other avenue a modeller could take to model a 1/32 scale PR Mk XIX. […]

Building a Large-Scale S31 Spitfire

by Martin Waligorski Let me say it clearly from the beginning. I was very happy to see the new Revell/ProModeler kit of Spitfire Mk V on the shelves of my local hobby shop. I was even more glad to hear that the moulds are completely new. I was almost ecstatic […]

Pro Modeller, Amateur Toolmaker

10th Anniversary of first flight by Fredrik Zetterberg, Euroavia Stockholm Photos courtesy of SAAB Aerospace Enlish version, see below !  Klockan 12.22, den nionde september 1988, lyfte den första prototypen till JAS39 Gripen för första gången. JAS39 Gripen är det första flygplanet ur den fjärde generationen i tjänst. Dessutom är […]

JAS Gripen

by Janne Nilsson   One more figure from Wolf in 54mm scale . The figure was a one-piece casting with a base included. A bag, sabre and gear was molded into the base. I built up my new scene were around the included base. Some new branches were added to […]

Chef d’Escadron

by Michael Scalingi Building the Saab’s first jet ever A couple of years ago, a modelling buddy gave me Heller’s 1/72nd model of the Saab J 21A fighter (knowing that I liked Swedish subjects). He said ”see what you can do with that!” Well it sat on my kit shelf […]

Converting Heller’s SAAB J21A to J21R

by Nils Mathisrud English translation by Martin Waligorski Republic Thunderjet was the first fighter that Norway received as defence aid from USA and the type that was operated in biggest numbers by the Royal Norwegian Air Force (Luftforsvaret). It also happened to be one of the most colorful aircraft flown […]

Modelling Tamiya’s F-84G Thunderjet