Magazine

Photos by Peter Alsterberg Text by Martin Waligorski We’ve decided to show off some of the work that people from IPMS Stockholm have completed recently. During recent year or so the modelling activity in our club really improved, which resulted in many excellent models on the table each month. We […]

IPMS Stockholm’s Showcase February 1999

by Mark Wlodarczyk  This is the English source text of the article published in the Japanese ”Scale Aviation” magazine of December 1998. The article has been previously published on the web at Mark’s personal site www.marksindex.com . IPMS Stockholm has a pleasure of re-issuing this excellent material through author’s permission […]

The Building of Zero

Photos by Stephan Voellings Text by Martin Waligorski Introduction Mig29 in Luftwaffe markingsThe Mig-29 is considered to be the first Russian aircraft comparable in quality of design to those in the west. It first became operational in early 1985 and since then has been exported to a number of countries. […]

Mikoyan & Gurevich Mig-29A Fulcrum in Detail

by Magnus Fridsell The MPM Fw-190 V1 As a start to my collection of famous fighter prototypes, I choose the MPM short run injection kit of the Fw-190 V1. Built and flown at the very end of the 1930s, the full size aircraft ranks among the top fighters of World […]

Building the Fw 190 prototype

by Janne Nilsson     Min Swiss Mercenary är en 120mm figur från Verlinden. Figuren byggdes i princip direkt ur lådan. Endast några mindre förbättringar gjordes. Lederna på fingarna markerades ut genom att rista med en vass kniv. Ett ärr i ansiktet ristades in och rynkor och i pannan likaså. […]

Swiss Mercenary

Photos by Magnus Fridsell Text by Martin Waligorski ”The Jug” Affectionately nicknamed Jug, the P-47 was one of the most famous fighter planes of the World War II. Did you ever wonder why the first production version of the Thunderbolt was designated P-47B instead of -A? Well, funny enough, the […]

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt in Detail

av Janne Nilsson Följ modellbyggarens liv dag för dag. Hur mycket tid ägnar vi egentligen åt hobbyn? Hur löser man problem? Vilket folk träffar man genom sina intressen? Är hobbyn plastmodeller, eller något mer? Svaren kan hittas här, i Janne Nilssons autentiska dagbok. Det har varken början eller slut – […]

Nilssons dagbok, Mars

av Joachim Smith, IPMS -454 För ungefär ett år sen satte jag mig ner att fundera över min verklighet som modellbyggare. Ålder: 51 år. Tid över för att bygga: mindre och mindre. Antal färdiga modeller det senaste året: två (nästan). Halvfärdiga projekt: ett tjugotal. Obyggda modeller på vinden: en bit […]

Modellbygge från en ny vinkel

by Janne Nilsson The Panzerkampfwagen III represented, along its contemporary Panzerkampfwagen IV a giant leap in the design of tanks. These were the vehicles the new German military leaders such as Guderian wanted to develop the Blitzkrieg tactics, which showed to be so devastatingly succesful during the first war years… […]

Modelling Tamiya’s Panzer III L

by Anders Nowotny Helsingborgs Modellbyggarförening, Sweden The origin of SAAB Safir If you have the Heller 1/72 SAAB Safir in stock there is now the possibility to build the experimental aircraft SAAB 201 or a Safir A. This is due to a newly released conversion kit from Broplan of Poland. […]

Backdating Heller’s SAAB Safir to SAAB 201 Experimental Aircraft

A review of the Fujimi Supermarine Spitfire Mark XIVc (and V-1 Flying Bomb)  by  Jeff Warshaw All those magic moments… For me, as a scale modeler, there are two moments in the process which are almost magical. The first is opening the box and seeing the kit for the first […]

Shelf Space

Janne Nilsson Följ modellbyggarens liv dag för dag. Hur mycket tid ägnar vi egentligen åt hobbyn? Hur löser man problem? Vilket folk träffar man genom sina intressen? Är hobbyn plastmodeller, eller något mer? Svaren kan hittas här, i Janne Nilssons autentiska dagbok. Det har varken början eller slut – med […]

Nilssons dagbok: Februari

av Janne Nilsson     This little scene started with an injection-moulded figure from Tamiya in 1/35th scale. The figure one was first brush-painted using Humbrol enamels, then shaded and highlighted using pastel chalks. The whole project was executed to illustrate some basic figure painting techniques for a magazine article […]

Trängsoldat

Photos courtesy of Gary Hethcoat, The Virtual Hangar Text by Martin Waligorski Luftwaffe 1946? I must admit that when I first saw a Dragon kit of Horten Ho IX (see the end of this article) a few years ago, I thought ”well, another one of those Luftwaffe 1946 paper aircraft”. […]

Horten IX (Gotha Go 229) in detail

A Review of the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Yakovlev Yak-1 by Jeff Warshaw Not for the beginner For several years I have been reading professional magazine reviews of Accurate Miniatures highly-detailed kits. From the articles, it seemed like the modeler had to be a top-notch, A-1 competitor (the kind who airbrush […]

Legacy of the White Rose