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Photos by Peter Alsterberg Text by Martin Waligorski Here are some new models recently completed by members of IPMS Stockholm. We hope that you’ll enjoy the photos. Regrettably the models look even better in reality then they do on pictures. See you at the meeting next time… 🙂 A wonderful […]

IPMS Stockholm’s Showcase March 1999

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: Januari

text by Magnus Fridsell model photo by Anders Nowotny This model is of the last SAAB J-35 Draken flown by the third squadron of F10 wing at Ängelholm in southern Sweden. The third squadron has always been referred to as yellow (first is red, second is blue). For the stand-down […]

The Last Draken

by Frank Spahr I returned to aircraft modelling a few years ago, having built a lot of Airfix kits in my teens, first without paint and always with some parts inexplicably left over, then with paint and mostly complete, but most of them ending by firecrackers in their fuselages or […]

Modelling Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Frank)

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg For a change I must admit I have never built a car model before. My modelling interests have always been connected to flying machines, and then mostly to 1/72nd scale. However, from time to time these tedious detail and paint jobs on […]

Building Tamiya’s Jaguar Mk. II

by Janne Nilsson   This model originated from a resin figure from Verlinden in 1/32 scale. I altered the pose was by placing ammo boxes in the figure´s hands. I also added a new head. The converted figure was then painted with Humbrol enamels. The base was built up using […]

Panzergrenadier

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 December

Photos by Magnus Fridsell Text by Martin Waligorski Britain’s last Biplane Fighter The Gloster Gladiator was the RAF’s last biplane fighter. Gloster designed the prototype as a private venture S.S.37 , a successor to the Gauntlet then in RAF service. In July 1935 the Gladiator was ordered for the RAF […]

Gloster Gladiator in Detail

Photos by Peter Alsterberg Text by Martin Waligorski Many modelling magazines and e-zines (including ours) devote much of their attention to advanced modelling projects. These often involve skills and techniques, and first of all – spent time – that perhaps goes beyond of what an average modeler can afford to […]

Out-of-the-Box!

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Bo Genvad’s modelling interests circulate around an area as specialised (or wide if you prefer) as US Navy experimental aircraft. Here are some samples of Bo’s growing collection of 1/72 models. The period of 1940s to 1950s was the golden age of […]

US Navy X-Fighters

A history of Fairey Battle L5343 by Ragnar J. Ragnarsson ”My” Battle I was a member of the team that salvaged L5343 from the interior of Iceland in 1972, where she’d been laying since 13 September 1940 when she made a forced-landing on account of an engine failure. Being an […]

Battle Addendum

by Mats Hammar    ”No, you can’t take the boat with you when taking a bath with me!”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in August 1999.  

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 1

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Carl-Johan Gunnarsson called this well-composed vignette ”Normandie 1944”. Somewhere in the vincinity of Caen, as can be read from a road sign on the wall. The vehicle shown is a British WASP Mk. II Flame-thrower Carrier. Carl-Johan converted Tamiya’s Mk II Universal […]

Normandie 1944

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Janne Nilsson   Has the IPMS Stockholm’s webzine suddenly become interested in oil paintings? Not really, but I just couldn’t resist this trick with one of Janne Nilsson’s newest creations – a bust of King Gustav II Adolf. Believe it or not – the […]

Löwe aus der Mittelnach

Searching for perfection with Revell’s Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 text by Martin Waligorski model photos by Peter Alsterberg ”An exceptionally accurate kit; (…) so accurate as to be almost unbelievable”. So enthusiastic was a review of Revell/ProModeler’s new 1/72 kit of Focke-Wulf’s famous fighter in Scale Aviation Modeller International vol. […]

Fw 190 Inside Out