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by Frank Spahr Filling Being a dentist by profession, and modeller by interest, I have been using some tools and materials from dental supply that I think might be interesting for other readers of these pages. What can dentistry do for the modeller? Quite a lot, actually, apart from dental […]

What Dentistry Can Do for the Modeller

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 Oktober

by Roy Hauer The following article is being reprinted from the newsletter of Austin Model Cars Club. Used with the permission of the editor.   Being an avid user of an airbrush I was always hassled by the wife with smelling the fumes when I would clean my airbrush. I […]

Airbrush Cleaner & Thinner Recycler

by Frank Spahr Part II In the first part of this account we took a closer look at Hermeskeil museum’s preserved English Electric Lightning F.2A, along with a selection of other exhibits. Continuing our trip through the museum’s vast collection of aircraft, we will focus this month on the F-100 […]

North American F-100F Super Sabre in Detail

by Rick Kent Nieuports and SPADs under British Management When the excellent Fokker monoplane fighters appeared on the front they greatly outclassed their British and French opponents of whom many were shot down in what the British called the Fokker Scourge. Hence there was a desparately urgent need to design […]

French Fighters in British Service During WW1

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg Tomas Lindgren, a colleague from IPMS Stockholm and a productive armour modeller, once came to the club meeting with this quarter-scale model of Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3, to search advice among air modelling ”experts” about painting and finishing aircraft models. The Emil […]

Building The First Aircraft Model

by Mats Hammar       ”Arne, if I were you I would test the flamethrower some other time.”     This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in February 2000.

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 7

by Martin Waligorski How Good is Good Enough? The P-40 was the last and best known of Curtiss Hawk series fighters initiated in the 1920s. It’s qualities were, and are, controversial.Criticised by many for poor manoeuvrability, low speed and rate of climb, it was on a verge of being obsolescent […]

Modeller’s Guide to Curtiss P-40 Variants

photos by Phillip Treweek, Kiwi Aircraft Images text by Martin Waligorski The Curtiss P-40 is one of the best-known American fighters of World War II. Despite it’s fame, it was not one of the period’s best performers, outclassed in virtually every way by other fighters of its time. Therefore, as […]

Curtiss P-40E in Detail

Evolutionary Modelling With Minimal-Price Kits by Frank Spahr Modelling has become tremendously sophisticated over the last years. Not only the after-market suppliers, but also the major companies themselves offer us kits in a previously never-dreamed-of quality, as well in terms of precision, fit and detail. Opening a detail set still […]

Cheap, Yet Not Awful

by Mats Hammar    ”I’m tired of this! Will he never learn to use proper glue?”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in March 2000.  

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 8

by Göran Kindlund English translation by Magnus Fridsell    Känns bilen igen? Modellen föreställer en rallybil från mitten av 60-talet. Eller kanske rättare, en OT-bil eftersom de flesta tävlingarna gick under benämningen OT (Orientering och Tillförlitlighet) på den tiden. Utgångsmodellen är en Hellerbyggsats av en ’67 Gordini 1300. Att göra […]

1965 Renault R8 Gordini

by Rick Kent This page is a continuation of Camouflage and Markings of No. 74 Sqn RAF, Part 1. It covers post-war history and aircraft of this famous RAF unit. The Jet Age 74 Squadron was re-equipped as the RAF’s third Meteor squadron in June 1945 at Colerne in Wiltshire […]

Camouflage and markings of No. 74 Squadron RAF, Part ...

by Rick Kent ”I Fear No Man” Throughout aviation history, tiger motifs have been increasingly popular, culminating in the contemporary Tiger Meets. I recently completed a series of profiles devoted to the very first Tiger aviation unit in the world – No.74 RAF Squadron. The unit was formed in 1917 […]

Camouflage and markings of No. 74 Squadron RAF, Part 1

by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Trend or Coincidence? Recent years brought back the interest for World War 1 models, both on the armor and the aircraft modelling scenes. Here a few examples of the early armored vehicles in model form. All three models have been displayed at the […]

WW1 Armor Revisited