Volume 3 – 1999

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg     Italeri has a tradition of pleasing us with many fine kits of contemporary rotorcraft, and this one is no exception. Björn Ringholm utilised the Italeri kit to built this 1/72 model of V-22 Osprey. The V-22 The Osprey is as […]

V-22 Osprey

by Frank Spahr Masking – Aaargh! I read a posting titled as above of these days at this site’s message forum, and it pretty well sums up my feelings to this point. Masking is tricky, tedious, unnerving and often not quite predictable. Any modeller has to face masking problems now […]

Masking Canopies

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 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 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 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 Joe Baugher The P-51 Mustang was perhaps the most famous fighter of World War II, and, many would say, the best all-round piston-engined fighter produced by any of the combatants during that conflict. Total production of all Mustangs amounted to 15,575 in the USA and 100 in Australia, ranking […]

Modeller’s Guide to Early P-51 Mustang Variants

by Joe Baugher On April 30, 1942, Ronald W. Harker, a test pilot for the British Rolls-Royce engine manufacturer, took a brief hop in a RAF Mustang at the airbase at Duxford. Like lots of other pilots, he was highly impressed with the Mustang. Upon landing, he is reported to […]

Modeller’s Guide to Late P-51 Mustang Variants

by Martin Waligorski Allison-powered Mustangs Voted by many as the ultimate piston-engined fighter of World War II, the Mustang is a true classic of aviation history. As such it has also been an extremely popular modelling subject. When hearing the name Mustang, most people will probably associate it with a […]

North American P-51A Mustang in Detail

by Rick Kent Intending to continue the last month’s Mustang profile collection (Part 1 show a selection of P-51s in the U.S. service – Ed.), I’ve been looking through my collection of RAF and Commonwealth Mustang profiles (in fact the only Commonwealth squadrons that operated Allison Mustangs were Canadian, so […]

Camouflage and markings of North American P-51 Mustang, Part 2

by Rick Kent P-51 in the U.S. Service The Mustang did not gain it’s immortal fame until this American airframe was married with the British Merlin engine. Providing long-range escort to B-17s and B-24s, the Mustang carried the air war to the heart of Germany. By war’s end, P-51s had […]

Camouflage and markings of North American P-51 Mustang, Part ...