Volume 7 – 2003

Text by Martin Waligorski Photos by Martin Waligorski and Frank Spahr   Despite being one of the icons of post-war civilian aviation, the large, fabric-covered An-2 biplane remains firmly rooted in the 1920s. The An-2 was designed by Oleg Antonov as an agricultural aircraft for the post-war Soviet rural economy. […]

Antonov An-2 Colt in Detail

Tamiya’s classic still goes together like Lego bricks  by Vegard Henanger   As the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was entering service with Luftwaffe units during the later half of the 1930’s, its potential successor, the Fw 190, was already being designed by Dipl. Ing. Kurt Tank of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau. However, the […]

Focke Wulf Fw 190A-3

ICM 1/48 P-51B in RAF colours by Wojtek Perkowski   The North American’s legendary P-51 fighter is widely recognized for being a result of a RAF order in the first place and the British initiative to adapt the design to take a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. The latter moved the aircraft […]

Mustang Mk. III

Lockheed F-16 in 1991 Tiger Meet markings by Ricardo Dacoba   By 1960, the French minister of defense, Pierre Messner, took an initiative to make to promote French-American relations. On his request, the Commander-in-Chief Europe created an association to improve relationships between individual combat squadrons within NATO.. The USAFE 79th […]

Extreme Airbrushing

The all-new Tamiya kit is built out of the box  by Anders Isaksson Background The Humvee was designed by AM General as a contender in the competition for designing and manufacturing a multi-purpose wheeled vehicle for the U.S. Army. AM General was awarded with the contract to produce what was […]

M1025 Humvee

The Boat That Changed the Submarine Warfare Text by Frank Spahr Photos by Frank Spahr   (Due to the large number the images in this photo essay, the material has been split into two parts  to facilitate faster downloads – Ed.)   U-Boot Type XXI in Detail: Part 5 – […]

U-Boot Type XXI in Detail, Part II

Text by Frank Spahr Photos by Frank Spahr     The Boat That Changed the Submarine Warfare In the spring of 1943, Germany was clearly losing the battle of the Atlantic. Improvements in Allied escort material and tactics, combined with cracking the German military code dramatically increased the U-Boats´ losses, […]

U-Boot Type XXI in Detail, Part I

Camouflage & Markings artwork by Thierry Dekker text by Martin Waligorski (with significant contributions by Joe Baugher)   Although the Curtiss P-36 Hawk saw very little combat in American hands, it’s role with the French Air Force was an entirely different story. Next to the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406, the Curtiss Hawk […]

Curtiss Hawk 75 in Armée de l’Air Service

1995 Subaru RAC Rally Diorama by Darren Maharaj   The scene depicts one of the stages of 1995 RAC Rally through the Welsh countryside. The car is the 1/24 scale Hasegawa 1995 season RAC/Monte Carlo Rally – depending on the decals you use. I chose the RAC rally because the […]

Opposite Lock

Hasegawa 1/700 Japanese battleship Ise by Anders Lindgren   The Imperial Japanese Navy had a tradition of producing innovative battleship designs which were the equal, or better, of many of their foreign contemporaries. When Nagato was commisioned in 1920, she was probably the most powerful battleship in the World, a […]

Imperial Battleship

A Story About the Ultimate Spitfire Collection by Raúl Hrubisko I began my 1/72 collection of British warplanes when I was fourteen. I read a wartime story involving the Mosquito, and both the story and the airplane impressed me greatly. It is then my passion for RAF modelling started, and […]

Modelling for a Lifetime

Photo Album Text by Martin Waligorski Photos: Library of Congress through USAF   As the world celebrates the Wright brothers’ significant contribution to mankind, it is only fitting that we each think of the benefits we enjoy due to these two gentlemen’s accomplishments. Not only did their invention dramatically change […]

Those Magnificent Wright Brothers and their Flying Machines

Bf 109G-2 flown by Luftwaffe ace Heinrich Ehrler (204 victories)  by Tomasz Gronczewski The man … Heinrich Ehrler was one of top Luftwaffe Experten with 204 kills. He fought almost entirely in far North area of the Eastern Front with JG 5. This Geschwader supported German attempts to seize Murmansk […]

The Arctic Experte

Academy’s M18 Tank Destroyer Stands for a Good Deal of Modelling Pleasure model by Micke Arreborn text and images by Martin Waligorski   The M-18 Hellcat was born in the latter part of World War II out of the need to provide mobile tank destroyers capable of fighting German armour. […]

Out-of-the-box Hellcat

model by Markus Eriksson text and images by Martin Waligorski The enmity that had existed between Russia and Sweden during the reign of Tsar Peter I and King Charles XII of Sweden culminated in the twenty-year long Great Northern War. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the […]

Poltava 1709