Volume 8 – 2004

by Tomasz Gronczewski  This month Tomasz Gronczewski provides an in-depth colour analysis of two applications of the RLM 74/75/76 camouflage on early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s – one from the Channel front, another from the Tunisian campaign (Ed.) Fw 190A-4 Flown by Siegfried Schnell Both Siegfried Schnell and his Fw 190A-4 […]

Early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s

by Bob Laskodi   C’mon people, rigging a WWI airplane is not rocket science, and takes no more modelling skill than filling a seam! You can do this! Rigging Truthfully, rigging an airplane is not difficult. It is time consuming and tedious. First… First you need a plan. You should […]

Rigging a World War I Aircraft

model by Andreas Herbst text and images by Martin Waligorski   Once in a while I see a model at a show which besides the admiration for the fine workmanship stirs up some deeper emotions the way that art can do. It happens with figures, vignettes and dioramas more often […]

Payback at Peleliu

Dressing up Eduard’s Profipack P-40N by Szymon Grzywocz English translation by Martin Waligorski   As it often happens, the inspiration for building this model came from a book. In this case, it was a Squadron/Signal Walkaround no. 8 on Curtiss P-40 that provided the necessary ”kick”. Similarly to other items […]

”Watch My Form”

by Mark Davies The Fouga CM-170 Magister was the aircraft which pioneered the idea of primary jet trainer. Created to meet the Armée de l’Air specification, the Magister sprang from the previous work of designer Pierre Mauboussin, who was known for fitting small turbojet engines to light aircraft and gliders. […]

Airfix Fouga Magister

Text and photos by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, with additional historical background by Martin Waligorski There is a sad lack of civilian models on our modelling tables, in particular considering that there actually are quite a few kits available out there. One of my favourites is the Airfix model of the Piper […]

Piper Cherokee Arrow in Detail

model by Marcus Mohlin text and images by Martin Waligorski One of the big surprises of the operation Barbarossa was the realisation that German tanks, particularly the newest Panzer IV could not match modern Soviet tanks in face-to-face combat. Despite the fairly high rate of attrition in the previous Blitzkrieg […]

VK 30.02 Panther Prototype

Hasegawa 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk. I  by Tomasz Gronczewski     The man Witold Urbanowicz was one of the outstanding Polish aces. Although he was a bit overscored by Stanislaw Skalski with his 18 individual and 3 shared victories, Urbanowicz had at least four claims to fame: his first victory […]

Mr. Urbanowicz and his Hurricane

The IAI Mirage V Dagger from the Falklands War  by Ricardo Dacoba   A Short Lesson of Modern History   After the experience of the Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force approached Avions Marcel Dassault with a requirement for the development of a simplified version of Mirage III. The result […]

Argentinean Dagger

by Mark Davies   The SM. 79 was one of the most important Italian bombers of World War II. Before the war it established numerous records in its racing and military versions, and served with a number of diverse countries from the mid-30’s until after World War II. It was […]

1/72 Airfix Savoia Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero

Heller’s Me 262B Night Fighter in 1/72 Scale by Martin Waligorski   Much has been written before on the web about the Messerschmitt Me 262, so if you don’t know anything about this airplane, Google it! Suffice to say that the two-seater Me 262B variant of the Messerschmitt’s jet fighter […]

Don’t Be Afraid of Raised Panel Lines

Italeri 1/35 DUKW by Bengt Johansson   One thing you couldn’t say about it is that it was pretty. All other virtues were built-in! DUKW was a 2.5-ton, six-wheel amphibious born out of the need to support amphibious operations in World War II. Its primary use was to ferry ammunition, […]

A Duck of All Work

by Doru Sicoe artwork by Bogdan Patrascu The artwork and photographs contained in this article were first published in the book ”Romanian Aeronautics in the Second World War 1941-1945” by Cristian Craciunoiu and Jean-Louis Roba, Modelism, 2004. Used here by kind permission of the publisher (Ed.)   Photo courtesy of […]

Fighters of the Romanian Air Force

1/72 Airfix Henschel Hs 123  by Mark Davies Henschel Hs 123 was designed as the first dive bomber to equip the new Luftwaffe. The prototype was tested in 1935 and entered service in the autumn of 1936. It was used in Spain, Poland, France and Russia. It proved so rugged […]

One-Of-A-Kind

by Anders Lindgren images by Martin Waligorski   The Cromwell ranks as one of the more successful British tank designs of the World War II. Designed as a successor for Crusader, the Cromwell was based on the late-1940 specification which increased the requirements on the thickness of armour and the […]

Cromwell Mk. IV