Artiklar

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, Mars

av Joachim Smith, IPMS -454 För ungefär ett år sen satte jag mig ner att fundera över min verklighet som modellbyggare. Ålder: 51 år. Tid över för att bygga: mindre och mindre. Antal färdiga modeller det senaste året: två (nästan). Halvfärdiga projekt: ett tjugotal. Obyggda modeller på vinden: en bit […]

Modellbygge från en ny vinkel

by Janne Nilsson The Panzerkampfwagen III represented, along its contemporary Panzerkampfwagen IV a giant leap in the design of tanks. These were the vehicles the new German military leaders such as Guderian wanted to develop the Blitzkrieg tactics, which showed to be so devastatingly succesful during the first war years… […]

Modelling Tamiya’s Panzer III L

by Anders Nowotny Helsingborgs Modellbyggarförening, Sweden The origin of SAAB Safir If you have the Heller 1/72 SAAB Safir in stock there is now the possibility to build the experimental aircraft SAAB 201 or a Safir A. This is due to a newly released conversion kit from Broplan of Poland. […]

Backdating Heller’s SAAB Safir to SAAB 201 Experimental Aircraft

A review of the Fujimi Supermarine Spitfire Mark XIVc (and V-1 Flying Bomb)  by  Jeff Warshaw All those magic moments… For me, as a scale modeler, there are two moments in the process which are almost magical. The first is opening the box and seeing the kit for the first […]

Shelf Space

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: Februari

av Janne Nilsson     This little scene started with an injection-moulded figure from Tamiya in 1/35th scale. The figure one was first brush-painted using Humbrol enamels, then shaded and highlighted using pastel chalks. The whole project was executed to illustrate some basic figure painting techniques for a magazine article […]

Trängsoldat

Photos courtesy of Gary Hethcoat, The Virtual Hangar Text by Martin Waligorski Luftwaffe 1946? I must admit that when I first saw a Dragon kit of Horten Ho IX (see the end of this article) a few years ago, I thought ”well, another one of those Luftwaffe 1946 paper aircraft”. […]

Horten IX (Gotha Go 229) in detail

A Review of the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Yakovlev Yak-1 by Jeff Warshaw Not for the beginner For several years I have been reading professional magazine reviews of Accurate Miniatures highly-detailed kits. From the articles, it seemed like the modeler had to be a top-notch, A-1 competitor (the kind who airbrush […]

Legacy of the White Rose

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 […]

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