Artiklar

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg Do you remember the Swordfish-marked J-35 Draken from the March Issue of our Magazine? Here is another of ”the last”. Mats Lindegren built and detailed this model from the Hasegawa kit. The model represents a J-35 J ser.no. 35586 serving with F10 […]

Drakens are Forever

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 November

by Göran Kindlund En replika av Björn Waldegårds vinnarbil i Monte Carlo rallyt 1969.  Modellen kommer från Fujimis Enthusiast Models serie. Denna serie från Fujimi är sannolikt de mest detaljerade bilbyggsatser som finns i skala 1/25. Jag har inte ändrat så mycket mer än försett den med tävlingsattribut – stolar, […]

Porsche 911S

by Frank Spahr Given the popularity of Airfix Wallace and Gromit offering, here’s an alternative for those inspired by such kits. Just in short: Werner´s a comic figure rather popular in Germany. He´s a biker, one who constantly fiddles around his bikes and equally constantly has trouble with the police […]

How about Werner?

by Martin Waligorski Bf 109 Reprise… When this webzine was started almost three years ago, I wrote: Could the IPMS Stockholm’s site do without a decent Bf 109 walkaround? Of course not…As our veteran readers will remember, we’ve been on this subject twice already: The NASM Bf-109G-6 was our walkaround […]

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 in Detail

by Charles Metz with contributions by others as noted I believe it goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: scribing panel lines on a model is a technique that requires some experience to get right. Four distinct issues arise in scribing a plastic model: Choosing the tool to use; […]

Scribing Panel Lines

by Mats Hammar   ”It is really pretty, darling. Think that you’ve found a piece of World War 2 junk after only three days.”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in October 1999.    

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 3

by Göran Kindlund English translation by Magnus Fridsell En klassisk, svensk (europeisk?) Street Machine från 60-talet: En Folkvagn med Porschemotor. Även det ett klubbprojekt i Capital City Modelers, att bygga Tamiya:s VW efter eget huvud. Porschemotorn kommer från Fujimis Enthusiast Models Porsche 356 Carrera, som även fått släppa till fälgar […]

Modifying the 1966 VW Beetle

by Göran Kindlund English translation by Magnus Fridsell   1958 Chevrolet Impala, renoveringsobjekt När vi startade Capital City Modelers så ordnade vi ett klubbprojekt. Med hjälp av Harambee Hobby fick vi köpa en låda modeller till inköpspris så vi kunde dela ut en modell till samtliga medlemmar. Uppgiften var att […]

Chevy Impala, Restoration Object

by Rick Kent Gloster Gladiator in Profile Throughout aviation history, few aircraft reached the level of design elegance equal to that of British biplanes at the peak of their development in the 1930s. Classic designs like Hawker Hind, Fury or Gloster Gladiator all prove the point. The Gladiator was produced […]

Camouflage and markings of Gloster Gladiator

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Mats Hammar… …is the author of this action-packed diorama where German troops of an anti-tank unit are trying to get the Pak 40 gun rolling. Mats entitled it Regroup! Normandy 1944 The visual axis of the composition is formed by the vehicle […]

Regroup! Normandy 1944

by Mats Hammar   ”Broken again? Of course, Arne didn’t put an engine inside!”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in November 1999.

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 4

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg How many Spitfires can you see on this picture? There are four, says Andreas Bradley, the modeller behind this apparently newly-started collection of Spitfires. What you see is one Spit Mk. IX in 1/72nd scale, one in 1/144th, and two more of […]

Spitfire x 4

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg   Type XXI represented the peak of German U-boat development, and was much copied even long after the end of World War II. Derived from the hull of the type XVIII, the type XXI had a diesel-electric engine system comparable to that […]

UBoot Type XXI (With Interior)

by Frank Spahr Part III In the first and second parts of this series devoted to Hermeskeil aircraft museum in Germany, we looked at two massive fighters: English Electric Lightning F.2A and a North American F-100F Super Sabre. A closer look at the Republic RF-84F will conclude the series. The […]

Republic RF-84F Thunderflash in Detail