Artiklar

by Magnus Fridsell Wallace and Gromit …   …have been long time favourites both with me and with my girlfriend Ulrika, so when the newsletter from Hannants dropped in to my mailbox I promptly ordered both the available kits. Those are from the film ”A Close Shave” from the middle […]

Airfix Wallace and Gromit Kits

by Mats Hammar     ”Don’t worry about Arne. He’s just sulky that we didn’t go to Crete where the Germans conducted operation Mercury.”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in December 1999  

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 5

text and drawings by Martin Waligorski model photos by Peter Alsterberg Not only D-Day   Many aircraft color schemes require painting multicolor stripes of different kinds. The most well-known examples are of course D-Day stripes, but the stripe markings were widely used on other occasions. Multicolor Reich’s Defense tail bands […]

Painting Stripes

by Anders Isaksson The Right Element   While the low-visibility color schemes of modern jet aircraft can look rather dull, I really think the faded and well-weathered look of the U.S. Navy aircraft can be both interesting and attractive. I have modelled a number of F-14 variants earlier, but never […]

Building the Airborne Tomcat

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg   André Kristoffersen is a modeller who isn’t easily put off by complex projects. This stripped-down model of Fieseler Fi-156 Storch is in 1/72nd scale!     The basis of the model is Eduards kit no.7008 Fieseler Fi 156 Storch ”Strip Down”. […]

Stripped-down Stork

Building a 1964 Falcon Futura Sprint by Göran Kindlund English translation by Magnus Fridsell Ford i Monte Carlo I början på 60-talet beslöt Ford att ”go racing” i stor stil. Det mest kända resultatet är väl 4 LeMans-segrar på ”raken” i slutet av 60-talet med den legendariska Ford GT40. Mindre […]

Ford Goes Racing

by Mats Hammar      ”No, Ove, this one doesn’t count. We’re only comparing who has the most arms and legs in 1/35 scale.”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in January 2000.

Arne (the model builder) No. 6

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

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Bilder på Svedinos J 35J  Draken                                                       Bilder: Björn Bäcklund

SAAB J 35J Draken

by Janne Nilsson English translation by Martin Waligorski   This is my little adventure into the Wild West. In the early morning hours of January 13, 1929, an 80 year old man died peacefully in his sleep in a rented cottage in Los Angeles. The casual observer of the time […]

Wyatt Earp at O.K. Corral

Karolinska ryttare från Armemuseet             Bild: Björn Bäcklund

Karolinska ryttare

by Frank Spahr Filling Being a dentist by profession, and modeller by interest, I have been using some tools and materials from dental supply that I think might be interesting for other readers of these pages. What can dentistry do for the modeller? Quite a lot, actually, apart from dental […]

What Dentistry Can Do for the Modeller

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

Tack vare hjälpsamheten hos Svedinos museum kunde jag ta en del närbilder av prototyp nr.1.                       Riktiga flygplan är byggda i korrugerad plåt.  Till min glädje fanns det en bit även här.                 […]

SAAB 35-1 Drakenprototypen