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by Roy Hauer The following article is being reprinted from the newsletter of Austin Model Cars Club. Used with the permission of the editor.   Being an avid user of an airbrush I was always hassled by the wife with smelling the fumes when I would clean my airbrush. I […]

Airbrush Cleaner & Thinner Recycler

by Frank Spahr Part II In the first part of this account we took a closer look at Hermeskeil museum’s preserved English Electric Lightning F.2A, along with a selection of other exhibits. Continuing our trip through the museum’s vast collection of aircraft, we will focus this month on the F-100 […]

North American F-100F Super Sabre in Detail

Sitter och tittar på gamla bilder så jag tänkte försöka skanna av en del. Tyvärr verkar skannern vara en dammagnet hur jag än gör så ni får stå ut med prickiga bilder. Hittade dessa bilder av Hkp 9A från flygdagen på Bromma 1998.     Bilder: Björn Bäcklund

Hkp 9A Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm MBB 105

by Rick Kent Nieuports and SPADs under British Management When the excellent Fokker monoplane fighters appeared on the front they greatly outclassed their British and French opponents of whom many were shot down in what the British called the Fokker Scourge. Hence there was a desparately urgent need to design […]

French Fighters in British Service During WW1

text by Martin Waligorski photo by Peter Alsterberg Tomas Lindgren, a colleague from IPMS Stockholm and a productive armour modeller, once came to the club meeting with this quarter-scale model of Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3, to search advice among air modelling ”experts” about painting and finishing aircraft models. The Emil […]

Building The First Aircraft Model

Vi behövde en tavla över depå och vagnpark på jobbet så jag ritade vagnarna och skrev ut på magnetiskt papper. Depån ritades upp i samma skala som vagnarna  på en magnettavla.   Förutom för att hålla koll på var vi har vagnarna stående har den kommit till användning för att […]

Spårvagnsprofiler

by Mats Hammar       ”Arne, if I were you I would test the flamethrower some other time.”     This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in February 2000.

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 7

by Martin Waligorski How Good is Good Enough? The P-40 was the last and best known of Curtiss Hawk series fighters initiated in the 1920s. It’s qualities were, and are, controversial.Criticised by many for poor manoeuvrability, low speed and rate of climb, it was on a verge of being obsolescent […]

Modeller’s Guide to Curtiss P-40 Variants

photos by Phillip Treweek, Kiwi Aircraft Images text by Martin Waligorski The Curtiss P-40 is one of the best-known American fighters of World War II. Despite it’s fame, it was not one of the period’s best performers, outclassed in virtually every way by other fighters of its time. Therefore, as […]

Curtiss P-40E in Detail

Svaret måste bli ja efter att ha varit i Helsingfors.     Denna Citroen var med i tävlingen och den är nog mer korrekt i utförandet än mina äggmodeller även om den är knottrig.   Några pansarvagnar i Lego, visst ser man vad förebilderna är? Jag har faktiskt en gammal […]

Modellexpo 2013 i Helsingfors del 4. Är LEGO modellbygge?

Evolutionary Modelling With Minimal-Price Kits by Frank Spahr Modelling has become tremendously sophisticated over the last years. Not only the after-market suppliers, but also the major companies themselves offer us kits in a previously never-dreamed-of quality, as well in terms of precision, fit and detail. Opening a detail set still […]

Cheap, Yet Not Awful

by Mats Hammar    ”I’m tired of this! Will he never learn to use proper glue?”   This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in March 2000.  

Arne (the Model Builder) No. 8

by Göran Kindlund English translation by Magnus Fridsell    Känns bilen igen? Modellen föreställer en rallybil från mitten av 60-talet. Eller kanske rättare, en OT-bil eftersom de flesta tävlingarna gick under benämningen OT (Orientering och Tillförlitlighet) på den tiden. Utgångsmodellen är en Hellerbyggsats av en ’67 Gordini 1300. Att göra […]

1965 Renault R8 Gordini