Artiklar

No. 27 by Mats Hammar      ”I need a tube of filler, Humbrol No. 63 Flesh and Tamiya’s new M8! Hurry on, I’m carrying out the garbage!”     This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in May 2001.

Arne (the Model Builder)

The Classic US Medium Tank in Winter Camouflage by Anders Isaksson   The Sherman medium tank was the major AFV of the Allied forces in World War II. With more than 55.000 produced in all versions it was used on every major front throughout the war and beyond. The five […]

M4 Sherman

by Martin Waligorski The Hawker Hart and its many derivations, the Demon, Audax, Hardy, Hind, Osprey and Hector must have been the multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Constructed by Sydney Camm, the prototype Hart flew for the first time in 1928 with production machines reaching RAF service in 1930. A […]

Hawker Hart in Detail

Building Dragon’s Kit of the Russian Main Battle Tank by Mikael Isaksson History of the T-80 At the beginning of the 80’s, a new Soviet main battle tank was to be developed from the T-72 concept. Having solved the technical problems with the automatic loader that was installed on the […]

T-80

The P-47 Thunderbolt of the Fuerza Aerea de Chile (FACH)  by Peter Ibes, IPMS Netherlands   The end of war and the advent of the jet fighter did not mean the end of the career of one of the most famous American fighters of World War 2, the P-47 Thunderbolt. […]

South American ’Jug’

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Modellbygge bland kärnstridsspetsar och besökare   Bild och Text;  Lars Befring, Joakim Hultman   I ett sammarbete med Armémuseum höll vi ett kombinerat Byggmöte och Prova-på-Bygge i museet. Dom första tappra samlades tidigt lördag morgon och ställde upp bord och organiserade byggplatser innan museet öppnade klockan 11. Sedan rullade byggandet på med avbrott för fika, lunch, samtal, beundran av andras byggande, kakor, byggteorisamtal, förevisning för nyfikna, fika, undvikande av tunnor, utdelning av tunnor och mycket mycket mer! Vi hade besök från Linköping och Malmö och några IPMS-hangarounds som normalt inte dyker upp på veckomöten. Prova-på-Bygget lockade! det är alltid lika kul att se hur fokuserade våra besöksbyggare är och hur kreativa dom […]

Bygghelg på Armémuseum

by Göran Nordin   I was quite surprised when a fellow modeller more experienced than myself approached me at one of our club meetings and asked (a rookie like me) how I had managed to get my Chieftain Mk.5 so muddy and weathered. He also inquired whether I would like […]

Hit The Dirt, Modellers!

by Sven-Åke Grufstedt Introduction Many years ago I was very into modelling but for many reasons I put the hobby on hold and now, 20 years after my last kit was built I started again. And I can tell you that it was truly an eye-opener to realise how much the […]

Building and Painting the Revell 1/72 Merkava Mk. III

by Martin Waligorski Many vintage and not-so-vintage aircraft had their landing or navigational lights incorporated in the wing leading edge, its lower surface or the surface of the fuselage, with the transparent glazing flush with the aircraft’s skin, a good example being this photo of the Hawker Hurricane. Also, camera ports […]

Landing Lights From Cello Tape

1/48 DML Focke-Wulf Fw 190D by Lee Micheltree   Yes, this Dora (that’s her name) came out pretty well……better than I’d hoped. She’s actually the first Axis aircraft I have ever completed, which is odd considering that I have been modelling for 35 years. Therefore deciding on her camouflage scheme was fairly […]

Never Built a Luftwaffe Aircraft…

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Using Photoshop Techniques for Finishing the 1/32 Bf 109 G-2 by Anders Hjortsberg Introduction I returned to this hobby about a year and half ago after something like a 13 year break, give or take a year… For some years now I’ve been doing paint schemes for flight simulator games […]

Grislawski’s Yellow 10

1:72 Fujimi Tachikawa Ki 55 (Ida) by Mark Davies   The Ki 55 was the trainer development of the diminuitive Tachikawa Ki 36 army co-operation aircraft. Although the opartional career of the Ki 36 was fairly short, its excellent handling characteristics and solid reliability made the Japanese Army realize that it was ideal for […]

Japanese Harvard

by Rafi Ben-Shahar Unlike the Luftwaffe aircraft, Allied aircraft often lacked the diversity in camouflage schemes and conspicuous field modifications. As a result, the modeller is frequently limited to a few representative schemes that cover the majority of aircraft in Allied service. This predicament is particularly disturbing when one comes across excellent […]

Variations to the Tamiya 1/48 Corsair

by Martin Waligorski In the first part of this article (click here for part one ) I described a few techniques to produce scale markings by painting rather then decals. I have also shown examples from my own modelling table, where these techniques coupled with a bit of patience produced […]

Don’t Rely On Decals, Part Two