Artiklar

by Martin Waligorski photos by Martin Waligorski, Mattias Linde and Phillip Treweek   The Improvised Excellence As is widely known, the Supermarine Spitfire was Britain’s premiere fighter throughout the entire war. Pilots found it to be agile and dependable, it was a fine air-combat plane capable of great speed and […]

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX in Detail

by Bruce Grinstead   This article has first appeared in Post Strike – the newsletter of IPMS Ottawa (www.ipmsottawa.ca). Published here with kind permission of the Editor – Ed.   This article is a brief overview of painting a figure face… intended as a guideline so that you can start […]

Painting a Face

Captured P-51B in Luftwaffe markings  by Ricardo Dacoba   With the advent of the North American P-51B, the USAAF finally received an aircraft which could compete on equal terms with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and later models of the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Previously reluctant to ”not conceived here” Mustang fighter, […]

In Wrong Hands

Lockheed F-104C in shining metal by Mike Howard   The Monogram 1/72 F-104C I don’t remember exactly when or where I first saw an F-104, but since that time long ago, I’ve carried a special fascination for the gleaming silver Missile with a Man in it. Though I own many […]

Missile with a Man in it

model by Göran Sebardt text by Magnus Fridsell photos by Peter Alsterberg In addition to my J 22 walkaround article this of this month, here is a quick review of the available plastic kits of this Swedish fighter. Kit-wise we are quite well served – albeit only in 1/72 scale. […]

J 22 in Kit Form

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Photos by Andreas Samuelsson and Magnus Fridsell Text by Magnus Fridsell and Martin Waligorski A closer look at the Swedish enigma fighter The FFVS J 22 was conceived as an emergency fighter when all aircraft orders placed abroad fell through about a year after the breakout of the Second World […]

FFVS J 22 in Detail

by Christopher Holland Building houses for braille scale is kind of tricky. Although there are lots of injection-moulded plastic buildings from the world of railway modelling, they tend to be expensive and often a bit to small – the HO railroad scale being 1/87 as compared to 1/72 or 1/76 […]

Building Houses in Braille Scale

A scene from the Battle of Britain, 1940 by Anders Isaksson   In the history of the past century, 1940 was an eventful year, even if the news were mostly bad. By the middle of June the German army had forced all British forces to withdraw from Belgium and France […]

Made it Home…

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IPMS Stockholm hade som vanligt sitt månadsmöte på Midsommargården. Lars var upptagen så därför lovade jag att ge en liten inblick. Det var ganska många som mött upp trots att en vis mättnad på modeller brukar infinna sig efter en tävling och det var ju ganska många från Stockholm som […]

Månadsmöte November

by Christopher Holland   I took a little side-step from ordinary modeling by doing a Space Marine diorama. Amazingly it got me first place in the Small Scale Dioramas at the IPMS Open 2001 in Stockholm. Here we have five Space Marines on patrol on some far-off planet. As you […]

Space Marines Securing Sector 45.12

model by Lennart Malmros text by Martin Waligorski Together with Opel Blitz, the Mercedes-Benz L3000 3-Ton diesel truck was one of the primary transport vehicles of the German Army during World War II. 7434 units were made. The truck was powered with 6-cylinder 95hp engine. Lennart Malmros built this 1/35 […]

Mercedes Benz L3000

Bringing the Old Testors F-104C Kit up to Modern Standards by Alejandro Nuñez   The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the most extreme designs of ”Kelly” Johnson, Lockheed’s famous chief designer. It grew out of the combat experience of the Korean conflict, where many of the American pilots felt that the […]

With Plastic Card and Kitchen Foil

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Följande bilder av den tyska enmansubåten Biber fotograferades på Deutches Technikmuseum i oktober 2012. Ytterligare fakta finns i en uppsjö på internet och jag väljer därför att inte publicera ytterligare uppgifter här. Kameran som användes var en liten kompaktkamera och det är en anledning till att jag kunde fotografera innanmätet […]

Biber, walk-around

Modelling Zvezda’s 1/35 T-72B/EDZ by Thomas Johansson   Many of us Swedes remember how it was to grow up in the shadow of the Red Bear, that is probably the main reason why many modellers are still intrigued by Russian armour, myself included. In the Swedish Defence military exercises during the […]

T-72: Red Armour

1/48 Kit Roundup by Rafi Ben-Shahar   The 1/48 Spitfire Mk. IX and its twin, the Mk. XVI have been a problematic issue in plastic modelling. Several companies tried to satisfy a seemly large segment in the modelling community with this classic and beautiful aircraft. However, results were disappointing and […]

In Search of the Perfect Spitfire Mk. IX