Artiklar

Academy 1/72 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt by Martin Waligorski   Working with one of the recent updates of this site I noticed to my dismay that although I constantly keep writing articles for this magazine, it’s been over three years since I have shown any of my own models on these […]

Adventure in Weathered Metal

by Tomasz Gronczewski  This month Tomasz Gronczewski provides an in-depth colour analysis of two applications of the RLM 74/75/76 camouflage on early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s – one from the Channel front, another from the Tunisian campaign (Ed.) Fw 190A-4 Flown by Siegfried Schnell Both Siegfried Schnell and his Fw 190A-4 […]

Early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s

by Bob Laskodi   C’mon people, rigging a WWI airplane is not rocket science, and takes no more modelling skill than filling a seam! You can do this! Rigging Truthfully, rigging an airplane is not difficult. It is time consuming and tedious. First… First you need a plan. You should […]

Rigging a World War I Aircraft

model by Andreas Herbst text and images by Martin Waligorski   Once in a while I see a model at a show which besides the admiration for the fine workmanship stirs up some deeper emotions the way that art can do. It happens with figures, vignettes and dioramas more often […]

Payback at Peleliu

Detailing Heller’s 1/400 Gneisenau by Ulf Lundberg English translation by Martin Waligorski    Note for Swedish readers   Den här artikeln finns även tillgänglig på svenska i form av ett PDF-fil, 435 KB Hellers_Gneisenau_av_Ulf_Lundberg Painting The hull, superstructure and all the subassemblies were washed with white spirit and then primed with a coat of Gunze Mr Primer. For the painting I used Vallejo […]

Kriegsmarine’s Handsome Battlecruiser, Part 2: Painting

Detailing Heller’s 1/400 Gneisenau by Ulf Lundberg English translation by Martin Waligorski    Note for Swedish readers   Den här artikeln finns även tillgänglig på svenska i form av ett PDF-fil, 435 KB Hellers_Gneisenau_av_Ulf_Lundberg   Heller’s 1/400 Gneisenau built, detailed and finished by the author   About the Ship The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of Kriegsmarine’s warships […]

Kriegsmarine’s Handsome Battlecruiser, Part 1: Construction

Dressing up Eduard’s Profipack P-40N by Szymon Grzywocz English translation by Martin Waligorski   As it often happens, the inspiration for building this model came from a book. In this case, it was a Squadron/Signal Walkaround no. 8 on Curtiss P-40 that provided the necessary ”kick”. Similarly to other items […]

”Watch My Form”

by Mark Davies The Fouga CM-170 Magister was the aircraft which pioneered the idea of primary jet trainer. Created to meet the Armée de l’Air specification, the Magister sprang from the previous work of designer Pierre Mauboussin, who was known for fitting small turbojet engines to light aircraft and gliders. […]

Airfix Fouga Magister

Text and photos by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, with additional historical background by Martin Waligorski There is a sad lack of civilian models on our modelling tables, in particular considering that there actually are quite a few kits available out there. One of my favourites is the Airfix model of the Piper […]

Piper Cherokee Arrow in Detail

model by Marcus Mohlin text and images by Martin Waligorski One of the big surprises of the operation Barbarossa was the realisation that German tanks, particularly the newest Panzer IV could not match modern Soviet tanks in face-to-face combat. Despite the fairly high rate of attrition in the previous Blitzkrieg […]

VK 30.02 Panther Prototype

Hasegawa 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk. I  by Tomasz Gronczewski     The man Witold Urbanowicz was one of the outstanding Polish aces. Although he was a bit overscored by Stanislaw Skalski with his 18 individual and 3 shared victories, Urbanowicz had at least four claims to fame: his first victory […]

Mr. Urbanowicz and his Hurricane

1/72 Breguet Br 27 from Azur  by Mark Davies   I didn’t know anything about this plane until I saw it advertised as a new Azur release. I can’t resist most French aircraft, and this one reminded me of the planes in cartoon Dick Dastardly and Mutly from the 1970’s. […]

I Can’t Resist French Aircraft!

The IAI Mirage V Dagger from the Falklands War  by Ricardo Dacoba   A Short Lesson of Modern History   After the experience of the Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force approached Avions Marcel Dassault with a requirement for the development of a simplified version of Mirage III. The result […]

Argentinean Dagger

by Mark Davies   The SM. 79 was one of the most important Italian bombers of World War II. Before the war it established numerous records in its racing and military versions, and served with a number of diverse countries from the mid-30’s until after World War II. It was […]

1/72 Airfix Savoia Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero

Heller’s Me 262B Night Fighter in 1/72 Scale by Martin Waligorski   Much has been written before on the web about the Messerschmitt Me 262, so if you don’t know anything about this airplane, Google it! Suffice to say that the two-seater Me 262B variant of the Messerschmitt’s jet fighter […]

Don’t Be Afraid of Raised Panel Lines