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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 […]

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Bilder på Svedinos J 35J  Draken                                                       Bilder: Björn Bäcklund

SAAB J 35J Draken

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

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

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

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 This page is a continuation of Camouflage and Markings of No. 74 Sqn RAF, Part 1. It covers post-war history and aircraft of this famous RAF unit. The Jet Age 74 Squadron was re-equipped as the RAF’s third Meteor squadron in June 1945 at Colerne in Wiltshire […]

Camouflage and markings of No. 74 Squadron RAF, Part ...

  På Modellexpo i Helsingfors fanns denna motor utställd.   Om jag förstod texten rätt är det en Daimler Benz DB 605 A-1 till en Messerschmitt Bf 109 G   Bilder: Björn Bäcklund    

Daimler Benz DB 605 A-1

by Rick Kent ”I Fear No Man” Throughout aviation history, tiger motifs have been increasingly popular, culminating in the contemporary Tiger Meets. I recently completed a series of profiles devoted to the very first Tiger aviation unit in the world – No.74 RAF Squadron. The unit was formed in 1917 […]

Camouflage and markings of No. 74 Squadron RAF, Part 1

by Peter Ibes, IPMS Netherlands This article was first published in ‘Modelbouw in Plastic’ – a magazine of IPMS Netherlands . Used with permission of the Editor. Winter Camouflage for Luftwaffe aircraft When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the Luftwaffe Generalstab thought that the war would be over before […]

Painting Realistic Winter Camouflage

by Rick Kent P-51 in the U.S. Service The Mustang did not gain it’s immortal fame until this American airframe was married with the British Merlin engine. Providing long-range escort to B-17s and B-24s, the Mustang carried the air war to the heart of Germany. By war’s end, P-51s had […]

Camouflage and markings of North American P-51 Mustang, Part ...

by Rick Kent I believe some readers will raise their eyebrows seeing that I have captioned the most popular German fighter ever Me 109 rather than Bf 109. Well, there is an explanation. During my work as the librarian of the RAF Museum I studied several copies of German books […]

Camouflage and markings of Messerschmitt Me 109