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By Dan Kut additional photos by Robert Lundin A couple of years ago someone on this site’s discussion forum asked for cockpit pictures of the Swedish Skyraider target tug. That somehow dwelled in the corner of my mind, waiting for the perfect moment to strike… Then when a friend of […]

Douglas Skyraider in Detail

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by Martin Waligorski I’m sure that many fellow model builders out there will agree that masking and painting wheel hubs of vehicles, road wheels of AFVs or aircraft is an ungrateful task. If you are lucky enough to model large-scale modern kit it may contain wheel hubs and tires as […]

Masking Wheels

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Sometimes it is difficult to know why modellers get particularly interested in certain subjects – they just do. Göran Sebardt’s has meticulously built this collection of Tp2s – pre-war Junkers W 33/34s in Swedish service. The collection consists of only few aircraft […]

Tp2 (Junkers W 33/34) in Swedish Service

by Martin Waligorski Photos: Martin Waligorski Everyone’s favourite Many aircraft historians would agree that the only pre-war German aircraft type not matched by the Allies throughout the entire conflict was the lightweight Fieseler Fi 156 Storch. Popular among the Germans, their allies as well as their counterparts, the Fi 156 […]

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch in Detail

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

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 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

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

by Martin Waligorski This article describes a few techniques I have tried and used to paint markings on scale models. I hope to show that you don’t need to rely solely on decals for giving that final touch to your model. In fact, many types of markings can be easily […]

Don’t Rely On Decals, Part One

by Stefan Eriksson drawings by Anders Nowotny About Blue Peter In the recent years the Swedish Air Force has been busy painting aircrafts to celebrate different kinds of anniversaries or commemorate end of operations. As part of this trend, we have already seen many colourful J 35 Drakens. As the […]

Saab JA 37 Viggen Blå Petter

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Scratchbuilding a 1939 Country Bus model by Sven Örnberg text based on Sven Örnbergs model description, written by Martin Waligorski   (The text of this feature is based on construction notes by Sven Örnberg. I decided to retain the 1st person perspective from Sven’s original description of the build I […]

From Anten to Alingsås

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

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