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فئات
FINEMOLDS
F-4EJ Kai Phantom
TITOLO
The Toxic Death NightHawk
EDUARD
Spitfire Mk I (early)
An Enigmatic Variation
Andrzej Marchwicki builds Lukgraph’s large-scale ‘Mighty Hunter’.
Big Beautiful Bat
A stunning 1/48 Tu-2T
SPECIAL HOBBY
A-20A/B/DB-7C Havoc/Boston ‘Early Gunships’
Fear Of a Black Cat
Jon Tabinor asks how much more black a 1/72 model can be, with a nocturnal moggy makeover.
Tornadoes Over Italy
Modelling Italian Panavia Tornadoes using Hasegawa 1/72 scale kits Part 1: The IDS Tornado
IPMS UK
Just when you thought it was safe to start coming out of the woodwork, we get hit with a setback. One of the earlier model shows I wanted to attend this year – if you can call August 'early' – was the Coventry and Warwickshire show at the Midland Air Museum. Sadly, the organisers have had to cancel it for 2021.
Marvellous Mustang
José Brito finds that modelling the P-51 is easy with Eduard’s kit
American workhorse
Douglas A-20 Boston/Havoc Part 1
YOELI, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Yoav Efrati buffs up a hitherto camera-shy Meteor.
PLUSMODEL
www.plusmodel.cz First, up from PlusModel’s Aero Line this month is a collection of three different resin upgrade sets for the 1/72 Minicraft Martin PBM 5 Mariner kit.
They also serve who only stand and wait
Jon Tabinor builds Douglas's unglamorous and forgotten workhorse
NORTHERN THUNDER
Ugur Kenel tackles Sweden’s classic canard
Pedro in Spain
Condor Legion HE-111B-2 in 1/48th
Approaching Drumbeat Unheard
The US Navy abdicates its ASW role to the US Army in 1942
Dark Blue and other ‘lost' colours of the US Navy 1941 – 1943
Unlike the majority of the ColourConundrum articles that have appeared in Scale Aircraft Modelling over the last few years, which have been almost entirely based upon the author’s own research, this article is more of a compilation of research carried out by other people that has been published in a number of places over the last forty years or so. Their names and publications should become self-evident upon reading.
A Seagoing Sprite
Kaman UH-2 Seasprite
The IA-58 Pucara in Detail
The IA-58 Pucara (Fortress) was a bi turboprop COIN and close support aircraft, designed by the Argentine Fábrica Militar de Aviones at the end of the 1960s.
STEEL PIGEON
Building the Wingnut Wings 1/32 Jeannin Stahltaube
IUNA FORTOLEZO RE COPADA!
Rick Greenwood thinks Kinetic have captured the castle with their new Pucará
IPMS UK Getting There
By the time you read this we'll be approaching the mid-point of 2021. I have no idea where the past five months have gone.
ATTACK OF THE EAGLES
Ugur Kenel builds builds an early ground-attack ‘Zerstörer’.
Small Scale Stingers
Huw Morgan stirs up a tiny nest of Hornets.
ESCORT
Hasegawa’s 1/48 Shoki as a 47th Sentai Gunned Escort Fighter
RAF 46
Tempest II in 1/48 - A lockdown conversion using Airwaves’ venerable resin set.
Quick Build
AH-64D Long Bow Apache By Rafał Lebioda
Thunderflash. Bang. Wallop. What a picture!
Aurelio Reale models the RF-84F in Italian Air Force colours
Ferocious Eastern Feline
Jeremy Moore strokes Arma’s FM-2 to purr-fection.