Features

Frederick Boucher continues our tour of the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

Marko Vidmar sends interesting images from the 7th Black Queen, Zagreb, Croatia.

Tony Prince works wonders on the 50+ years-old classic Hawk McDonnell Banshee.

Entoni Seperic brings us a build story of the ancient MPM's 1:48 Aero C.104 (Bücker Bü-131 “Jungmann”) in interesting Croatin WWII markings.

The Delta Dawn campaign recently concluded and was themed around building an aircraft built using the Delta wing form. Here we present the finished entries for the Campaign.

Steffen Arndt has sent us photos of his fine Eduard quarterscale Emil in striking Romanian markings.

Mark Chisolm is our winner of the August Model of the Month contest.

Jim Whitbread brings us some photos of his Hobbyboss 1/32 Spitfire Mk Vb Trop build.

The XI Masters of Miniatures show was held in Senta, Serbia August 25th, 2012. Marko Vidmar presents a selection of the models on show.

William Stanley's fictional account of World War I flying inspired this vignette of an FE-2B crew about to board their aircraft. Mikael Terfors presents his build of the Wingnut Wings kit.

September's Model of the Month contest is now open for entries.

Here we present the entrants for the recently finished Fw190 Campaign

Frederck Boucher presents a walkaround of the sole remaining Douglas F5D Skylancer. Astronaut Neil Armstrong flew this aircraft between September of 1960 and September 1962 for Nasa while evolving recovery procedures for the Boeing DynaSoar project.

Doug Nelson builds the Silver Wings 1/32 Siskin III straight out of the box. Doug left the model unpainted to show us exactly what the Silver Wings kit provides.

July's Model of the Month contest was won my Paul's hard-to-miss FW-190

The August Model of the Month Contest is now open for entries

Artur Domański presents us his recently finished Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 in a giant 1:24 scale. His model is a conversion of Trumpeter's G-10 kit. Unusually Artur has finished his build with RAF roundels and Polish checkerboard on the engine hood. R

The Small is Beautiful campaign recently concluded and was themed around building an aircraft in the smaller scale of 1/144. Here we present the finished entries for the Campaign.

Mike Wolfe's Tamiya P-47 in an 'at rest' vignette

Samantha Scoles has provided Photos of her latest build of the Tamiya 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109 E-3

Frederick Boucher presents a series of articles from his recent visit to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Part 1 takes us through the Early Years gallery and then showcases two Japanese Naval aircraft from the Pacific War.

Doug Nelson has provided Photos of his latest build of a Focke Wulf Fw190 A-6

Miklos Bute is our winner for the June Model of the Month. Miklos' entry is the Fine Moulds Bf-109.

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On display at the National Museum of the USAF is this intriguing X-copter. Housed in the Presidential Gallery on a secure part of Wright-Patterson AFB, there are special access requirements.

2nd Lt. Frank Luke Jr. ranks second among America's First World War aces, flaring like a meteor across the sky in a SPAD XIII C.1.

Todd Michalak demonstrates his extreme weathering techniques on a sunken Zero using a range of products from K4.

Ryszard Holak sheres with us photographs of his recently finished conversion based on 1:32 scale Wingnut Wings kit of DH.9a „Ninak”.

Borys Szczypka has sent us photos of his beautifully detailed and finished Wingnut Wings Albatros D.V.

Luciano Satornetti shows off a Westland Sea King HAS.6

This is the last part of a long tour at Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków. After visiting exhibitions in different hangars and building today we'll take a tour around the outdoor display.

Presenting the winner of 2012's first Model of the Month

Stewart Askin presents his take on what the RNZAF's F-16 fleet should have looked like.

Karl How shares some of the aircraft models from the 2012 Irish Model Soldier Society Show

Tomasz Chacewicz shows and describes his adventure with the Eduard model kit of Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi - a Japanese single use airplane designed for carrying out the suicide attacks by Kamikaze pilots.

Marko Vidmar has sent us a report on the recent SVM Festival Of Modelling in Slovenia.

Borys Szczypka brings us a selection of photos of his latest model, Roden's 1/32 Albatros D.I

Ryszard Holak has sent us gallery of his recently finished 1:32 scale British single-seat biplane carrier-borne fighter aircraft - a Fairey Flycatcher.

Jurgen Schott gives us his Dassault Super Etendard in the markings of Argentina's Navy during the Falklands War of 1982

Hoosier Air Museum is located next to De Kalb County Airport (KGWB), Auburn, Indiana.

Brigadier General Robin Olds is one of USAF's better known aces, with kills in World War II and Vietnam. In WWII he flew in the 434th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group. Both Brig. Gen. Olds and the 434th are featured in the Hoosier Air Museum, Aubur

David Tipps' favourite hobbies are building models and photography. Using Photoshop, he's found a creative way to combine them.

Jan Etal brings us a show report for BuffCon 29, IPMS Buffalo's annual show.

Randy Harvey [HARV] took these photos at an airshow in the 1980s. He shares them with us now.

Jim Whiitbred presents his Dragon 1/32 Bf 110 in the colours of 5./ZG 1

Jim Whitbread's 1/48 Tamiya Corsair

Sven Harjacek reviews Cyber-Hobby's new 1:72 Helldiver in this First Look video.

Nick Zourbakis shares with us his Fortress III with added detail in our first Junior Modeller's Showcase

Rafał shares his build of the challenging AZ Model 1/48 He 70 Blitz in the colours of JG. 2 Rochtoffen Staff flight in 1940

Bill Cross shares with us his Revell 1/32 AR 196 stowed on its shipboard catapult.

Steffan Arndt builds the new Eduard 1/48 Bf-109-E1