Features

Jim Whitbread builds the big and beautiful Airfix 1:24 Mossie. His text includes useful construction notes, accompanied by photos of the finished model.

Torsten Rossman [blackwidow] has sent some images of his superb looking Mitsubishi T-2 and the Mitsubishi F-1 built from the Hasegawa 1/48 kits.

Jim Whitbread has sent in photo's of two combatants in the Battle of Britain. A Bf 109E-3 and a Spitfire Mk Ia.

Alan McNeilly bring us some photographs of the Gipsy Moth currently on display at RAF Hendon.

Jean Luc Formery (TedMamere) has sent in a great build feature of the 1/48th, Great Wall Hobby, Focke Wulf Fw 189 A-2.

Alan McNeilly (AlanL) has sent in pictures of the de Havilland DH9A, that is located at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon.

Alan McNeilly (AlanL) has sent in some pictures of the Hawker Hart Trainer, thats displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon.

Alan McNeilly has sent in a very nice set of photos of the Fieseler Fi156 Storch at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

Young modeller Nick Zourbakis (NickZour) has sent in some pictures of his Tamiya 1/48th P-51B Mustang, which was built for the Mustang campaign.

Jean Barby has sent in some great pictures of his 1/48th scale Loire 130 seaplane.

Péter Lõrincz has sent us photos of his superb quarterscale Bristol Fighter.

Luciano Sartonetti gets rare access to the Midland Air Museum's Sea Vixen.

Marko Vidmar (vidmarko) has sent in a report on the recent Slovenian Open & Nationals show.

Steffen Arndt has sent in some great pictures of his Hobby Boss 1/48th Me 262A-1a/U4.

Peter Allen returns with his latest selection of German WW2 paper projects, each illustrated with superb colour profiles.

Andy Brazier has done his annual report on the recent IPMS (UK) Scale Model World show held in Telford, England.

Jean-Luc Formery describes how he built his beautiful Czech Model T-33 Shooting Star in Luftwaffe markings.

Steffen Arndt has sent us photos of his Tamiya Spit Mk. Vb Trop, boosted with a number of aftermarket extras.

Peter Plattner took Planet Models' resin kit of the Horten IV flying wing and threw the works at it!

Magnus Fridsell (magnusf) has sent some great pictures of the recent C4 show in Sweden.

Nick Zourbakis (NickZour) has sent in some pictures of his great 1/32nd Special Hobby Airacobra Mk.1, with added Eduard P.E sets.

Justin McCracken (Keeperofsouls2099) has sent in some great pics of his 1/48th Hasegawa F-22 Raptor.

Here's a second chance to see Dave Johnson's fantastic 1:32 Ki-44, worthy winner of July's Dragon MoM contest.

Dave Johnson has sent us photos of his impressive quarterscale Tamiya A6M5/5a Zero.

Arie Donker has sent us photos of his beautiful Hasegawa Spritfire Mk. 1.

Peter Wilkinson brings us this writeup detailing his double build of 78th FG bubbletops using kits from Tamiya and Hasegawa.

Andy Brazier has taken some pictures of the Battle of Britain Memorial which is dedicated to Churchill's "Few" who fought in the skies above Britain during W.W.2.

Terri Werner shows us her superb Roden quarterscale B.E.2c.

The first of the USAF “Century Series” jet fighters, the North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre was the supersonic follow-on to their highly successful F-86 Sabre--itself a follow-on to their supreme P-51 Mustang.

Jean Barby shows us his masterful build of PCM's quarterscale Macchi MC 200.

Steffen Arndt has sent us photos of his quarterscale F4F-3 and FM-2.

Warren Inman shows us his way of simulating wood finishing just using paints and pigments.

Jim Starkweather brings us back over 500 aircraft images from the show in Phoenix, Arizona.

Bill Cross goes to town updating Revell's old largescale Bf 110 nightfighter.

John Stournaras has sent us a set of photos of his superb rendition of Steve Pisanos's "Miss Plainfield" of the 4th Fighter Group.

Justin McCracken shows us his finished Kinetic 1:48 E-2C Hawkeye.

Michal Sindera paints a vivid picture of an exciting day at the Kraków Air Show.

Spanish modeller and freelance miniatures sculptor Tomas Castaño describes how he built his superb Spanish Civil War diorama.

Louis Carabott shows us another great diorama, this time set in Malta.

There were some really excellent aircraft models on display at the recent Bedzin Model Festival in Poland.

Torsten Rossmann (BlackWidow)has sent us some pictures of the Kurpfälzer Modellbautage 2010 Expo which took place in Mannheim.

Mikael Terfors (OEFFAG_153) has Converted Roden's 1:32 scale Albatros DIII to the OEFFAG version throwing in some Battle Axe bits. The result is very nice as you can see.

Here is a report with plenty of photos of our visit to the MPM company located near Prague in the Czech Republic. The company is well known for its excellent and always very interesting short run and resin aircraft model kits.

The Battle of the Ore Mountains museum located in Kovarska, in the Northwest of the Czech Republic, is an homage to the fallen pilots of the September 11th, 1944 air battle that took place in the area. It's a labor of love for the curator, M. Jan Zdiarsky

I had the chance to visit the Eduard company in Obrnice (Czech Republic) in early June and here is a full report with plenty of photos.

Here is a full build report by Jaroslaw Kierat (jkierat) of Eduard's 1:48 scale Grumman F6F-5N Night Hellcat. The model has been included in a very nice diorama setting.

Matthew Quiroz shares his 1/48th F-105G with this On display feature.

Matthew Quiroz has written a very helpful step by step guide on his post shading technique.

Péter Lőrincz presents his superbly detailed 1:72 Austrian Albatros.