Whether you are just entering the hobby or re-acquainting yourself with it, this book provides simple step-by-step advice on how to get started on a build regardless of whether it is a ship, tank, aircraft or spaceship along with guidance on tools and equipment. The wealth of handy tips on basic modelling techniques includes eliminating seams, ......
Modelling plans in 1/32. 1/48, 1/72 and 1/144 scale of the G-6 variant of the famous Me Bf 109 German fighter aircraft of World War II, featuring eight A3 size scale plans.
After the end of World War Two, Europes air forces were keen to rebuild their air forces with jet aircraft. With little to choose from, the Gloster Meteor was the prime candidate and hundreds were sold over many years. Further afield in the Middle East, Meteors were sold to Egypt, Israel and Syria. In far off South America, Argentina, Brazil ......
The most complete book about the Polish fighter PZL P.11 C for modellers . If you were to ask about the symbolic aircraft of the desperate defense of Polish sky during the tragic month of September 39, without any doubt the answer should be one the PZL P.11c. Although older machines (PZL P.7a and P.11a) fought next to it, the mentioned variant ......
This latest photo album in the ""Camera On"" series covers in photographic detail the wartime usage of the Henschel Hs 126 aircraft. The Henschel Hs 126 was a German two-seater reconnaissance and observation aircraft during World War II. The pilot was seated in a protected cockpit under the parasol wing and the gunner in an open rear cockpit. ......
This new book in the popular Polish Wings series describes and illustrates in unparalleled detail the supersonic MiG-21MF jet fighter in service with the Polish Air Force. Nearly 60 countries in four continents have flown the MiG-21 since 1959, and it still serves many nations six decades after its maiden flight. It made aviation records and ......
The MiG-3 fighter plane, like the history of the creation of the Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau, is relatively well known to anyone interested in the history of Soviet aviation. Many books and articles have been published about this machine, but information about the circumstances of the birth of the project and the conditions of its ......
The book presents a description of work on a model Ju 88 A-4. The author shows step by step each element of the modelling workshop. 80 colour photographs, 35 archival photographs, 24 renders, 4 colour profiles, masking foil.
This beautifully illustrated book is intended to assist the Spitfire modeller in understanding the physical shape and associated mechanical changes that applied to each of the many Marks of Spitfire produced - from the pre-Second World War, two-bladed, fixed-pitch propeller variants to the post-war contra-rotating six-bladed propeller versions ......
Aleksander Siewierski, originally from Georgia, was in the United States in 1917 and was there when the revolution in Russia broke out. As Alexander Seversky, he founded the Seversky Aero Corporation. Alexander Kartvelli (also a Georgian) became his main designer. Unfortunately, financial problems led to firing Seversky, and his company changed ......
Junkers Ju 188 - German bomber during World War II, successor of the Ju 88) was flown in January 1943. In February 1943, production lines launched three Ju 188E-0 planes powered by BMW 801ML engines. The first seven serial Ju 188E-1s received the BMW 801C-2 engines. Airplanes powered by Junkers Jumo in-line engines were to be marked A, B, C and ......
The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21st, 1957. Together with the twin "Foch", it was built on the basis of a project ......
This book is a compilation of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photographic details of the single variant of the NAA Mustang P-51B-1-NA, featuring scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals and also photographs of the details in b+w and colour.
Scale plans for aero modellers in 1/72 scale of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter aircraft, featuring twelve A3 size scale plans of the different versions.
40+ pages of technical information, 20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams, 5+ pages of camouflage and markings, 25+ pages of model builds and modelling information, 200+ photographs including wartime images. Color side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana. 3D isometric views of all variants by Wojciech Sankowski. ......
Airbrushing Scale Model Aircraft is a practical guide to the application and techniques of painting aircraft in any scale. It provides guidance on buying airbrushing equipment, setting it up and operating it safely, and offers detailed explanations of how airbrushes and compressors work, alongside their various components. The reader is taken ......
The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworths. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. ......