Workbench Martin B-51 Marauder ||

Son of the Middle River Stump Jumper

A Swift Kick

Tackling a Vintage Vacform

A COLOUR COMMUNICATION CONUNDRUM

COLOUR CONUNDRUM

NEARLY OUT FOR A GOLDEN DUCK

Jon Bryon plays a captain's innings with his testing build of a Classic J2F-6

GAME OF DRONES

Ugur Kenel drones on, in the best possible way, about ICM's 1/48 DB-26 4256

KIWI HARVARD

Commonwealth Trainer

PZL P.II – FIRST TO FIGHT

All photos Henryk Clapa collection

SEAC MARKINGS

British Aircraft Markings in South East Asia 1941 - 1945

Many Happy Returns

C.A.C. CA-19 Boomerang

Variations on a Theme... by Junkers

Neil Robinson models a quartet of 1/48 scale Ju 88s, tweaked and modified to ring a few changes...

PERSIAN TOMCAT

Fighters in the First Gulf War

Back to Basics

An Introduction to Paint

Cookie Monster

New Tool Mosquito

Aviation Americana

Goodyear XF2G-1 Corsair Conversion

Cockpits and Kits at Boscombe Down

Let’s all admit it, we’d all had to wait far too long to visit a model show, so when the opportunity arose to head across to the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) Model Show on Sunday 22nd August, I was in the car and on the road before it was dawn.

FLANKER-D

Russian Navy Carrier-Borne Fighter

FIREDOG BEAUS

Neil Robinson builds a pair of 1/48 Beaufighters, representing the end of the type’s operational service life... ... and uses the opportunity to compare the Tamiya and Revell kits.

‘As essential to the Red Army as Air and Bread'

As a Russian I always await a new model from Zvezda with anticipation. This is because, as a rule, they kit our own indigenous aircraft, which other companies ‘generate’ very rarely.

The Best Fighter The Navy Never Had

The Boulton Paul SeaFiant Mk IV and VII

Fairey Gannet AS_Mk 1 & Mk 4 and trainer versions

World War 2 had proven to Great Britain the importance of keeping her sea lanes safe and open.

Workbench

Club 1830 and the Vultee P-66 Vanguard

VICTORY 357

Soviet Demonstrator ‘What If?’

Tornadoes Over Italy

Modelling Italian Panavia Tornadoes using Hasegawa 1/72 scale kits Part 2: The IDS Tornado

BOMBS OVER BREST

53 Sqn Blenheim at St Eval

Tempest Fugit

‘Hi-Tech Kit’ Tempest Mk II ‘The Last RAF Radial Engine Fighter’

High Flying Hickory

Harvey Low builds a 1/72 trainer kit with attitude.

Sea-going Sunday PUNCHER

René van der Hart creates beauty from HobbyBoss’s 1/48 ‘Double Ugly’

A Bolt from the Blue

Building Meng Model’s 1/24 Fokker Dr.1

REVELL

Boeing 747-8F Cargolux LX-VCF ‘Facemask’

IPMS UK

The difficulty with writing a monthly magazine column at the moment is that so much is happening that what I wrote last month may have no relevance this month, especially as there is always a time lag between me submitting the column and it actually appearing in print.