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.