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.

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

The Best Fighter The Navy Never Had

The Boulton Paul SeaFiant Mk IV and VII

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.

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.