Paint, paint, paint and paint!
Let there be paint! Paint is something very important when modelling and there are almost as many manufacturers, and schools, of paint as there are models today. Ok, not as many but when listing all manufacturers of model paint you’ll be amazed! I’m not going to make colour charts for all of these, but I will make pages for the most common ones, and if possible try to make a conversion chart between the various makes where...
Italeri SR-71 Blackbird 1/72
SR-71 Blackbird Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird Italeri – No.145 – 1/72 One of the most exciting air planes ever built is the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird and very few come even close to the achievements that were made with this masterpiece of engineering – not just whilst flying it but designing and building it! This was done before we had computers and those responsible for the design truly knew what they were...
Squadron Haunebu II 1/72
Haunebu II Haunebu II Do-Stra (Dornier STRAtospharen Flugzeug/Stratospheric Aircraft) Squadron – Nr. SQM0001 – 1/72 Haunebu II – the secret Nazi project that was going to be the means to be able to operate the Third Reich from Neuschwabenland, and later evacuate the Thule and Vril cults to South America via Antarctica, i.e. Neuschwabenland. Here are some Haunebu facts according to some “sources”: The Haunebu I first...
MiniArt European Street 1/35
European Street Mini Art – Nr. 36011 – 1/35 MiniArt has some beautiful diorama buildings that are notoriously famous for being hard to assemble, or are they? Ever since I saw a couple of the “European” diorama buildings from MiniArt I really wanted to build one, as a base for a small scenery during the WWII conflict in Europe, but wherever I searched all I found were people telling how hard it was to assemble...
(not) On the bench #3
How to maintain a hobby when the post office is losing your models – and then refuse to refund the costs? As I wrote a couple of days ago I’ve been having major problems with the company that took over the Swedish post office a couple of years ago – PostNord. I’m not alone in having these problems and they are a recurring headline in the evening news, and this not for their excellence but for their constant...
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