TANDEM!

Winging It

The Cold War Nearly Turns Hot The Northrop RB-49 and the RAF

EDITORIAL

So we got the December issue and the Tornado book out

Telford Round-up

Well we’ll keep this brief, as if you were there you’ve

NEW KITS ON THE BLOCK

SAM received a number of kits and products for review at Scale ModelWorld, all of which were passed on for review at the show. Space precludes including all the preview material returned from the Review Team in this issue but here’s an initial selection.

New Tool Focke Wulf Fw 190a -4

Eduard’s latest venture into the Fw 190 series has

Scaling Down Telford

More New 1/144 Releases

MINIWINGS Muscular Tutor

Miniwings continue to expand their injection moulded

North American B-45C Tornado

The North American B-45C Tornado was the first four

MALTA ON A PEDESTAL

Before dawn on 15th August all the surviving merchant

Modelling the Bombers

In part one of this series I said it was my aim to

BELL’S FIRST GREAT SNAKE

The Bell XP-39 design arose from a response to a challenging

Walkaround

There are two versions of how the Bearcat was conceived.

Dick Ward – A Personal Memoir

It’s nearly fifty years since I met Dick Ward. Joining

Aircraft in Profile

The story of military aviation is filled with underachievers

Threat Reduction

Modellers wishing to tackle the F-105 should find themselves

Operation Jiu-Jitsu

RAF Radar Reconnaissance Overlights of the Soviet Union with the RB-45C Tornado 1952 – 1954

Duck Style

Miles M.57 Aerovan

Take Me All The Way

That drop tanks were used by the USAAF during the second

IPMS (UK) Column

So, there you go, the World’s Greatest Model Show gone

MARKETPLACE

Being fairly familiar with the range himself, this

Spanish 109

Many textbooks of World War II aircraft comment that

Southwell Canters On

Expo 2017 IPMS Newark & Lincoln at Southwell Racecourse

Book Reviews

A look at some of the latest publications received for review

First Look

Announced at the Model & Hobby Show in Tokyo in

Next issue

Planned for the Scale Aircraft Modelling Volume 39 Issue 12: February 2018

SUB-CUTANEOUS

For some considerable time, there has been some question

First Among Furies

The Hawker Sea Fury was the very last in the line of

Walkaround

Sea Fury VR930 was delivered to the Royal Navy at RNAS

DISPELLING DECAL DILLEMMAS

Decisive & Decaling

SHOWCASE

I decided to build an old Monogram kit out of the box

Dornier Do 17Z-10 Kauss II

This is a revised tooling of ICM’s previous Do 17Z

Hawk MK.200/208/209

As seems to be standard with HobbyBoss 1/48 models

Boeing 737-800

The 737-800 variant is amongst the 737 Next Generation