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avid modeller with around 30 years of modelling experience.
I run VVS Modelling weblog and Facebook page and Soviet / Russian Scale Modelling Facebook group.

I mostly build in 1:72 and 1:144.

Main interests are post war soviet/russian aviation, naval aviation, IRIAF, weird looking aircraft, modern naval forces...

Other hobbies include photography, traveling, mountain biking, music journalism (rockline.si) and a bunch of other stuff

25th Slovenian Nationals - Aircraft

Today I've visited Slovenian Nationals competition - a rather small event internationally but this year packed to the halls capacity with excellent models. Here's a selection of some aircraft models on display - I'll be adding other [...]

MiG Anniversary group build

8th of December, 2019, will mark 80th anniversary of the establishment of Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. After the WW2 designs of MiG-1 and MiG-3, with the advent of jet age, the name [...]

Dassault Mirage 4000

Mirage 4000 first flew in March 1979, just a year after it’s smaller brother Mirage 2000. And while the latter became a backbone of French Air Force fighter force and a highly successful export product, the 4000 failed to reach any sales [...]

1st Alfons Veljačić Cup

Last weekend I’ve visited the first edition of “Alfons Veljačić Cup”. The exhibition and competition was happening in the City museum of Crikvenica – a small coastal town on Croatian Adriatic shore. Alfons Veljačić was born in [...]

MiG-21MF ‘Fishbed-J’; Eduard 1:72

The iconic MiG-21 ‘Fishbed’ doesn’t need special introduction. This supersonic jet fighter/interceptor first flew more than 60 years ago, has served in over 60 countries all over the globe and during its career became such a synonym [...]

DDG-67 USS Cole

Hello fellow iModelers! Looking at David's masterpiece model of a CV-6 Enterprise, and since there's not much ship models posted, I've decided to showcase my only (apart from several submarines) ship model so far. Arleigh Burke class [...]

Yak-130 'Mitten'; Zvezda 1:72

Yak-130 is an advanced subsonic jet trainer, built in Russia to replace the outdated Czech built L-39 Albatroses. The airframe enables the student pilots easy transition to 4+, 4++ and 5th generation fighters. The development began in 1990 [...]

A year in review - 2017

Hi everyone! As I build mostly in 1:72 and sometimes OOB, I've had quite a good output in the previous years, not falling below 1 model per month. Well, 2017 proved to be slightly different. I've started my approach procedural air traffic [...]

Azerbaijani Su-17M3 'Fitter-H'

Hi everyone! Here's my latest finished project, the Modelsvit 1:72 Su-17M3 built in the interesting splinter camo of Azerbaijani Air Force. ukhoi Su-17 series developed from the fixed wing Su-7 – the latter having poor low speed [...]

MiG-21MF 'Fishbed-J'

I don’t do a lot of commission builds so this is more of an exception. A flight-simming friend did me a lot of favors in the last few months for which I am very grateful. And he’s a big MiG-21 fan so one thing led to another and I [...]