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Three things accompany and fascinate me throughout my life: history, the fine arts and the fascination of aeroplanes and ships. In the many aspects of model making, these fascinations come together quite happily.
In this respect, I take the freedom to build anything and in any scale that occupies me. In practice, these are mainly aircraft in 1:48 and 1:32 scale, but lately the 1:72 and even the 1:144 scale have developed a great fascination for me.
As a child of the 1970s, I am aware of the scale in which the offers, possibilities and demands in plastic modelling have developed: we are living in truly great times... aren't we?
Attention: I will reveal a few things about the Piaggio Pegna PC.7 right at the beginning, which, for the sake of suspense and to keep the reader interested, I should like to present at the end. Why am I doing this? It's easy to explain: [...]
The Fiat G.50 Freccia belongs to the generation of fighter aircraft that was to be the first to implement the innovations in aircraft development of the mid-1930s: the design as a monoplane in all-metal shell construction, a retractable [...]
“Metamorphosis” is the beautiful word to describe a far-reaching transformation or complex redesign. Why am I writing this here? On closer examination of the eventful history of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, I came up with this term: it [...]
For an aircraft of which just one single prototype was built and which was never to go into series production, the Tu-91 has a considerable number of nicknames: ‘Byk’ (bull) was the official name, but the name ‘Botshka’ also became [...]
I would like to send you a New Year's greeting of a rather unusual kind: If you take around four minutes of your time, I'll introduce you to my ‘Modelling Yearbook 2024’ in a short video clip! The ‘Yearbook 2024’ is a collection of [...]
What associations come to mind when you hear the keyword ‘USA around 1930’? Do images of the Great Depression, Prohibition and gangsters like Al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde come to mind? Or are they happier images full of an affinity [...]
When the crew of a B-17 “Flying Fortress” prepared for the final approach and the bombardier climbed forward to the glazed nose cockpit to bend over the bomb sight in concentration, the people on the ground below had to fear death and [...]
A short preface to Richard Trevithick's locomotive from 1804.
Cornwall in the 18th century is described in the sources as a highly inhospitable region and, because of its barren landscape and harsh population, it is known from London as [...]
How can you start a report on the Martin Mars? The first obvious thought is to start with its size,,the opening by its size, because after all, the original of this modelling project is the largest flying boat ever built in series! A [...]
Jimmy Doolittle, Aemilia Earhart, Jaqueline Cochran, Paul Mantz... - there is a place and a time where all these greats of the ‘golden era’ of US aviation can be found: the races of the Bendix Trophy of the 1930s not only brought [...]
