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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?
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 [...]
Elegant, beautifully curved shapes with a high recognition value, a brute performance that seems to stand in fascinating contrast to its graceful appearance and a long service history in which it has made itself indispensable in many areas [...]
This model was created as a farewell gift for a long-time acquaintance: he is the owner of the penultimate pure modelling shop in my home town. He will be retiring in the foreseeable future and his modelling shop will be closing its doors [...]
Although only seven examples of this extremely attractive and highly capable flying boat were built from the mid-1930s onwards, each of these flying boats, designed as “flying boat airliners”, was to have a short but all the more [...]
At first glance, the Junkers F.13 shown here appears to be completely unspectacular in the standard Junkers factory colours of black and silver: an appearance that in no way suggests the intricate political and economic background against [...]
Junkers machines with names such as ‘Herta’ or ‘Annelise’: as creative, imaginative and revolutionary as Hugo Junkers' work was, when it came to naming the first Junkers F.13 aeroplanes, he showed himself to be very much a family [...]
