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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?
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 [...]
Whichever of the numerous stories associated with Hugo Junkers‘ amazing life and work you take in, you can be sure of one impression: whether as an Aachen professor of thermodynamics, entrepreneur, innovator in aircraft and aircraft [...]
‘I was wondering whether anyone would actually buy it’ was the comment I got from my trusted modelling dealer about my spontaneous decision to buy. He went on to explain that adding Miniart's ‘Field Workshop’ to the assortment [...]
Who would have expected to be able to put a target drone of the US armed forces from the 1940s on the workbench as the subject of a brand-new and really first-class kit in the popular 1:48 scale? Well, certainly not me! This can also be [...]
Sometimes things don't go as planned: I finally managed to get hold of a second kit of this impressive ground effect vehicle to start a double project on the subject - and then I realised that essential components were missing from one of [...]
The mysterious aircraft presented here is surprisingly difficult to categorise. Although it flies at a speed of several hundred kilometres per hour and is reminiscent of a classic aeroplane in many parts, it also moves with a spray or dust [...]
