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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?

The "Hangar-Games" Part II. The inside of GPM Hangar building

(link) The second film of GPM's hangar shows the inside. If you have half as much fun watching it as I had making it, it's good 🙂

The "Hangar Games" are open! GPM aircraft hangar videos, part I

(link) Recently I was able to complete a cardboard model of a hangar that I will use to stage model aircraft. As a pastime, I tried my hand at making films - although it is already clear that I am not a Steven Spielberg! 🙂 But it was [...]

A small shiny metallic beetleand the only one of its kind! American Gyro AG-4 Crusader

To the American Gyro AG-4 Crusader Two tail units terminated by disc-shaped rudders and aerodynamically cleanly blended into the fairings of two in-line engines towards the nose, with a teardrop-shaped nacelle for the crew in their centre: [...]

A second life- as a mayfly! N1K1-J Shiden, 341 Kokutai, 402 Hikotai, in US Hands

On the evaluation of captured Japanese aircraft: the work of the "Tactical Air Intelligence Units" TAIU, illustrated by the fate of the N1K1-J Shiden "341S-23". All parties to the conflict in World War II tried to find [...]

About tank carts, fire extinguishers ...and photographing models: two pieces of Japanese airfield equipment

A statement at the beginning: when purchasing these two kits, it is not so much the fascination for the respective original that is in the foreground, but rather their modelling possibilities. Presumably, most miniatures of this Japanese [...]

"George" is the name of my New Year's baby 2023: Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden /"George"

The fingers of one hand are enough to list the representatives of an extremely rare group of aircraft: those that have been converted from a seaplane to a land plane! If one narrows this group even further to those constructions that have [...]

Something completely different: a (model building) year in three minutes!

(link) With this three-minute video, I would like to present to you an idea of how I document my modelling activities of a year. Let's start 2023!

2022- A model building odyssey! or: an orbiter as a New Year's greeting: happy 2023 folks! (just imagine Richard Strauss waltz "An der schönen blauen Donau") Space Clipper Orion III

Do you know what I liked most about this project? The view of our blue planet, gorgeous, precious beautiful - and impressively captured by the photographers from zero gravity! Although the idea for the presentation of the finished model [...]

A real Squirt: Saunders Roe SR.A-1 takes off!

Like any aircraft design, the unusual Saunders Roe SR. A-1 is a compromise of various prerequisites and technical conditions on the one hand and ideas and conceptions on the other. Rarely, however, does this compromise result in such an [...]

A most unusual sight: Saunders Roe SR. A-1 flying boat fighter

My first reaction to the film footage of an SRA-1 in flight can be summarised as: "what an elegant and impressively agile aircraft this flying boat was! This impression surprised me myself, because when one sees this machine in still [...]