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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?
Coincidences, especially chance encounters, are a popular literary topos to start great stories. The already legendary story of the Fw 200 Condor can also boast such an incident: in March 1936, Dr Kurt Tank, who had recently become head of [...]
Do you know this too? Sometimes kits contain whole jewels of modelling, such as a wonderfully reproduced radio equipment, a detailed navigator's workstation or a promisingly detailed engine, which then in the further building process are [...]
DH.91 Albatross/ "Fingal
The type designation "Albatross" seems well chosen for the de Havilland DH.91. The wide-span wing tips, which thin out to form an elegant point, are analogous to the wings of the mighty sea bird [...]
About the Tornado F.3 ADV
The F.3 ADV is probably the most easily recognisable of the numerous versions derived from the Panavia Tornado swing-wing fighter-bomber: the extended nose cone and the underside of the fuselage adapted to carry [...]
"Operation Granby" represented the British contribution to the military response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, carried out by an international alliance and under the title of UN Resolution 678. Better known are [...]
My search for photogenic backgrounds for photographing aircraft models led me to the cardboard models of the Polish manufacturer GPM. As a newcomer in the field of cardboard model building, I was surprised at how complex and at the same [...]
Isn't it amazing how many contemporaries can still remember Mathias Rust's flight to Moscow? 36 years have passed since that 28 May 1987, and yet the act of the then very young pilot remains present to the public. It is interesting to [...]
Is it an exaggeration to say that hardly any aircraft silhouette is better known than that of the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis"? This is rivalled only by the fame of its pilot, Charles Lindbergh. His dazzling and peculiarly [...]
Many articles on aircraft models begin with the statement that the original of the presented model is particularly unique. As appropriate as this may be, the Bugatti 100P shown here opens up yet another category of uniqueness all its [...]
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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 🙂
