Modell Fan 1988-11

Als im vorigen Sommer die Gerüchte auftauchten, daß bei Matchbox eine He 70 im Werden sei, horchten zumindest hierzulande die Modellbauer auf. Dieser Vogel mit der genialen Handschrift Siegfried Günthers war nicht nur das erste aerodynamisch wirklich konsequent durchgebildete Flugzeug auf der Welt, sondern hatte sich in besonderem Maße zu einer Art Wappenvogel der deutschen Luftfahrt entwickelt. In seiner harmonischen, ästhetischen Grazie stand er zu seiner Zeit einzig da; auch danach blieb er ziemlich alleine, allenfalls erreicht von seinem jüngeren, im Schatten gebliebenen Bruder He 119 und Reg Mitchell's Spitfire. Die Geschichte der He 70ist in kurzen Worten auf dem Beipackzettel von Matchbox umrissen und gibt für den angestrebten Kundenkreis das Wesentliche her. Interessenten können, soweit nicht schon bekannt, Vertiefendes in der Luftfahrt-Fachliteratur nachlesen. Zurück zur He 70: Die Ausmaße des Modells wurden nach Zusammenbau überprüft und nach den Originalabmessungen hochgerechnet.

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Model Military International 2009-05

Many modellers who grew up during the 1970s and 1980s will remember the Chieftain as the British Army's Main Battle Tank, with these 55 ton giants forming part of NATO's first line of defence at the height of the Cold War. The Chieftain was conceived in the early 1950s as a replacement for the Centurion and Conqueror tanks and saw over two decades service before being replaced by Challenger 1 in the 1980s. The Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment or FVRDE, with Leyland Motors as main design contractors, undertook design work for the Chieftain. The Chieftain had many innovative features such as a reclining position for the driver when 'closed down' so that the glacis plate could be angled to give better ballistic protection. Also, the main armament, a rifled 120mm gun, had ammunition with separate bagged charges and was installed in the turret without an external mantlet. The tank was accepted into British Army service in May 1963, and the Chieftain entered service in 1966 with production being shared between Vickers-Armstrong and Royal Ordinance.

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FineScale Modeler 2004-09

Nowadays we have extreme sports, extreme makeovers, and even extreme (computer) programming, but Massimo Barbieri may have invented a new "extreme" — extreme detailing. This master craftsman from Carpi, Italy, specializes in large-scale models packed with mind-bogglingly exact detail. If you've seen the articles featuring his work in previous issues of FineScale Modeler ( January 2002) and Great Scale Modeling (1999 and 2002), you already know what to expect from his latest scratchbuilt wonder. Massimo's rendering of American World War II fighter ace Don Gentiles P-51B is a masterpiece of detail, functional and static, inside and out. Even the best kits don t offer the kind of detail Massimo craves, so he scratchbuilds all his models from styrene and metal right down to the interior structure of the airframe. Since he works in an unusual scale, 1/20, he cant rely on commercial kits even for basic fuselage and wing structures. Massimo builds up these sections just like the full-scale aircraft, starting with the interior bulkheads.

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