Sky Model No.22

Francis Gabreski è uno dei pochi piloti da caccia che sono riusciti a diventare assi di due diversi conflitti. Durante il suo breve ciclo operativo contro la Luftwaffe ottenne 28 vittorie, diventando il miglior pilota americano del teatro europeo. All'inizio degli anni 50 Gabreski ottenne altre 6,5 vittorie in Corea, cosa che gli valse due volte il titolo di Asso. Estate 1940 - in Europa c'era la guerra, la Francia era sconfitta, la Polonia spartita tra Germania e Unione Sovietica. Francis Stanley Gabreski, cresciuto a Oil City in Pennsylvania e figlio di emigrati polacchi, si arruolò nell'US Army Air Corps. Dopo due anni di studi a Notre Dame il giovane Gabreski decise di diventare aviatore. Durante le prime fasi dell'istruzione di volo sugli Stearman PT-17 e Fairchild PT-19 il cadetto Gabreski non diede buona prova di se, piuttosto il contrario - grazie aita sostituzione di un istruttore di volo, nel settembre del 1940, il futuro asso evitò di essere allontanato dalla scuola. Finì comunque l'istruzione nel marzo del 1941 e fu inviato col grado di 2nd Lieutenant (sottotenente) al 45th Fighter Squadron del 15th Fighter Group basato ad Oahu, nelle Hawaii. Il suo reparto era di stanza sul Wheeler Air Field, dove potè impratichirsi sui caccia Curtiss P-36 e sui P-40B.

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Scale Aircraft Modelling 05 2006

After the April 1974 revolution, Portugal's involvement in the wars in its African colonies finally came to an end. At the same time, the UN arms embargo was lifted and the personnel of the Forca Aerea Portuguesa (FAP) began to be demobilised for their return to the Portuguese mainland. In the wake of the revolution, several aircraft types were either retired or donated to the new governments of the ex-colonies of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, and a very few were abandoned on their airfields in Africa. With the MP's return to operations from mainland Portugal, the air force was subject to much-needed reorganisation. From 1975, the FAP's impressive strength of 868 aircraft and some 22,000 personnel began to be reduced. A slow programme of fleet renewal was also taking place, and as a result the FAP acquired 24 CASA C-212 Aviocars in October 1974. The Aviocar replaced several types, including the obsolete Ju 52/3m, the few remaining C-47s, and the Noratlas, which was finally retired in 1977. Many of the FAP's C-47s never returned from Africa, as the Portuguese government either donated or sold them to the air forces of the ex-colonies. As early as 1973 the PAP had begun to look for a replacement for the war-weary Do 27, but the UN arms embargo made it impossible to find an available and suitable successor. Only in December 1974, with the embargo lifted, were the first three examples of the Reims-Cessna FTB-337G Milirole delivered, these being the first batch from a total order of 32.

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Verlinden Modeling Magazine Vol.2 No.4

Aus vielen Leserzuschriften wissen wir, daß manche Modellbauer Schwierigkeiten mit dem Bau und der Bemalung des FN 7,62mm MG's haben, das von den israelischen Streitkräften viel verwendet wird und eben auch bei VERLINDEN PRODUCTIONS als Neuheit erschienen ist. Der VP Satz Nr. 571 enthält zwei Typen der üblichen MG-Lafettierungen für das MAG Maschinengewehr (aus Gießharz und fotogeätzt). Die hier beschriebenen Lafettierungen können aus den VP Teilen umgebaut werden, sie wurden für den M113 MTW (oben) und die M60, Merkava und Centurion Kampfpanzer entwickelt. (Unten). Die verwendete VERLINDEN 120mm Großfigur, ein SS-Infanterist des 2.Wk. (Nr. 451) wurde sehr aufwendig in eine Figur mit einer entspanten und gelassenen Körperhaltung umgebaut. Mit einem beträchtlichen Anteil von VERLINDEN Modelliermasse wurde die Uniform der Figur dargestellt. Als sehr hilfreiche Bemalungs-vorlage erwies sich der Artikel über die Bemalung der deutschen Uniformen im VP Magazin Vol. 1 N°l (Nicht als deutsche Ausgabe erschienen; Anm. d. Übers.) Alle bei dem Nebelwerfer sichtbaren Ausrüstungsteile gehören übrigens als Zubehör zu der verwendeten Figur.

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Verlinden Modeling Magazine Vol.4 No.1

Experienced modelers will tell you the key to good modeling is imagination. Oh. that's easy.... nothing to it..., piece of cake ! But what if you're not that kind of person who can come up with new ideas like the magician who pulls the white rabbit out of his tophat time and time again. Reading books and talking to fellow modelers might help. Picking useful ideas from other dioramas and combining them on your display is another possibility. One thing Martin SCHUH does not have to worry about is new ideas. This prolific German modeler, who has a keen eye for detail, always seems to amaze the public with original ideas. One of his latest diorama's, combining some unusual vehicles and a factory ruin, is set in the "Barbarossa" era. Funny, but few modelers seem to be attracted by WWII Soviet armor and soldiers, although they had a major part in the downfall of the "Third Reich". This diorama proves it's not merely the type of vehicles that matters, but the kind of scene you create with them. Described on these pages is a story of an SS-Panzer unit running into a lost and lonely Russian KVIB tank. capturing the occupants, in the early days of "Operation Barbarossa . Themselves traveling in a Demag type. 1 Ton halftrack equipped with a 5cm Pak gun. took a short cut through the compounds of this brick-yard where they found the tank in hiding.

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