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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
The In Tray - New to us; new to you? New items received by SAM - extended onto page 528!
Aircraft in Detail - RNZAF in the Pacific in World War Two - Andy Scott describes the operations and the six main aircraft types used by the RNZAF in the Pacific Theatre of Operations during 1942 to 1946, whilst David Howley illustrates their various camouflage schemes and markings.
Readers Write - Your chance to respond to previous articles in SAM or simply air your views about aviation/modelling related topics.
Iberian Interlude - 2 - Frank Campey models three Spanish Civil War protagonists, whilst Peter Green provides 1:72 scale plans of the CR 32 plus some SCW colour schemes.
IPMS (UK) National Championships - photo report - A chance to look at some of the superb Class and Trophy winners that were on display at Telford
SAM plans - In readiness forthe forthcoming Mirage quarter scale injection-moulded kit, 1:48 scale drawings of the PZL P-23 'Karas' from the pen of Peter Green
Dynavector's Hornet - Jim Howard goes to town on Dynavector's vacform kit and builds it as an initial production F Mk1
JG 2's French home - Michael Payne begins his JG 2 trilogy with a look at the unit's World War Two base using exclusive photographs and maps.
3 wings are better than 2 - A treat for World War One fans - Ed Smith builds Eduard's 1:48 Sopwith Triplane.
Airline Liveries - Karl-Heinz Moraweitz illustrates some livery schemes worn by the Lockheed Electra
Market Place - Kits, accessories, books and decals reviewed by enthusiast modellers
Tailpiece - Mike McEvoy looks back to the future - but further than he expected
Tamiya Swordfish preview - Photographs of the first production test shots 'on the sprue'
On the front cover: 'Kiwi Corsair' by Malcolm Kinnear.
Article Snippets
So many kits, so little time!
As I write this, I’m still recovering from the IPMS (UK) Nationals weekend - and what a weekend it was! It really is the biggest and, (at the risk of-sounding overly-nationalistic), the best show of its kind in the world. A veritable modellers’ paradise; but at what price on the old wallet? Like the majority of modellers who went to the show, I allowed myself the luxury of buying some ‘must have’ kits I had listed down for purchase, and when I got back home, after poring lovingly over my latest acquisitions, I carefully stored them away to be built later - with the hundreds of other unmade kits that currently form my loft insulation!
If I’m honest, in the three score years and ten that I can hopefully expect to live, I’ll NEVER make all the kits I’ve got stored away. Even if I stopped buying new kits NOW and was given three life-spans to go at, I’d still be hard-pressed to make them all! But, as our corporate-image Polo shirts the SAM team were wearing at the Nationals announced, even if there are ‘So many kits, so little time’, like all dyed-in-the-wool, true-blue, aviation-enthusiast modellers, I’ll continue to buy new kits - well at least they’re helping to keep the heating bills down in winter!
Major Grovel - Well the gremlins certainly got into the last issue! Quite apart from the odd spelling/gram-mar/spacing ‘typo’, (which no matter how often we proof-read the text before committing it to plate-making, seem to evade notice until the issue’s been printed, then they mockingly jump out at you), we managed to miss a couple of other items. In my editorial I managed to transpose two of the numbers in the date of the Israeli Air Force Story Part 3 from 1973 to 1937, ten years before the state of Israel existed; and in Paul Lawson’s ‘Tornado Twins’ article, the text columns on pages 494 and 495 were transposed! My sincere apologies for any irritation and confusion these errors may have caused - and as my annua! school reports invariably commented, “tries hard but must do better”!!
As I write this, I’m still recovering from the IPMS (UK) Nationals weekend - and what a weekend it was! It really is the biggest and, (at the risk of-sounding overly-nationalistic), the best show of its kind in the world. A veritable modellers’ paradise; but at what price on the old wallet? Like the majority of modellers who went to the show, I allowed myself the luxury of buying some ‘must have’ kits I had listed down for purchase, and when I got back home, after poring lovingly over my latest acquisitions, I carefully stored them away to be built later - with the hundreds of other unmade kits that currently form my loft insulation!
If I’m honest, in the three score years and ten that I can hopefully expect to live, I’ll NEVER make all the kits I’ve got stored away. Even if I stopped buying new kits NOW and was given three life-spans to go at, I’d still be hard-pressed to make them all! But, as our corporate-image Polo shirts the SAM team were wearing at the Nationals announced, even if there are ‘So many kits, so little time’, like all dyed-in-the-wool, true-blue, aviation-enthusiast modellers, I’ll continue to buy new kits - well at least they’re helping to keep the heating bills down in winter!
Major Grovel - Well the gremlins certainly got into the last issue! Quite apart from the odd spelling/gram-mar/spacing ‘typo’, (which no matter how often we proof-read the text before committing it to plate-making, seem to evade notice until the issue’s been printed, then they mockingly jump out at you), we managed to miss a couple of other items. In my editorial I managed to transpose two of the numbers in the date of the Israeli Air Force Story Part 3 from 1973 to 1937, ten years before the state of Israel existed; and in Paul Lawson’s ‘Tornado Twins’ article, the text columns on pages 494 and 495 were transposed! My sincere apologies for any irritation and confusion these errors may have caused - and as my annua! school reports invariably commented, “tries hard but must do better”!!
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