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SCRATCHBUILDING THE
HEAVY BOMBER IN 1:48
CONTENTS
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Short Stirling Part One
Megas Tsonos begins his multipart 1:48 scratchbuilt project to build the
British heavy bomber.
12
F-16C Block 50
Pascal Klasen reworks the 1:48 Tamiya kit.
20
Ki-61 Hien
Michel Gruson describes his bare metal Hien using Hasegawa’s 1:32 kit.
28
Henschel Hs 123A
The Montex 1:32 resin kit modelled by Zdenek Sebesta.
38
Hurricane Mk.1 Early
Charles Whall builds the Pacific Coast Models 1:32 kit
48
Air Born
New releases.
58
Mig-21
François-Regis Binder superdetails the 1:72 Zvezda kit.
Meng AIR Modeller is published Bimonthly by
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SHORT STIRLING
he Short Stirling is one of the esoteric subjects of RAF
Bomber Command aircraft. One needs to go ‘back in time’
in order to fully understand the true impact this aeroplane
made to the RAF, to British industry and to the British public in
T
wanted to build a model of it in 1:48 you will have to rely on the
Sanger vacform kit, and its accuracy both in shape and
dimensions leaves much to be desired. The finished product will,
at best, look ‘like a Stirling’, suitable only for filling the gap in some
projected RAF bombers collection. The approach of a scratchbuilt
model of a Stirling is a more complicated one, but can lead to a
better result as one is free to do away with the restraints a
vacform kit usually imposes. You only have to follow the plans, but
which plans?
general, as a ‘mighty, war-winning machine’, when it went into
service. The fact that due to Air Ministry restrictive specifications, it
failed in its primary role of the long range bomber, and its ungainly
looks, have contributed to the Short Stirling unfortunately
becoming, over the years, a neglected subject. It its also a
complicated subject and one that it is not easy to research. If you
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MEGAS TSONOS
SCRATCHBUILDS THE HEAVY BOMBER IN 1:48
part one
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