currently on UK news stands - part 2 of my Luftwaffe single-engine night fighters feature appears in the July issue of "Model Aircraft" magazine, part 1 having appeared in June's issue.. Let's face it, my model builds will never appear in a modelling magazine - unlike my friend Laurent at the STank models blog whose SS-21 Scarab is in the latest issue of Steelmasters. But now and again I put together some text to go with a bunch of my good friend Jean-Yves Lorant's photos, translate some of his pilot interviews and, in a first for one of my articles, persuade Anders Hjortsberg to come up with some of his superlative profile artwork.
.. Entitled "wilde Sau und Moskito Jagd" my 6,000 word article features the recollections of JG 302, NJGr.10 and NJG 11 pilots Fritz Gniffke and Walter Schermutzki over 12 pages in the two issues. I have also added some JG 300 photos to the mix, since JG 300 were the original wilde Sau Geschwader of course and especially as Gabler's "Red 8" is a markings option in the new Eduard Bf 109 G-6 Royal Class edition. Both issues are available from SAM Publications here
...currently on the bench - and, dare I say it, inspired by the magnificent photo reproduction in my own article - another Airfix new-tool Fw 190, planned in the markings of Klaus Bretschneider's A-7/Neptun with FuG 217 cowl and wing mounted aerials ....
Nice work, Falke. And the cover too!
ReplyDeleteBought my copy today ! Top banana! What puzzles me, however, is how I missed last month's. I don't understand it, I usually buy at least 2 aircraft magazines a month and I would have certainly picked up one with this in it. Never mind. The Me109 finishes are very interesting - now I've got an overall hellblau on my 'to do' list! Tell us more about the scrubbed down one - was it 'bare metal' completely, or just the wings?
ReplyDeleteThanks guys - John McIllmurray at AIMS has just bought out a decal sheet entitled 'Monotone MEs"(Messerschmitts) covering 'white 43' and other interesting single colour finishes..as for the 'metal' one, I'm not claiming to know; just that it was unlikely to have been bright shiny metal all over as so often depicted...
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being published! I hope you get paid; I'm still owed for five articles from SAM Publications, the earliest dating back to a SAMI article in September 2013.
ReplyDeletecheers Mike ! .. I had a few pieces published in the 'old' SAM ..and got paid pretty promptly. Airfix Model World paid me prior to publication back in September 2011! Who do you harass for payment from SAM ?
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