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Discover the characteristics of weathering pencils for modeling, from their manufacture to their different uses.

Some of the best artists show us how to use them, both dry and wet, with various colors and applications depending on the type of model being finished.

This book is lavishly illustrated with step-by-step photos and descriptive text that explains, in-depth, the secrets and techniques of using pencils.

Within these pages you will find interesting and very useful information to apply to your projects in any scale.

Specification

• English / Spanish, 96 pages. Soft cover.

Volume 3 of the Modelling Full Ahead series is devoted to the famous German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz. This new publication brings you extraordinary detailed step by step articles on building the 1/350 scale Tirpitz kit from Revell, 1/350 scale Bismarck kit from the same manufacturer, and 1/400 scale Bismarck from Heller. A fantastic guide for the naval modeler on these iconic models which will allow you to discover new tricks indispensable for building the miniature warships.

Get on board of this incredible trip through history and modeling by the hand of some of the best naval modelers of the world.

English / Spanish. 88 Pages. Soft Cover.

Modelling Full Ahead is a new series of books for naval modelers. The aim is to concentrate on a specific ship class in depth. From pictures showing all the angles of the ship, to the model kits you can use and, of course, a detailed step by step on how to transform your model ship in an outstanding artwork. For this first issue Fran Romero, well known naval modelling master, with the collaboration of the italian modeler Luciano Rizzato, will guide us through the difficult, but exciting, way of modelling a Knox/Baleares Class frigate. Follow Fran and Luciano in their journey around the Knox/Baleares Class, from standard kits to 4 outstanding models, with different levels of weathering, and learn in an easy and practical way their master modelling techniques. A book from modelers for modelers, a ‘must’ have to improve your naval modelling skills.

English / Spanish. 80 Pages. Soft Cover.

English. 216 pages. Semi-hard cover.

The second volume of the Masters collection has as its protagonist a different modeler, who escapes the normal canons of modeling.

His style is unique and recognizable.

“I eventually found out that I could empty my mind and express a lot of feelings in my dioramas and I started to literally pour my life into these”. (Jean Bernard André)

English. 116 pages. Semi-hard cover.

This new collection that begins with this volume depicts a new challenge for all of us and means a new step forward in order to make this hobby more popular and accessible.
Some modelers have dared to try new techniques and have managed to influence others with their efforts, gaining admiration evermore thanks to the various publications, not to mention exposure over the last few years in new types of communication and social media.

I have chosen this book “With or Without” because it is a synthesis of modeling both for pleasure and for work.

Differentiation and the desire to go further, makes it possible that, instead of being stuck at one point, we continue to evolve.

The title itself seemed original to us, like that U2 song that we all know, and it identifies perfectly the content of the modeling part of the book”. (Rick Lawler).

Building The Harrier. Model Aircraft Extra #5

Building the Harrier

The iconic Hawker Siddeley Harrier was the first of the so-called Harrier ‘Jump Jet’ series. It was developed in the 1960s as the first operational close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) capabilities, and the only truly successful V/STOL design of the many that arose in that era, and at its heart was the innovative Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine with its thrust vectoring nozzles.

The Harrier was developed directly from the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel prototype aircraft, following the cancellation of a more advanced supersonic Hawker Siddeley P.1154. Originally said to be ‘unable to carry more than a matchbox over a football field’ the Harrier matured into one of the most potent warplanes of its generation. The RAF ordered the Harrier GR.1 and GR.3 variants in the late 1960s, as well as T.4 trainers versions, and it was also exported to the United States as the AV-8A and TAV-8A, for use by the US Marine Corps as well as the Spanish Navy in the 1970s.

Spain sold seven single-seat and two twin-seat Harriers to Thailand in 1998. The Sea Harrier FRS.1, which shot to fame during the Falklands War, was designed to fill the strike, reconnaissance and fighter roles for the Royal Navy, and the innovative use of a ‘ski jump’ allowed the aircraft to take-off from a short flight deck with a heavier loadout than otherwise possible.

After the Falklands War, the Sea Harrier was upgraded to the F/A2 standard and featured the Blue Vixen radar and carried the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile. The Indian Navy was the only other user of the Sea Harrier aboard their aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and INS Viraat. The BAe/McDonnell Douglas Harrier II was a second-generation of V/STOL aircraft designed for use by the US Marne Corps, RAF and the Royal Navy and continues in service with the USMC as the AV-8B and TA-V8B trainer and is also in service with the Spanish and Italian Navies.

For the RAF, initial deliveries of the Harrier II were designated as Harrier GR.5 and subsequent upgraded airframes were redesignated accordingly as GR.7 and GR.9. The RAF Harriers saw action over Bosnia and Afghanistan before being retired in 2011. Most of the original US Marine Corps AV-8B ‘day attack’ aircraft were upgraded to either the FLIR equipped ‘Night Attack Harrier’ or the more capable radar equipped ‘Harrier II Plus’ and have participated in support of Operation ‘Southern Watch’, Operation ‘Allied Force’. USMC AV-8Bs also took part in Operation ‘Enduring Freedom’ in Afghanistan from 2001, and the aircraft also participated in the Iraq War in 2003, acting primarily in support of USMC ground units, and in 2011, they flew in support of Operation ‘Odyssey Dawn’, enforcing the UN no-fly zone over Libya. This fourth book in the MA Extra Series contains fourteen model builds, colour profiles and scale plans, and will be a must for the Harrier aficionado!

This is the February/March 2020 issue 111 of ModelArt Australia magazine. This issue contains the usual feature stories and informative model kits, books, and accessories reports and reviews, club news, reports on past and upcoming model events, and lots of other useful hobby information.

THIS volume covers the Fokker A.I;A.II;and E.I versions in unprecedented detail. Over 100 rare archive photos including many close-ups of engines, cockpits and armament;plus detailed, full colour, annotated 1:48 scale drawings of all three types,with three spreads devoted to the main E.I versions.In addition there are scale plans for the 80-hp Oberursel U.O engine,production tables ,plus nine brand new colour profiles by Ronny Bar based on the latest researches.Josef Scott has spent years researching the Fokker  Eindeckers and has written and illustrated two superb monographs that have finally stripped away many of the myths that have  long- shrouded these early German fighter aircraft.