CONTACT - News from the Scale scene
BERNARD 74 - Dr. Mike Hawkins FRAes presents a two-part feature on a little-known product of the 1930s French aircraft industry
BERNARD 74 TYPE HISTORY - Designed at a time when two machine guns and a pilot without aid of ground control interception were still regarded a devastating weapon, the Barnard 74 was an early pointer to monoplane fighter design
BERNARD 74 SCALE DRAWING
1:50 general arrangement
TOMTIT REVISITED! - As a follow-up to our October '07 feature on Veron's Hawker Tomtit kit, David Ovenden relates his experience in building the kit he had stored for 30 years - then finally built it, with changes to suit modern equipment, including a temporary change to electric power
TRUE SCALE POTENTIAL! THE NEW RCV 130-CD - Cylinder head height is a major limiting factor in the design, or choice of a scale warbird model. The latest addition to the RCV range for four stroke engines can be the answer
CESSNA L-19 BIRD DOG - Simon Delaney reviews Ryan & Scott Davis' outstanding model of a Vietnam veteran
AERO ENGINES OF WWI - Mercedes & Austro-Daimler in 1/10th scale
THE QUIET ZONE - Peter Rake takes a rummage through the household junk for springs and scale engine parts, while Pat Lynch discusses laminated props and Vickers guns
GRAVITY DRIVEN FOAM WING CUTTER - Here's a piece of workshop kit that that can be .worked without recourse to two-man operation
JUG WITH A DIFFERENCE - Simon Delaney relates the interesting story of an obscure version of the P-47 Thunderbolt, uniquely and distinctively coloured by one of WW2's most famous USAAF Fighter Groups
HAVE CAMERA, - WILL TRAVEL! - A 2007 scale retrospective. Alex Whittaker shares some of his favourite scale shots of the year and takes a sideways glance at some emerging trends
TECHNO SCALE - Mike Evatt enters cyberspace for more Technoscale topics
SHELFILFE - Sit down for a good read

ON THE COVER - Ryan and Scott Davis's Cessna L-19 Bird Dog was built from Vailly Aviation plans scale up from 1/5th scale to 1/4 full size to produce this outstanding example of the scale modeller's art. 26 Ibs model is powered by a 3.2 cu.in. Walker petrol engine driving a 20 x 10 prop.