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Gone in a Flash - A Quickbuild of Kinetic Gold’s 1/48 F/A-18D
Out of Africa - Ben Smith looks at the Eduard 1/48 BF109F-4
Black Mike - Jezz Coleman takes a look at the recent 1/72 Airfix Phantom FG.1
Sparrowhawk - Huw Morgan builds the 1/72 Italeri Savoia Marchetti S.79
French Navy Flyer - Fabian Flemming builds the 1/48 Kinetic Super Etendard Modernise
Me Casa! - Vitor Costa guides you through painting and weathering the 1/72 Special Hobby CASA 212-100 with Portuguese Tail Art
German Grasshopper - Iwan Hughes builds the 1/35 MiniArt Focke-Wulf FW C.30A Heuschrecke
Winter Yak - Huw Morgan builds the 1/48 Zvezda Yak-IB
Zero by Numbers - Angel Exposito builds the FineMolds 1/72 Mitsubishi A6M1 Prototype
Legacy Bug Bandit - Snorre Sandviken builds the 1/48 HobbyBoss F/A-18A in the markings of VFC-12
Boom and Bite - Iwan Hughes builds the 1/48 Trumpeter De Havilland Vampire FB Mk.5
Latest News - ALL the latest news from around the world
First Looks - A preview of upcoming and new releases
Kit Reviews - The SAMI review team build and assess a variety of models
Accessories - An assortment of new accessories from various companies
Decals - The latest decal releases from around the world
Book Reviews - SAMI’s monthly look at new books
IPMS(UK) - Presented by Chris Ayre on behalf of The International Plastic Modellers’ Society (UK)
Back Page - Diary of upcoming shows and find out what's coming next month?
issue for your enjoyment! First of all, you will see from the cover we are now ‘Under New Ownership' as SAMI, and our sister publication Scale Military Modeller, as well as all of the associated Datafile and Scaled Down book series are now under the banner of 'MA Publications’, who also produce Model Aircraft Magazine and the excellent Model Aircraft Extra modelling books. MA Publications may be a new name to many of you, but they are forward thinking and have a lot of great ideas to bring to the titles, and as such we have some exciting times ahead! Also, as you will see as you read on, we have had a bit of a makeover - both inside and out - and we also now have a dynamic new cover design with a superb artwork from Christian Zambruno, and Christian will be providing a stunning cover every month, so look out for some really eye-catching front pages to come! We have also redesigned the page layouts to make them more ‘user friendly’ and from listening to your feedback, we have now moved all of the ‘news and previews’ sections to their more ‘traditional’ place the front of the magazine. All of the build and review sections now follow on, and again we have looked carefully at new page layouts here as well in order to make these more readable and accessible. From an editorial standpoint, I am very pleased to be on board with my fellow editor David Francis and also our now assistant Editor Tim Upson-Smith, and we will also be welcoming new contributors for our build features and review sections, alongside some more familiar names! David and I would also be pleased to hear from anyone who would like to join the review team, and you can contact us at andy@)modelaircraftmag. com, david@Jmodelaicraftmag.com or tim@) modelaircraftmag.com. So, with this new format we aim to continue to bring you all the latest aircraft modelling news from around the world, backed up with previews and reviews of the Latest kits, decals and accessories, as well building on our popular 'first look’ and ‘quick build' features. This month we have a host of excellent model projects to bring you, including a cover build of Eduard's 1/48 Bf 109F-4 and Airfix's latest ‘Black Mike' Phantom FG.1, plus a chance to win an exclusive, and ultra-rare 1/72 ‘Tim's Edition' Eduard VSB Kunkaldo! So, on behalf of David, Tim and myself, we hope you enjoy this double issue and happy modelling!
