*Volume 20 No. 5 - Sept/Oct 2004
*GENUINE WWI FRENCH AEROPLANE COLOUR PHOTO!
Lance Krieg's gorgeous Ansaldo SVA 5 based on the 1:48 Spin resin is this issue's lead model feature with dozens of step-by-step photos im monotone and colour! There's the amazing story of the RAF Museum's DH9A restoration and no less amazing, our exclusive Stateside report on the latest Hollywood biopic The Aviator -the epic life of Howard Hughes- with pre-war images of Hells Angels aircraft accompanying modern recreations... Centrespread features our second aeroplanes of WWI VC airmen this one depicting Reggie Warneford's Morane Saulnier Type L and Zeppelin LZ 37 artwork from the editor. Latest news; extended book and kit reviews plus more great models from our readers. It's true, only the best model magazines have the best modelling readers...
* This issue was featured on BBC's HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU Series 28, programme 7 first broadcast on 3 December 2004-it can still be viewed on a number of streaming platforms...
JOHN Chapman MBE has the inside story on the RAF Museum's DH9A restoration with an exclusive behind the scenes story and photos,whilst Tom Doherty has the low down on Martin Scorsese's epic Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator that recreates the filming of Hells Angels:colour photos on set combine with actual stills from the original 1930 movie from Harry Woodman's collection.
Master modeller Lance Krieg makes an amazing Ansaldo SVA5 wrought from the 1:48 scale Spin resin kit and it's a real beauty. Plenty of modelling know-how here in a special eight page build log that includes over 85 colour and monochrome construction steps! We continue our exclusive series on early colour photos with a pre-war German pusher biplane and a stunning study of Buc aerodrome in 1917 where a Farman F.47 takes centre stage with many AR.1 biplanes behind-an evocative and fascinating image.There are over five pages of new kits assessed by the editor, plus readers' models in colour;detailed book reviews and a readers' letters page with wing/strut building notes for Eduard Camel kits.The centre pages give way to colour profiles of Warneford VC's iconic Morane Saulnier Type L and the Zeppelin LZ 37 he vanquished on 7June 1915.
***UK readers may have seen this particular issue featured in the popular BBC 1 satirical programme Have I Got News For You broadcast on 3 December 2004, the seventh episode of Series 28-the first,and to date the only,modelling magazine to have been so honoured!