AFV Modeller

AFV Modeller #33 - March/April 2007 Euro Militaire Special

Reviewed By  Andrew Birkbeck, IPMS# 27087

MSRP: 6.00 British Pounds (US$12) www.afvmodeller.com Another issue of arguably the best English-language armor magazine going, Issue 33 concentrates on articles covering Gold Medal winners from the 2006 Euro Militaire exhibition. There are four main military modeling articles in this issue: Krupp Steyr Waffentrager: modeler Adam Wilder builds the New Connection resin kit of this "paper panzer". "Scram": modeler Berhard Lustig's amazing WW2 Kursk diorama. This features a heavily detailed DML Panzerjager Ferdinand as well as heavily modified and scratch built figures. Konrad III: modeler Phil Stutcinskas creates a breath-taking diorama covering a Panzer IV Ausf. J commanded by Erich Brock of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking" in Hungary, 27th January 1945. This diorama won the coveted Best in Show award at Euro Militaire 2006. Nashorn: modeler Dave Clark's diminutive 1/72nd Nashorn "wreck" vignette, Italy 1945. A fifth piece written by Kristof Pulinckx rounds out the modeling articles and describes his building and detailing of DML's 1/35th Su-100 for which he was awarded a Silver Medal at Euro '06. Then we have another in AFV Modeller's "Xtreme Detail" series, this one covering an up-armored Swedish Centurion tank, and finally the usual sections on new releases. As with all previous AFV Modeller issues, #33 is filled with eye-popping models that have been very well photographed in various stages of construction and finishing. All the models are expertly built and are deserved winners of Gold and Silver at one of Europe's premiere military modeling shows. Throughout each article, the authors offer up various modeling techniques, documented as mentioned with excellently posed photography. If you want some inspiration for your own modeling projects, you can't go wrong picking up a copy of this superb magazine! If there is one, albeit minor, downside to this magazine, it is a failure to edit the text. Clearly, a number of the authors write English as a second language and their prose could do with some subtle editing to make the articles flow a little more smoothly. Other than this, a first rate production. I would like to thank the publishers of AFV Modeller for supplying IPMS/USA with this review copy.

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