A title that is new to me is Armor Models magazine. It is published bimonthly, 64 pages of mostly color and is full of the kind of thing that seems to be very popular nowadays, and that is articles on superbly built models. All of the models in the book were made by Spaniards, which is not surprising considering that this is published in Spain!

None of the subjects is built straight from the box; all of the models shown have had some sort of scratch-building done and one is fully scratch-built. The quality of the articles runs from excellent to good. I know that this is subjective as some might think they all stink or are all outstanding, but to me, a good article needs to have a good write-up, good photos, and should cover the build from start to finish in both of those areas. Showing a few photos of the near complete model and then using most of the rest of the pictures to show how it was painted, seems to me to be missing something, especially when that model was scratch-built!

Anyway, here is what is in issue 4:

Chevrolet Long Range Desert Group truck: This is an excellent article on a 1/35 Tamiya kit that shows some build up of the kit, a generous number of photos of the completed model, and a nice history of the type with period photographs and some images of a preserved copy.

Next is a 1/35 Tamiya Tiger article that has several pages of profiles. This one has no images of the build, a single paragraph on assembly and the rest is on painting and weathering. The model is superbly done, as are all of those in this magazine.

There are two figure articles, both using Hornet figures in 1/35 scale. One uses a Verlinden photo-etched set.

Next is a 1/87 Rubezh Coastal Defense system, which is basically a mobile SS-2-N Styx launcher used in the 1970s. This is the article with few build pictures and lots of painting info. The article is very good and gives a decent description of how the kit was built.

The final build article is on a resin 1/35 T-28 Mod 1934 Soviet Tank. This is probably the best assembly article in the magazine, providing most of its pages to building this particular kit and the mods that are needed to improve it.

Finally, a neat article on making netting. The author shows how to make a jig and then how to use thread to build the net. I'm sure it will be found to be useful to many armor builders.

Overall, this is a fine magazine, the models that are featured are really outstanding and unlike much of what I see at contests, these truly do look like what they are supposed to be. No totally rusty tracks and wheels on these models. I do, however, get the impression that painting and weathering are the prime focus of the magazine. Much of the word space given is on that particular portion of the build, nevertheless, an excellent magazine and well worth your efforts to find.

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