Flight Craft 12: The Junkers Ju87 Stuka
If you want to immerse yourself in the building of a particular model aircraft, a book from the “Flight Craft” series could make the perfect companion for your project. Like […]
Category Archives: German
1/700 German Harbor
This post has a new destroyer in it, Z38 (Zerstörer 1936 Narvik Klasse). This post also has our Bismarck battleship in it. One of my favorite ships is the Prinz […]
Airfix 1/72 Ju87B-2 Stuka Diorama
The kit featured here, Airfix’s excellent new-tool Stuka in desert camouflage, was most enjoyable to build.
Sd. Kfz. 184 “Elefant” in 1/72
These behemoths are sort of known as the “Edsel” of German tank production, and a good example of what many have called German “over-engineering.”
1/72 German “Green Devil” Fallschirmjäger
The swan song of actual airborne assaults by German parachute units was the Pyrrhic conquest of Crete: objectives were taken and the island fell, but at a horrific cost to the Fallschirmjäger. From then on, German airborne troops continued throughout the war to serve on the Mediterranean and Western fronts as elite ground forces but rarely if ever in parachute assaults.
Images of War: The Eighth Army in North Africa
Like its many popular cousins in the Images of War series, The Eighth Army in North Africa uses page after page of photographs, primarily, to retell the story of a famous campaign from […]
Images of War: The Fall of Berlin
IMAGES OF WAR: THE FALL OF BERLIN is a richly detailed photographic record of the German military in 1945.
Book Review: Panther Tanks
Panther Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS, Normandy Campaign 1944, by Dennis Oliver, is tailor made for hobbyists. It offers modelers and tank buffs the same successful formula as other books in […]
1/72 Panther Tanks, Part 2, with Infantry
New Panther tanks with accompanying infantry.
Heinkel He219A-5 “Uhu” Night Fighter
Judged by some to have been “the best night fighter of the war,” the Uhu (“Eagle Owl”) incorporated everything the Germans had learned about aerial combat in the dark.
