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2.TAMIYA INSIDE
This fortieth issue of Panzer Aces is dedicated to Tamiya and some of their last military model kits. In this introductory article, Mig Jimenez interviews Nobuo Yoshioka to relate us the history of one of the most prestigious model kit producers of the world.

6. T-55 ENIGMA (1/35)
One of the most active and innovator modellers of the European panorama, Jose Luís lópez, uses one of the last productions of Tamiya to go through a new way of painting military vehicles.

20. BT-42 (1/35) (1/35)
Another modeller with an unmistakeable style, Jari Hemillä, do not hesitate to paint this original vehicle in an original way. The Finnish self propelled gun BT-42 is a wonderful kit that Tamiya released after their great BT-7 model kit.

30. BEAST FROM THE EAST, ISU-152 (1/35)
In our last issue, we presented you how to transform this great model kit into the 122mm gun version. In this article, Murat Özgül surprise to us with a great finishing of the original offer of Tamiya, the ISU-152.

42. AUSTRALIAN MATILDA MK.III/IV (1/35)
Erik Helm transforms this beautiful reference number 300 of the Tamiya Military Miniatures range in a tropical version with the help of a resin aftermarket. As he explains, if the Matilda was the “Queen of the Desert”, this tropical version should be the “Queen of the Jungle”.

58. THE ACES: SS USCHA, NORMANDY (1/35)
In our regular section about figure painting, our friend Jose Manuel Flores explains how to paint a figure of an NCO dressed with a leather uniform of the 12-SS.Panzer-Division in Nomandy.

62. MODELLING LESSONS : CRACKLED PAINT
In this issue, Modelling Lessons deals about the crackled paint and how they work in the modelling world.