Sunday, February 23

Preview: New from Pla Editions - the latest Dioramag Vol. 5 is released...

Diorama makers and fans wait now for each new instalment of the new "Dioramag" series to come to light - and now Issue #5 is already for sale on the Pla Editions Website. We have a preview of what to expect in the latest issue...



Preview: New from Pla Editions - the latest Dioramag Vol. 5 is released...

Dioramag Vol. 5
From Pla Publishing
A4, Portrait Format
English Language
96 pages
15,00 €
Dioramag: an entire magazine focused on dioramas and scenes. You will find the best articles of the best modellers and writers in the world. Step by step articles, painting techniques, building techniques, showcases, news, reviews and much more. We have a preview of the latest issue of the magazine with new builds and classics for inspiration from the modelling world.

Contents of Vol# 5: 
"Starvation Cove" By Per Olav Lund- - This scratch build diorama has been in the making for many months, and now for the first time in print the whole scene and the making of it are displayed in the pages of Volume 5 of this series...
News Section:  the latest new items and products are briefly highlighted for you to maybe use on your own forthcoming scenes and scenarios.

Showcase Dioramag: Imre Kovács - scenes from Imre's impressive works like this one "Rust-nestling" Tamiya T-55A in 1/35 scale.
"Der Letzte Akt" By László Gaál, in which we see Germans fighting their way to the west to surrender to the US forces at the end of WWII in Czechoslovakia...
Our idol Robert Doepp has several pieces of his collection in the Showcase Dioramag in this issue. You might remember Robert's motorcycle models or maybe this Sturmtiger in 35th scale... 
“In Quest Of The Quantum” By Bob Letterman. Bob is a world renowned diorama builder, founder and former president of VLS Corporation and all it's production companies. Bob has won hundreds of awards in the U.S. and Europe. Articles in magazines from America, Japan, China, Germany, Italy and England brought expanded notoriety. He is known as the master of the large scale diorama for a good reason...
In Diorama Classics we look at the work of Phil Stutcinskas - Phil has made a name for himself in such dioramas that you might see around the place but did not know they were the work of this same man.
As always there is a portion of the issue dedicated to the Japanese Masters - this eddition features the work of Tetsuo Horikawa
Our friend Roger Hurkmans has a section dedicated to him in "Showcase Dioramag" this issue - the "creator of scenes like this one "Zwischen Plattensee und Budapest" he certainly deserves the attention.
"Rebel's Storm" diorama is set during Libya's recent civil uprising against the dictatorship in an  amazing diorama from the artist Imad Bouantoun...
"Flamingos" is an all new diorama with a bit of a hidden star wars theme we thing from Tetsuya Kaneko...
We get to see the "First Photo In Peacetime" in a gentle scene from Štěpán Los that recreates the new world after the fighting has ended after WWII...
"The Hornet’s Nes"t By Konstantinos Tsiompris' captures a frantic scene from the last days int he fighting in Europe in WWII in the battle for Berlin. It captures the final hours of that desperate fight for the Nazi capital...

This latest issue is available with all others from the range from the Pla Editions Website...