Modelar has been published longer than any other Czech modelling title, and this section keeps the whole run together: current issues, the expanded Extra editions and earlier volumes. Individual issues are divided by year, so you can add the one number missing from your shelf or pick up a whole volume at once. The title has always covered three fields side by side - plastic kits, flying and radio-controlled models, and paper subjects - which is why a single issue mixes reviews, scale plans, bench methods and competition reports. Below we explain how the section is organised and what to bear in mind when completing a run.
The structure follows the year of publication: each volume has its own subsection, so you can search within a year instead of scrolling the whole magazine listing. Separate parts hold the Extra editions and earlier issues for which no individual volume year is given. Collecting systematically? Work volume by volume. Hunting one article or one plan? Search by number and year.
A magazine is a different kind of source from a monograph. Where a book treats one machine, an issue mixes reviews, methods, scale plans and competition reports. Methods and plans have a long life, because gluing, sanding and spraying have not changed enough in a decade to make an older article useless.
Keep a record of what you already hold. Knowing exactly which numbers you are missing is the difference between a growing collection and a drawer of duplicates.
Modelar is published in Czech, which is its main advantage over imported modelling periodicals: methods and technical terms arrive in the language Czech builders use among themselves. The format is conventional magazine size, with the Extra editions running longer.
Books and other periodicals are gathered in modelling literature.
