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A UK expatriate now settled in Australia & living in Brisbane's Northern Suburbs.
I mostly build 1/48 scale aircraft, though I am known to take diversionary strolls into the one true scale (1/72) & build the odd 1/35th AFV. I returned to the hobby back in the early nineties when a mate from work sold me some of his old kits. I went on to build intermittently (read once in a blue moon) and am now trying to make amends.

1/76 Cromwell: Daughter & Dad Co-Build

The last of my Airfix builds for 2016, though this strictly speaking isn't one of mine, but rather my daughter Aemilia's build...I just painted it, and stuck a few more bits on when she lost interest... Purchased back in 2015 from our [...]

Natty Gnat

Airfix's 1/72 Red Arrows Gnat Stater Set completed earlier this year (2016). Built pretty much out of box, except I discarded the paints that came with the set & opted for Vallejo acrylics, buffed and then layered with generous coats [...]

Early Emil: Airfix’s 1/48 Bf.109E-1

If you want an accurate 'kerbside' representation of a Bf.109E you really can't go far wrong with Airfix's 1/48 scale offering released some five or six years ago. It's not a bad kit, not as well finessed as the Eduard kit, but a lot [...]

A Guilty Pleasure: Airfix's 1/72 Spitfire Mk.1a Starter Set

To keep with the theme of things Airfix this is a recent out of box build of their Spitfire Mk1a starter set: Purchased for the princely sum of $10 a year or so ago from my local Aldi Supermarket in the Northern Suburbs of Brisbane, this [...]

Trumpeter 1/35 Stridsvagn 103B Main Battle Tank

One of Trumpeter's early offerings was the Swedish S Tank: the Srv 103B. This is my first go at doing a tank in 1/35th, and I elected to choose one of my all time favourites to start my foray into AFV modelling. It's a pretty [...]

Eduard 1/72 Albatros DV

Eduard's diminutive 1/72 Albatros D.V with markings from Jasta 12, from the summer of 1917 This is Eduard's non profi-pack offering from 2000, a no thrills basic kit that looked pretty nice in the box. This was built for my daughter, [...]

Under New Management Comrade!

The Dragon 1/48 Fw190D-9 with a slightly different scheme than normal! A Dora under the Red Star: This model depicts one of a number operated by the Soviet Red Army out of Marienburg, East Prussia from the Spring of 1945. These allegedly [...]

PZL P-11c

The Mirage Hobby's 1/48 PZL P-11c which I built about five years ago. This was Poland's standard day fighter in the September Campaign of 1939, and is a pretty iconic aircraft for anyone interested in Polish aviation. The markings are [...]

Eduard Yak-3

My first completed project for 2015 is Eduard's 1/48 Yak-3. The markings are for Yellow 15 flown by Semion Rogow, 1st Guard's Division in 1945. It's one of the early Profi Pack editions dating back to the late nineties, & I picked [...]

ICM Yak-9DD

Getting in my last one before 2014 is over, is a project I completed about this time last year: ICM's Yak-9DD, finished in the scheme of the "Warsaw" fighter regiment circa April 1945 and piloted by one A Matveev. In all [...]