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Just returned to the hobby after a 30 year gap, used to be a prolific modeler as a teenager then I discovered beer and girls, after all these years I have come to realise that only beer and scale modeling are true friends 🙂

A couple I forgot from last year.

I was going through 'My Stuff' and realised I hadn't shared any photo's of some 'targets' I built last year, from the top.. Dragon 1/35 Pz.Kpfw>IV Ausf.D mit 7.5cm Kw.K.40 L/43 built with Fruilmodel tracks. Dragon 1/35 Sd.Kfz.171 [...]

Vulcan Models 1/35 Zundapp K800 with STEIB Sidecar

Vulcan Models exquise little Zundapp in 1/35 scale, the grid on the cutting mat in the last photo is 1cm square.

Eduard 1/48 F6F-3

One I finished a few months ago, only just got around to processing the photos. It's a bit rough around the edges but I'm happy enough with it.

Diamond t 969A Wrecker

This is the Mirror Models kit of the Diamond T Wrecker, it's a complicated kit with lots of small parts and lots of even smaller parts, I added most of the LZ Models upgrade PE set, it was painted with Vallejo and weathered with AK [...]

Eduard Me109E-1

Still working on my D-Day build, I've become stuck on the tricky fit of the cowls on the Eduard 190 kit, but in the meantime I built this Eduard 1/48 Mw109E-1 with Brassin engine, cockpit and radio bay (not that you can see muck of the [...]

First for 2014

This is Mirror Models little Indian 741B Motorcycle in 1/35, and it is little, only about 60mm long! There are two complete kits in the box but so far I've only built one, lots of very small parts that require a lot of care removing from [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Hawker Typhoon Mk.1b

Hasegawa's excellent Typhoon made better with the inclusion of Barracuda cockpit, wheels and exhaust, invasion stripes, roundels and fin flashes were painted with the Montex Masks, I'm really liking these masks.

Eduard 1/48 Bf-108 Taifun, KG+EM, Sonderkommando Blaich, Libya 1942.

This is my most recent completion. It's the Eduard ProfiPack boxing and has been around for long enough for some wear to be apparent in the moulds as evidenced by some small amounts of flash on some parts and slightly larger than normal [...]

Riverside Scale Modellers club group build, 2013.

Every year the scale model club, Riverside Scale Modellers that I joined in August this year has a club group build, after some discussion a subject is chosen and providing that a kit valued at no more than $10 to $12 AU is available in [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Hurricane Mk.1

This is Tamiya's re boxing of the Italeri Mk.1 Hurricane, it was built with the addition of an Eduard Big-Ed set and won 1st place in the Riverside Scale Modellers October model of the month contest. Painted with Vallejo Model Air and [...]