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Ex RAAF Instrument fitter and Retired Maint. Eng. just restarted building models after a 60 year lapse. like to build WW1 aircraft and have done several 1/72 scale but now mainly into 1/32 as the old eyes and shakes don't help with the smaller scales. Also like building old sports and racing cars . Have scratch built model muzzle loading cannon in the past , have also custom built muzzleloading rifles and shotguns for competitive shooters, mainly flintlocks.
The Sopwith Triplane was an extension of the Sopwith "Pup" design in that it utilised a modified Pup fuselage with the 3 wings being of an unusually low chord which would improve the pilots view from the cockpit. It also sported [...]
I started this kit back in April and from the very start realised that it had many problems. The fit of all parts was good and the moulding ok but the detail and mistakes just kept occuring as I got into it.
It's supposed to be a SE5a but [...]
The Bristol M.1C was the only British monoplane fighter of the Great War, of which only 125 were built. Most of these aircraft were used for training, but a few squadrons were stationed in Macedonia and Mesopotamia towards the end of the [...]
The Fokker D11 was designed to take over from the Fokker E1, E11 & E111 monoplanes. It even utilised the rear fuselage and tailplane of the Eindecker and used wing warping for lateral control as did the monoplanes. Fitted with a 100hp [...]
I am mainly into WW1 aircraft but saw this kit and had to buy and build it, let me explain.
When I was a young boy growing up on the farm we had a neighbour who always drove his tractor standing up on the footplates. Being inquisitive [...]
These are model scratch built cannon that I have put together over the past 50 years using scrap brass and timber off-cuts from the workshop. They are not to scale and are not type specific, just representative of an era.
Photo 1&2 is [...]
The Nieuport 23 was a French sesquiplane fighter which the RFC received in May 1917, where upon they removed the fuselage mounted Vickers gun and installed a Lewis gun on a Foster mount to the top wing. The aircraft depicted here is the [...]
I was given this kit for my birthday and was advised to do it in the red livery of Manfred Von Richthofen, so here it is. The kit was a pleasure to build and I included Quinta Studio interior 3D decals as well as Gaspatch machine guns and [...]
The most successful of British race cars of the 1920's would be the Bentleys, however the 1929 4.5lt blower Bentley did not live up to expectations on the race track and only 50 cars were built. The cars weighted around 2 tonne and the 240 [...]
I came across this kit on ebay whilst looking for info on the K3 MG. Being an avid fan of the marque and an ex owner of both an MG TC and an MGA mk2 I decided to buy the K3 kit. It was over priced and overseas but what the heck its a [...]
