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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 venturing into 1/32. Also like building old sports cars Have scratch built model muzzle loading cannon in the past.
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 [...]
This is my first car model, a Tamiya 1/24 Lotus Super 7, so here it is in all its glory and faults.
I replaced the kit seats with Scale Productions Sparco bucket seats and the kit wheels with Scale Productions 15" BRM wheels. The [...]
