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Although we now live in New Zealand, I'm still very 'British'. Got my first kit for my 7th birthday and been building ever since - I'm 52 now.
Occasionally I build 1:35 AFV's, but mainly I build military aircraft of all most era in most scales, as a 'break' from aircraft building I also build 1:25/24 NASCAR racers and the occasional (American) car.
Just finished this morning for the Korean War 'Campaign' (Group Build) over at Modellers Alliance, my other modelling 'home'. This is the Dragon M46 that I bought when it was a 'new' release way back in 1995 !. Only now did I attempt it as [...]
Hello again:
This is from this time last year - my first 'Kiwi' build since washing-up here in 2012. It's the superb Tamiya 1:48 Corsair, but with a few extras: An Eduard 'Zoom' set for the cockpit, Ultracast resin prop & wheels and a [...]
Kit - Hobbyboss 1:35
Paint - All Tamiya acrylics.
Decals - SuperScale/Squadron 350001
Extras - None.
Completing this so soon after the Leo is entirely coincidental. I bought this on impulse in 2011, and started the interior almost as soon [...]
Last year I finally gave-in to my 'need' for a 1:35 Leopard tank, and bought the superb TAKOM 1A5 kit... Upon opening it I very quickly realised that my limited abilities simply were't up to the task of painstakingly assembling 712 pieces [...]
In Spring 2011, I built and entered a Tamiya 1:48 A-1 Skyraider for the Vietnam War Group-Build at www.britmodeller.com . I was lucky enough to be voted ‘third overall’ in the resultant poll, and thought no more about it until a couple [...]
Having only just joined this site, I was/am a little reticent about posting an article in to 'Headlines' - it seems a little 'pushy' to me. However a couple of the guys suggested it would be fine and it's likely a few more folks may see it [...]
