84 articles · 5.8K karma · 22 friends · active 4 days, 20 hours ago
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.
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 [...]
