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Hello fellow modelers!
My name is Manuel, I was born in 1968 in Portugal and I work in Information Technologies.
As a model maker, my main focus is 1/72 and 1/48 scale airplanes and 1/35 military vehicles and figures.
I always try to tell a story through my models. A famous pilot's aircraft, something I've seen in a photograph, a book or elsewhere. That's why you'll find a 'real' photo among the others in the post. For this same reason, my models have different levels of weathering, depending on the reality they are representing.
Personally I like (and this hobby is to give us some pleasure) dirty and worn out models, but I also understand that this is not always the reality and therefore these techniques are not always suitable.
In fact, making a model look like 'normal' wear and tear can also be a challenge.
In conclusion, I hope you enjoy my stories and I ask for constructive and sincere criticism.
Thanks,
Manuel
This is an old Matchbox kit from the 1970's, that we still remember 🙂
The Stuka was a very special aircraft, specialy for a young boy. Having built a couple in the 1970/80's imagine what I felt when a friend gave me another [...]
Had this kit in the stash for a long time (yes, this is the old one), waiting for the courage to build it. Horror stories preventing me to...
Well, it's not an easy kit but it's doable.
Finding a photo of the real one (see attached) was [...]
A little easy kit from Revell 🙂 the instructions are not correct to build this option (the MK58 has some diferences), but all the pieces are in the box, although listed as 'not to use' so, one just need to do some research.
I built this [...]
In the 1950s/60s, Portugal had 3 SA-16A Albatross operating (together with some SB-17g) on SAR missions in the Azores archipelago.
Due to a series of accidents and other events and options, the career of these aircraft in the FAP, [...]
Finished over a year ago, a small 1/72 Spitfire in Portuguese colors. Almost a weekend project.
Gunze paints and homemade decals.
A nice, relaxed build for a rainy weekend.
And yes, the code was like that, port and starboard different... [...]
Painted this Nutsplanet figure 1/10 scale last may as a tribute to the brave men of D-Day, in this case in the image of Dick Winters from the TV series 'Band of Brothers'.
Hope you like, 🙂
M
Nutsplanet figure 1/10 scale
My Tamiya 1/48 Bf-109 E-4 Trop and Kubelwagen diorama, finished last Dec 2023, has been waiting for some photos. Here, at last!
Insignias and national marks were masked and painted. A lot of work but I thinks it worth it (see notes on [...]
Atlantic Wall - Flak emplacement; 1/35 scale
In the 1980s, Francois Verlinden (Verlinden Productions - VP) left his mark on a whole generation of modelers. His productions are still a reference in the imagination of many today and, [...]
The young Winston Churchill, in his early 20s, still at the beginning of his military career.
I chose to give a really youthful, almost childish, look to the figure, without wrinkles or deep shadows, and maintaining an impeccable uniform [...]
Sergeant Elias, from the 1986 movie 'Platoon'.
'Nuts Planet' figure at 1/10 scale.
Very fun figure to paint, although with some fit issues with the arm fittings.
Painted with acrylics.
Hope you like it 🙂
