98 articles · 5.1K karma · 2 friends · active 8 years ago

I'm rediscovering the magic of model making, something that has not been a part of my life for nearly three decades!

I can remember the unbridled joy it used to give me as a young lad when, with pocket money in hand, I'd soon find myself of a Saturday morning eagerly scanning the rows and rows of boxes in my local model shop trying to decide which kit to take home with me for that week's enjoyment. Now I want to recapture that excitement and the pride of a kit well made.

Video: Weathering the Airfix 1/72 Hawker Typhoon MkIb

A wee tutorial of sorts on one of the methods I use to age an aircraft's airframe. The finished article was weathered entirely with the pigments shown. The kit was built OOB with the only scratch-built enhancements being the Sutton seat [...]

Video: LTP - Revell's Republic Star Destroyer Pt1

LTP = Long Term project. Because I don't have enough of them already. 🙂

Video: Pt1 of the Trumpeter 1/48 Westland Whirlwind build

(link)

Video: Double-Duty DornierMatchbox style.

Built for Aaron Newlands Group Build as well as my club's August Competition night. It was Matchbox. Did you guess that?

Video: Tamiya 1/48 US 2.5 ton 6x6 Airfield Fuel Truck reveal

Check out Jim's Kitmaker site at www.kitmmaker.net

Video: Italeri 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt

Featured in Issue 5, Volume 36, July 2014 of Scale Aircraft Modelling (link)

Video: Sprue tour! Trumpeter 1/48 Westland Whirlwind

Big thanks to Jim Starkweather of Kitmaker Network for supplying this kit. www.kitmaker.net

Video: A Lanc and a Landy: The June update.

(link) (link)

Video: Trumpeter 1/48 Nanchang CJ-6

Please excuse the second spelling of 'techniques' - those qs get everywhere. Also, has anyone seen my c, I seem to have mislaid it? Built for Scale Aircraft Modelling Magazine and published in issue 04, June 2014. (link)

Video: Williams Brothers 1/32 Caudron C.450

Built for Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine and published in Issue 03, Volume 36, May 2014. (link)