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This hobby that we indulge in is just amazing, we build, in scale, replicas of the original, look at references and pictures and read the History to create the model as accurately as we can, we even try to tell a story in diorama's. How many late nights, long hours we dedicate in the pursuit of the elusive "perfect model".
I am a 52 year old Project Manager that loves Flying and Aircraft, I have a wonderful Wife and Daughter, and this Hobby, I am Blessed. I build Aircraft in 1/32 scale and I have built a few aircraft in 1/24 scale, from WW2 to the Vietnam era. I am also very much into scratch building 1/32 scale civil and military aircraft not found in kit form.
Please have a look at my web site
Barris Models
I built this kit about 8 Months ago, it was the first time I used Alclad paints with varnishes, I used an aftermarket pilot figure that I purchased from Eagle Editions. I did not have to add any detail kits or do any scratch building with [...]
I have been posting pictures in the group build of this kit. Well I can finally say that it is complete. I am not a professional Photographer, but I hope you enjoy the pictures non the less, the last pictures I took I placed it with a P 51 [...]
This is a Trumpeter spitfire Mk 5 that I converted to the Mk8, I had to scratch build quite a few of the components.
Lengthened the nose, and changed the Engine, which is from a 1/24 scale Mustang.
I resin cast the spinner as well as the [...]
This is a Cheetah D of the South African Air force. I used the old Revel 1/32 scale Mirage 3 kit as the base to work with.
I scratch built the whole cockpit tub with instrument panels and seats, vacuum formed the canopy and I used lead [...]
This was the first Zoukei Mura Kit that I built, It depicts an aircraft that flew in Vietnam on Sandy Rescue missions. This kit was so well engineered that all I tried to do was give it a good paint job, add a few wires and that was about [...]
Firstly let me apologise for the poor pictures, I will post better ones when I get back home from the Congo.
This Centurion tank kit was released by Tamiya in 1973.
The was a tank given to me to build from a friend of mine Tappie Scholtz [...]
This is a 1/32 scale Harvard built from the Kitty hawk kit. I Scratch built the engine and opened the side access panel by the cockpit and added additional detail, I really enjoyed building this icon of South African Aviation.
