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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
Hi Guys,
I haven't been posting anything for a while, work has been taking up a lot of my time.
I decided a while ago that I would like to build a Mirage III BZ from the South African Airforce, so here are a few pictures of the build so [...]
Here we go again,
I received this wonderful little kit from Nita at Icaerodesign, It arrived in a really small box, that was filled with the most wonderful Resin castings that I have seen in a long time, not to mention the White metal and [...]
This is my completed Westland Wessex from Fly Models, Man this is a big kit, and a enjoyment to build.
I did quite a bit of scratch building in the interior and the open avionics bay in the nose, as you will see from the first pictures I [...]
Hey Guys, I received this Kit for Christmas, It was one from Marc to Marc, and Marc knows exactly what I need for Christmas.
Started this early December and continued with the build till I had to leave for the Congo again for a few [...]
Its been a while since I last posted one of my builds on the site, work and everyday life has been preventing me getting much build time, however, I managed to complete the Silver Wings Hawker Demon, and converted it into a 40 Squadron [...]
This is a kit that I have been searching for for quite a while now, my collection of models would be incomplete unless I had a Pitts to add.
I found this kit at Fisher Models and I had a hard time getting it to me in South Africa, the [...]
This is a model of a P 39 Q that was stationed on Makin Island in the Gilberts in 1943. The aircraft were originally painted in olive drab and whilst on the island they were re painted in a sand colour which used to weather quite [...]
This is a converted 1/24 Scale Trumpeter FW 190 D9 to a 1/24 Scale TA 152 H.
Man this was a lot of work, and sleepless nights.
I first obtained scale drawings of the TA 152 in 1/32 Scale and scaled them up to 1/24 Scale, I matched the [...]
I built this kit about a year ago. I was just having a look at it and was inspired to post some pictures for you guys to comment on.This is a really big kit, the amount of paint it took to paint the model can be measured in litres, not to [...]
This aircraft was stationed at AFB Langebaanweg Air Operations School in South Africa circa 1953.It was flown by 1 Squadron and was used to train aircrew going to fight in Korea in F 51 D Mustangs.
This is another of those great Tamiya [...]
