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I live in central Scotland & have been modelling for over thirty years, although in recent years have focussed on figure painting. Returned to kit-building this year.
Getting married & having a baby boy has seriously impacted my hobby time, but he's five years old now so I'm getting a little bit of time back. Plus of course introducing the wee man gently to modelling!
Loving this site, there are some really talented modellers out there and thankyou for sharing your work. Most of my projects have been figure painting, particularly Napoleonic era so I understand not of much interest to members here - I've been lucky enough to have been sent test shots of figures from a US company called HaT so they can feature my painted figured on their website - so far the pinnacle of my modelling achievements!
Will start posting some photos of my recent kits when I feel brave enough. Cheers guys.
My idea was to construct a diorama using this excellent kit, but given my attention span & the shiny new box sitting next to my desk I thought I'd post some pics before my son sits on it or something.
Like many others I'm a huge [...]
Hello, chaps. After the Chieftain I fancied doing some kind of quick build, and this little thing caught my attention. And my goodness, it IS little! Learning about tanks/armour as I go along here, but it's hard to believe this is 1/72 [...]
Hello again. Well, here it is - my first contribution.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about tanks to provide much of a narrative here. Thanks for the guidance re the weathering... I took it pretty easy on that in the end, was just a bit [...]
Hi guys, new member - nice to meet you!
Please forgive the lack of a photo with this article; I'm on my work computer & so not able to upload just at the moment. Reason for posting is basically to ask for a little advice.
Having [...]
