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My modelling interests centred originally around aircraft, but other projects include armour, civilian vehicles, figures, ships and dioramas, and these have achieved gold-medal standards at the British Nationals and other regional exhibitions.

I've had a few projects featured in photo galleries on Cybermodeler, Armorama, and Aeroscale, but find I'm never really satisfied with a completed model, and so keep building in hope of achieving that elusive 'perfect model'.

I enjoy looking at the work of other modellers, for inspiration.

Year in Review (theme)

Following on from Rob Anderson's post, I've tagged the project images I've posted since the last week of December 2014. I don't remember doing half of them - maybe old age creeping in...

Telford Walkaround (6)

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Telford Walkaround (5)

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Telford Walkaround (4)

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Telford Walkaround (1)

I'm posting various photo essays of the Telford weekend, of clubs and SIGs, but excluding new products and Competition areas, which have been covered by Martin and Halvar.

Modelling Likes

A request really - our club set up its Facebook page last year and the link has slowly been gaining momentum. Last month, we had two new members join the club, having come across it on Facebook, which we thought was a good thing. I'm [...]

Veterans

A Napoleonic vignette. This French mounted Hussar and Drummer Boy on a terrain base are sculpted by Richard Bailey in resin and white metal at 90mm, from www.bonapartesmilitarymodels.co.uk They've been photographed against two different [...]

“Shove Off!”

This Pacific diorama has a similar theme to that of "All Washed-Up", posted here a few weeks ago. The Zero used in the earlier piece was depicted as part-destroyed, and, having the 'missing' pieces still to hand, I incorporated [...]