For the Motherland!
Multimedia installation on a Russian theme.
За Родину!
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.
USS Enterprise
Five miles from my house is Snetterton Park. It's now better known for its raceway, where many Formula One drivers trained in their early careers. Originally, it was Snetteron Heath, a B-17 base in WW2, home of the 96th Bomb Group. There's [...]
Telford (Captain’s Log Supplemental) 3
Third of three photo files.
Telford (Captain's Log Supplemental) 2
Second of three photo files.
Telford (Captain's Log Supplemental) 1
Further to Martin's recent series of photos, I include three files of miscellaneous images taken over the weekend, to give you a 'flavour' of the event. Any photos of the main halls themselves were taken before public admission times so [...]
Grenadier, Sixth Army, Stalingrad 1942-43 (Repost)
Continuing the recent figure-painting theme, this is the last in my current series of larger scale resin figures, in this case, a 120mm (1/16) German Grenadier sculpted by Jeff Shiu (Jeff Shiu Minatures). The only addition has been the [...]
Model Engineering & Model Making Exhibition – Part 2
Notes as Part 1 (P.S. - Apologies that some of the images are a little out of focus).
Model Engineering & Model Making Exhibition – Part 1
The first annual Lowestoft (Suffolk) Model Engineering and Model Making Exhibition took place this weekend. As the name suggests, it was principally hand-built modelling based on steam/traction/clockwork mechanisms. One of our club members [...]
Sgt. McCabe, First Anglo-Sikh War, Sobraon, 1846
Bernard McCabe occupies a special place in the history of the 31st Regiment.
As a Sergeant in the 31st Foot he displayed outstanding bravery at the Battle of Sobroan on 10th February 1846. When both officers carrying the Colours had been [...]
Bugler, 68th (Durham) Light Infantry, Inkerman, 1854
This is a 1/16 bust from Stormtroopers Miniatures.
The Charge of the Light Brigade is perhaps the best known battle of the Crimean War, where Lord Cardigan led light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaklava on 25 [...]
