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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.
About a year ago I posted a few images of my first figure painting, famed Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev, the bust itself modelled on the period of Stalingrad 1942.
I recently used the base for this figure for the Sgt. Masterson bust (posted [...]
This is Stormtroopers Miniatures new 1/10 resin bust (sculpted by Carl Reid), depicting Sgt. Patrick Masterson of the 87th Regiment of Foot (Royal Irish Fusiliers), at the Battle of Barrosa during the Peninsular War.
On March 5, 1811, [...]
This is the Airfix 1/24 Hawker Typhoon Mk.1B.
A complex build across 220+ steps of a 45+ page instruction guide, areas have been stripped back further to view the airframe "under the skin", and I've added details not found in [...]
EuroMilitaire is one of the UK's premier modelling exhibitions, taking place in September in Folkestone, Kent. The two-day event, now in its 29th year, attracts upwards of 3000 visitors.
Folkestone's proximity to Dover, with the latter's [...]
Five months ago, I posted the Headlines article, “Big Fish” - Rotterdam Oude Haven 1952. It depicted the salvage of a Heinkel bomber (Revell 1/32 modelled) into a small Dutch port several years after WW2. Having lived with the diorama [...]
This is Hasagawa's 1/32 G6, detailed-up with the Master Detail set. I confess this isn't a new build; it was done a year or so back. I was going through some previous files on Photobucket and saw a couple of photos of it, and decided to [...]
Back in January, I posted details of an on-going build of the wooden ship, Royal Caroline.
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By rights, it's a work-in-progress, but the actual build takes so long, and as I only return to it from time to time (eight months in this [...]
