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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 five miles from my home, heading south on the A11, lies the village of East Harling. The English Whisky Company has a distillery there, and I recently went on a little tour of the place, courtesy of a Christmas gift from my [...]
This is the Trumpeter 1/32 version of the Me 262 nightfighter. Rather than the modelling-standard of mottled camo, I wanted to replicate the in-theatre, brush-applied version, often seen in late-war photos (similar example in archive photo [...]
To advise, under the Groups tab, I've uploaded upwards of 350 images from the Imperial War Museum (Duxford), including the tank museum, and also images from the RAF Hendon museum, for your perusal and future reference.
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As 2014 approaches, and with it the centenary of the onset of the Great War, I thought I'd post a few photos of one of the principal aircraft of the conflict, in the livery of one of its greatest pilots.
This is Roden's 1/32 kit of Georges [...]
You may have read the recent comments between Tom and me on his Jav posting, re maintaining classic aircraft in a difficult economic climate. At the former RAF base at Flixton, Norfolk, there is a Jav, Vixen, Meteor, Mig, and a host of [...]
Another 1/48 Airfix 'Fighter All Weather' representative, on the back of Tom's recent Jav post.
No photos of the cockpit areas. Although detailed, they are truely 'coal holes' and not supportive of pretty pictures.
This is the 1/32 Revell kit of the Ju 88 A-1, B3 + DR, 7/KG 54, 'Battle of Britain, September 1940'. This aircraft features the Geschwader emblem (skull and crossbones) on the nose, with a diagonal yellow fuselage band and the number 27 on [...]
In this project, I wanted to create a scene using German armour and a selection of personnel, within standard diorama parameters, represented by the Ardennes offensive in the autumn and winter period 1944/45.
The basis of the diorama was [...]
A documentary history of every enemy aircraft brought down over the United Kingdom, September 1939 to 14 August 1940
Nigel Parker
Red Kite Aviation Publishing
ISBN 978-1-906592-09-7
First Edition 2013
Perfect bound,128 pp. Illustrated. RRP [...]
This is the Eduard 1/32 kit of the E1, the first in their E-series. I had it for ages before I finally got round to the build.
I've modelled it as Ulrich Steinhilper's machine at Calais in 1940 (see record photograph). The markings were [...]
