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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.
A bit further along now. If you're wondering why these Progress reports aren't set up in WiP, there are only around 50 parts to this resin kit, and so I thought it unlikely to merit a full-blown WiP thread. This present post is in fact the [...]
Another 1/48 resin kit from Karaya. It's the little Italian scout A.1 Ballila, which was developed from the ruins of Ansaldo's SVA project. I'll add a little more detail in a later post, but thought I'd show a few sections now. You'd be [...]
The DFW C.V two-seater reconnaissance aircraft has been referred to by historians as one of the truly great aircraft of the First World War.
Developed in the early months of 1916 from earlier types, the first C.V production examples [...]
And on we go.
It's time to set the top wing and sort out the rigging. Depending on the kit, the process can be straightforward or arduous. With this resin kit, there are few if any positive locating points and the fact that the top wing is [...]
A little more work, this time with preliminary rigging.
The main image and those following show the empannage work to the control horns - fairly straightforward. You can also see my choice of rigging material; it's fly fishing line, and [...]
A little more work, prior to setting turnbuckle anchors. As you can see in the main photo, they're pretty small.
I mentioned previously that I was trying out the AK Interactive set of three CDL paints. I sprayed the undersides of the [...]
Progress on Karaya's diminutive resin model of the DFW C.V- 1/48 (quarter scale) is pretty small for Great War subjects, although the two-crew versions make for a nice-size model.
The cover image shows the resin wheels with the lovely P.E. [...]
This is Trumpeter's 1/35 Baureihe (Br-) 52 Kriegslocomotive with Steifrahmentender, but for this project I had no interest in the tender, or the sleepers and rails that built-up into a composite display base. The base here is plaster [...]
A few images of the ship itself as WiP were posted a few weeks ago, and the ship and diorama both are now complete as a project.
The ship base kit is Mantua's 1:60 version, with considerable scratch work. The crew figures are 25mm white [...]
