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Representing reality in miniature.

“See you on the beach!”

Something I have always wanted to do is a D-Day US Navy LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) but have always been worried about doing sea water. But when my local club said the group build was D-Day theme then it was time to conquer my 'fear of [...]

Maiale, The diorama

This feels a bit like cheating as I squeeze two articles from one model but the S.L.C. “Maiale” seemed a bit lonely sitting on my shelf in its cradle so I decided to make another diorama. The ship hull was fun to build. Even if it’s [...]

Endure freedom

"Endure freedom" title derives from the imaginative names of US military intervention such as "Iraqi Freedom" or "Enduring Freedom". Miniarts T-55 with scratchbuilt interior. Dioparks Mercedes. Figures both [...]

Dragon’s Sd.Kfz 131 Marder 2 on the Eastern Front in 1943

Hello to all of you! I'm a new member and this is my first article for you, hope you enjoy it! 🙂 This is my latest diorama - I've finnished it a few weeks ago. It shows the famous "Kohlenklau" (coal thief) of Unteroffizier [...]

Calais Marck Late afternoon 15 August 1940

My last post showed images of the Airfix 1:48 Scale Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4/B that I'd finished at the end of 2018. This was modelled along the lines of Yellow 3 in which Leutnant Horst Marx was shot down near Tunbridge Wells in the early [...]

Final resting place

Time for something COMPLETELY different. Felt like having a bit of a play with something I've always been fasinated by; sunken tank graveyards. Here I've attempted to show a 1/35th Japanese Type 97 medium tank sunken in shallow water off a [...]

04/04/04 The siege of Sadr City

The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday"– with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. On [...]

Battle of Villers Bocage

The British 22nd Armoured Brigade group reached Villers-Bocage without serious incident on the morning of 13 June 1944. The leading elements advanced eastwards from the town on the Caen road to Point 213, where they were ambushed by Tiger [...]

Comrades!

Hi All and an early Happy New Year. My last post for 2018, ending a very productive modeling year, highlighted by becoming an iModeler, being honored with iModeler June Model of the Month and meeting up with fellow member Tom Bebout at the [...]

Vignettes on the subject- Car + aircraft.

Hello! Today I want to present three works at once, united by one theme. Namely - towing (or transportation) of the aircraft by car. The fact is that several machines in the 43rd scale fell into my hands, and I had to do something with [...]