Representing reality in miniature.
Hey there fellow iModelers,
Here's another "moldy-oldy" from my shelf. This little scene depicts my cousin, Doug and I, out doing one of our favorite activities, visiting the museums. This fictitious museum was built around the [...]
I think most people on iModeler will know of the story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler.
On the return journey home from a bombing raid on Germany in December 1943, 20 year old pilot Charlie Brown nursed his critically injured B-17 [...]
This was another reason why I need to stop looking at Aliexpress and eBay.
I go for a browse, see something I wasn't looking for, and this is what happens. I spotted a kit that consisted a child with a wooden gun and snowman and then the [...]
Good morning to all ,
First and foremost this post is dedicated to the terrible tragedy that happened 17 years ago (11th September 2001) which saw one of the world's iconic towers collapsed to the ground. Ever since that day I was [...]
A bird you can really love? How about a pre-owned, Revell, T-6 Texan? Yes, the T-6, that great North American product that trained thousands of budding young aviators so they could fly to a glorious doom.
This beautiful aircraft needs a [...]
An area of WW2 modeling I havent done before is French. Always been keen to do some of their tanks as they are always a bit clunky / unusual looking. This Somua was actuually really fun to build and has quite a cool look about it once [...]
This was the largest diorama I created at the time last winter (something larger is in the works), plus I thought it fitting my largest dio for the smallest badass in the galaxy and again a ton of firsts for me. This is actually sitting on [...]
This build had taken me some time to put together. The base is a pic frame mount with poster board foam as ground base. The electronic ground concrete ground mounts and fence concrete rectangular blocks were both plaster cast and poster [...]
So you've built a 1/48 hangar, but the aircraft for the diorama are slow going. What does one do with an ongoing diorama project taking up a corner of the basement? Make it into a backdrop for photo shoots.
Mr. Terry Davis gave me some [...]
The short story for this diorama; is these two bike repair owners, are trying their luck at re-opening their place of business, after the take down of the Libyan leader.
