Tips and solutions to improve your modelling techniques.
Decals-especially stencils. Long black walk/don't walk lines which break into a million pieces. Roundels which fall apart if you look at them funny.
The floor where I spend 1/3 of my precious hobby time crawling about cursing because [...]
This video is a brief description of how to make eyebolts and padeyes for scale models.
In this video, I'm going to be showing you a weird trick I recently learned about using Tamiya cement on your decals to help them better adhere to the surface.
A huge thanks and shout out to "On the Bench" podcast, for showing [...]
This video is dedicated to: Jeremy Howison-Haworth. Who supplied this kit, in the attempt that it would get me back into Japanese aircraft (It did by the way)
This was a project I'd been planning since last summer, and I finally got things [...]
I am building the AFV Club U-2A, which has very prominent wingwalk stripes on the wings. I have Cutting Edge decals that include wingwalk stripes, so, after painting and glossing, the wingwalk stripes were applied. First, I noticed that [...]
Typically I weather my models using artist pastel chalk. With the chalk you can vary the depth of your weathering. For jet exhaust I used black, brown, light gray, and a touch of blue. Using multiple colors gives a nice blended look. The [...]
So to take up from where I left off in my previous article...( (link) )
Now having a lovely flying aircraft, I needed a stand, but I couldn’t bring myself to drill holes in the lovely underside detail to accommodate the tab of the stand [...]
Hi Guys,
Here are a few pics to demonstrate my simple photo studio. I took these pics inside an Ikea Fabrikor display cabinet, fairly cheap and spacious. It is also quite well sealed against dust when I use it just to hold my models and [...]
