Here is another Horse Drawn Vehicle that I have made, it’s a 1/12th scale Bakers Waggonette.
It took me just over 6 months of 'graft' to get it finished, sometimes life just gets in the way of a decent hobby, eh.
The original full sized [...]
Here is a bit of history on the Panigale, taken from totalmotorcycle.com
With the 1299 Panigale R Final Edition, Ducati pays tribute to the twin-cylinder engine that has made Superbike World Championship history. From Marco Lucchinelli’s [...]
Here is a 1/12th scale Napoleonic Cannon, made from the drawings of Barrie Voisey and sold under licence by John Thompson.
Started with the wheels, made all the ‘fellies’ as cake slices and glued them together, then I made the [...]
So, this is where I'm at currently with the oil self-portrait from my most recent post.
Here is a 1/8th scale “Exercising Cart", or, you can use its popular name that it goes by today, a ’Spider’, for very obvious reasons.
The full sized vehicle was owned by Mrs Val Perkins, from a small town called Coonewarre, [...]
Another Scratchbuilt 1/12th scale model, this time it's a South African Trolley, the drawing was published in "The Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, June 1904. Not to sure how this vehicle ended up in an Australian publication, but it is [...]
Here is a 1/12th scale model of a Light Business Waggon made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and Son, printed in The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Oct 1906.
Found the picture of an old truck body on the web and thought that it [...]
In the immortal words of Monty Python, “ . . . and now for something completely different . . . ‘
As I was painting miniatures, with oil portraits as my reference, I began to wonder how painting in 2 dimensions was different from [...]
Made from working drawings of J.E.Bishop, published in “The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, July 1908”.
Saw a picture of a similar vehicle on the back cover of a book called ‘Tim Downers Legacy’ and reckoned it looked [...]
Here is a 12th scale model of a Shand Mason Horse Drawn Water Pumper Fire Engine.
Totally SCRATCHBUILT, there are a few store bought nuts or bolts, but made most of the 12BA nuts and bolts myself.
Got sick and tired of listening to [...]