I was thinking of a complete diorama but the idea I had for it would make the diorama too big. So I opted this method, as a display mantle instead. used lots of styrene and old school cutting to get the job done.
The classified section seems to have disappeared, so...
A year or so ago, a friend on a road trip came upon a hobby shop that was closing and stopped in to see what was left. Knowing I was a plastic modeler, he bought their entire [...]
The test-retest reliability of the drinking onset variable was good, with a kappa of 0.72 (Grant et al. 1995). Arkansas has more alcohol-related deaths per capita than a majority of states and a higher rate of underage drinking. Alcohol [...]
The Tamiya family of 1/48th scale FockeWulf 190s have long been pilloried by certain elements of the modeling community as being heavily flawed, to the point where some have even stated that the kits aren't worth building. I've always [...]
Haven't posted much on this since in work photos of Tamiya's 1/32 P-51D abound on the net. I used Draw decals checkers after failing many times with masking and then trying to cut our my own. They fit quite well. Lots of Barracuda [...]
In a previous article, I mentioned to save space, cost, time, and sanity, I narrowed my collective focus to "Aviation, 1/48 scale, up to September 1945." Before that cut off decision was made, I dabbled in a lot of various [...]
This is a short story regarding an old build, found here at (link), and published first on (link) . I hope you like it.
The Airfix Pilot Dream
Once I built a model, an Airfix Spitfire MK1A 1:72. I built it following the specifications, [...]
Hi there,
This was being built in the background whilst I'm struggling with the Lysander.
Something that kind of fell together.
Some errors on my part. I forgot to put the rear view mirror in and made a bit of a mess of the tyre logos.
The [...]