This video attempts to show some of the basis of what made plastic models so popular and how it relates to the plastic models of today.
For those interested, here is a link to the history of the Airfix Spitfire BTK (link)
Hello,
after countless layers of everything modeller didnt have 15 years ago, i present you my new brainchild.
Idea came from Soviet TU-141 & 143 drones, and if you avoid making cameras, you can call it missile.
stuff used: challenger, [...]
Finally got this one finished after some stops and restarts since January 2021. I used the Accurate Miniatures SDB-3 kit for two reasons, one it's the one I had in my stash, and secondly most of the changes between the -1 and -3 were [...]
"Warning, Warning! This kit is a pain to build"
This is a copy of the Aurora LIS Robot and is made in a hard tan plastic. As a copy the parts need careful clean up and alignment. The toughest job was getting the seams taken [...]
The Airplane:
When Sydney Camm first designed what became the Typhoon in the late 1930s, not that much was known about high speed flight and heavy weaponry, with the result that the Typhoon’s wing turned out to be too thick. The result [...]
This is a 1/12 scale(not a hundred procent sure) die-cast I bought cheap at a local vendor. I added a cracked glass where the speedometer was, as it was just a piece of decal. Made a cut in the seat and added some inner material and did [...]