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“LITHUANICA” made from plywood, scale 1/24
For your evaluation guys….
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‘What if’ Soviet Mech Diorama!
The first diorama I built after getting back into the hobby. The mech is scratchbuilt and my first attempt at doing so. The Bf 109 is a kit which I built when I was very young so I restored the aircraft but in a crashed, "shot [...]
Pilatus PC 21, 1/32 Scale Scratch Build, Part 13
A few decals and some of the control surfaces, off to the DRC for 2 weeks, then I will complete the build.
Pilatus PC 21, 1/32 Scale Scratch Build, Part 12
Well its great to be in the saddle again, and getting some building done. The last post I had was in May and I think you guys probably thought that I had disappeared of the face of the Earth, well I did for a while, I have been working out [...]
An F 14, but not as you know it, Jim………
During the last few months of 2017, I’d enviously followed the posts that Marc Barris presented, describing the various scratch-built, vacform models he makes in 1/32 scale. Blessed with detailed plans of the full-size models and with [...]
Bingal in a bingle.
Boat constructed for the Wardell Bridge Diorama. Kit scale 1:50 utilized for 1:72 scale diorama. In the diorama, the boat will traverse back and forth, in a straight line, under the bridge. To eliminate the appearance of a reversing boat, [...]
Mustang madness
Greetings fellow modellers.
i would like to present my embodiment of Walter Kim`s concept, done through kit bashing, scratch building and 3D printing.
some WIP pics:
Flinstone Stool
It's not a model, but I used all the same skills - why not? Scratch built for sure. Using my sculpting abilities I was able to somehow produce this baby for a $7 stool and foam. No reason why. It got me 1st in Sculpture category Nat'l Vets [...]
ICM Krupp L3H163 Kfz. 72 Radio Truck in 1:35 (#35462), Work in Progress
Radio communication was not new when WWII broke out but the Germans made it an integral part of their military doctrine. ICM released this marvel of a kit in 2012 so given my historical interests I decided to build it in honor of those [...]
A little bigger scale…
Hello my friends,
Today I want to present you my scratch build model kit of Yugoslav's Soko "G-4MD Galeb". I had thoughts do I want to show this project as clasic model kit, and that thoughts i shared with my best friend. One day [...]