scratch-built models and the art of scratchbuilding
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Scratchbuilt 1/8th scale Spyder/Exercising Sulky
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, [...]
Scratchbuilt 1/12th scale South African Trolly
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 [...]
12th scale Light Business Waggon
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 [...]
Nine Pound British Smooth Bore Field Cannon
Here’s a Cannon, this is meant to be a British 9lb Smooth Bore Cannon.
Saw the drawing for this little Cannon in the Model Engineer ( English publication ) can’t remember the date it was printed, but it was about 30 yrs odd ago, or [...]
Bombardier Iltis-Scratch Built
The Iltis jeep, officially known as the Volkswagen Type 183 Iltis, is a military vehicle built by Volkswagen for use by the German military and under license by Bombardier for the Canadian Forces and Belgian Army. This vehicle was [...]
APOLLO LEM LANDER
This is my newest model. LEM lunar lander. Built from scratch. Wood. Mainly pine.
1:25 John Deere 4020 – 3D Scratch Built
The legendary 4020 was born in 1963 and it’s safe to say a love affair began with many farmers that burns as hot today as it did when they first saw black smoke roll out of the muffler. The 4020 was, and still is, one of those [...]
MkIV MALE 1917
This is the MkIV Male. The mark four had definitely significant improvements from the Mark one. Some of the main improvements were the improved armour and the re sitting of the fuel tank. A total of over 1200 mark four tanks were built [...]
Messerschmitt BF109E
This is the newest scratch built model completed. The BF109E. Mainly built from spruce. The BF109 what are the most monolithic fighter aircraft of the Second World War. Built by the Germans, the E model had well over 2000 built from 1939 [...]
1:8 Excelsior-Henderson Super X – 3D Scratch Built
About a year ago I had an idea to scratch build an Excelsior-Henderson Super X. Reason being—a model of one doesn’t exist and I worked at E-H in the late 90s and have always wanted to own one. While the real bikes are out there and not [...]
