scratch-built models and the art of scratchbuilding
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Gotha WD-13 Seaplane 1/16 Scratchbuilt…
Hi, I'm back 🙂 I was away for a long time because of this baby nearly for a year. On January (last year) my friend asked about 1/16 scratchbuilt this sea plane for his collection. I tried to explain to him that not much information [...]
Scratch built (wood) F-100 in 1/32-scale
This Super Sabre was built as a commission for a client in Australia. It is covered with various types of aluminum skin as per the the real aircraft. It was built well before the currently plastic offering was released. It features a full [...]
Battle of Midway A Monster Diorama Project.
I can't take credit for the project but I did do the detail work, (kit construction and modifications), and helped with some of the engineering, as it applied to my kits.
The diorama is at the Pacific Air Museum at Pearl Harbor. It has [...]
The Micky-Dink, 1929
The economic crisis following the end of WW1 had many railroads looking for an alternative to empty passenger trains running on branch lines. The rise of automobiles combined with improved roads and highways cut deep into passenger traffic [...]
Scallop Trawler WILLIAM C BAKER, 1962
A type of boat found in every New England fishing port, the WILLIAM C BAKER was typical of wooden commercial draggers of the era. Referred to as an "Eastern Rig" (East coast design) or "Side Trawler", this class of [...]
Waco (Glider series)
Hi to all of you
Another series have just done by my father.
We have to thanks to Luis Cid who made the special decals to complete our Waco CG-4A / Hadrian series which include the following models
Here are the final photos which also [...]
Wooden concept models of proposed Orbiter carriers
I was contacted and asked to restore two wooden concept models, I was told, that the models were made by Jack Conroy, the designer of the “Guppy”. Both of the models are very skillfully made and show the real talent and skill of the [...]
D-Day Plus 4
At the personal direction of President Roosevelt, 60 Coast Guard sub chasers were transfered from America's East coast to Poole England. Here the boats were stripped of part of their ASW gear and re-formed into Rescue Flotilla One. It's [...]
It ain't plastic but it is scale....Maurice Farman...
From my Brother Keith in Tuscon Arizona comes this creation. It flys! It's R/C if you look careful you will see the real engine under the water-cooled one. Wingnut Wings-Bah Humbug! Don't know the scale but I'm sure it's big.
Nantucket Lightship (WLV-613) On Station, 1975
"The two loneliest things I ever saw" mused an old whaling captain "was a polar bear on an ice floe and the second thing was the Nantucket Lightship".
Lightships were the technological answer to building a lighthouse [...]
