scratch-built models and the art of scratchbuilding
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Night Stalker
Here’s my latest build, kit-bashed from several kits from a variety of different scales & subjects. I started with a vague idea …a sort of crustacean-like thing, armoured on top, with an exposed, mechanical underbelly. I also [...]
Medium Logistics Vehicle Wheeled MLVW
This is the Canadian Army’s now Retired. 6 wheel drive standard medium troop transport. Complete scratch built. They were built by Bombardier in the 1980s. They are based off of the Late American M35A3 truck. This model is built from the [...]
Petlyakov Pe-2 on a scale of 1 to 32, scratchbuild
Soviet dive bomber of the World War II period. The first model with the use of aluminum sheet. The model itself is made entirely of cardboard with a slight use of 0.7 mm plastic and is glued with 0.2 mm aluminum sheet. The model was [...]
Yakovlev Yak-9P 1/32 scale, scratchbuild
The Yak-9P is a representative of Soviet aviation during the end of World War II, one of the last piston-engined fighters. From its predecessors, the Yakovlev family of aircraft differed in its all-metal design, which is why it was taken [...]
Ilyushin Il-4T 1/32 scratchbuild
Soviet torpedo bomber and long-range bomber of the Second World War.
The whole process of construction is briefly given. The main elements of the model were developed in Reno. The nose frame is soldered from 0.9 mm wire, sewn with PET [...]
Oathbringer from The Stormlight Archive
Not your typical “model”
I made this replica sword known as Oathbringer from a book series by author Brandon Sanderson. The series is called The Stormlight Archive.
To create the sword; I printed out an artist rendering of the sword [...]
SAAF Buccaneer S MK 50, 1/32 scale, Scratch Build, Finished
Hi everyone, it has been quite a while since I have posted anything on the site, work and life just got in the way, so I hope you guys have not given up on me.
Here are the final build pictures of my 32nd scale Buccaneer S Mk 50, South [...]
Building a 1:50 Scale Truck Dock
I have been working on a 1/50 scale diorama for someone. It's a truck dock that will handle about 6 trucks. Docks for 4 full fledged truck and trailer and two single trucks without their trailers. Lots of fittings with bits and pieces of [...]
Germany: Sixty years of division, 1:35 Scratchbuild
This build began about 33 years ago, yes: thirty-three years! In late November 1989 my late father told me that the second world war was finally over with the re-unification of Germany. To this date, I kept the Paris Match special on the [...]
