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Sturm IV
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Peterbuilt truck
Corvair trike
Dragonfire trike
Starfury
'57 Chevy
Welcome to the start of my model making pages. I have been making models since I was a young boy & still spending time on this hobby when I can. I used to do small 1/25 & 1/72 scales but now tend to be larger scale, so starting to take over the "workroom" & all available surfaces (apologies to my wife here for nicking her ironing board, dining table, pegs, cloths & anything else I need when making them).
I make all kinds of model includig Sci-Fi, ships, & aircraft which I try to add detail too, but my favourite type are the larger 1/12 scale car kits & large scale armour. I also am thinking of using some old kit parts & cheap kits brought at fairs to do some scratch building at some stage. As well as the usual "Tamiya" kits I also build, when I can get them the "Doyusha" 1/12 scale car range, These kits, if you haven't made one, have excellent detail, are well packaged to avoid damage to parts, & fit well with little or no "flash".
I have started to get into more airbrushing of the models & have recently got a compressor to save on the cost of 'canned air'. I want to start doing stencil work & better weathering & paint effects, so as time goes on you should see these in the models.
I visit my local model show in Crewe, which is held in late February, & try to get to other shows when work allows to see what other modellers have made, get tips & take photo's of their models for my reference.
I have got in storage the large 1/15 scale a "Hummel IV Howitzer"
from Bandai to do as well as the massive 1/35 scale "Leopold" rail gun,
as well as some car kits & a few 1/32 jet aircraft.
On the
Sci-Fi front I have the "Polar Lights" 1/350 scale NX-01 & the
NCC-1701-A Enterprise kits. These are very large & will have LED's
fitted for all the interior lighting & also working "Strobe" &
"Navigation lights". The first stage of these kits will be designing
the circuits, even before & get to open any of the plastic bags.
At the Telford show I picked up the 1/35 PT-596 & also the orininal
3 in 1 1/8 scale '32 Ford kit from Revell. Just looking inside the box
you get 2 different actual engine builds & even a striped piece of
scale seat carpet for one of the versions.
COMPLETED :-
Building the Bandai 1/15 scale Sturmgeschutz IV.:-
All parts now online
Building the Tamiya 1/16 scale King Tiger II.
:- All parts now online
Building the Newstar 1/6 scale Harley Davidson. :-
All parts now online
Building the Bandai 1/15 scale Tiger
I.
:- All parts now online
Building the Monogram 1/16 scale Peterbuilt.
:- All parts now online
IN PROGRESS :-
Building the 'Corvair' trike.
:- Parts one & two are online
Building the 'Dragonfire' trike.
:- Parts one - four now online
Building a Babylon 5 Starfury
:- Parts one - two now online
Building a 1/12 scale '57 Chevy
:- Parts one - four now online
The models I am thinking of starting next are the massive Trumpeter 1/35 "leopold" rail gun & either a one of the Polar light kits or the 1/8 Ford.
So lets finish with the "blurb" & get to the pictures. Click on the thumbnails below to get the larger pictures of my models or click on the menu links on the left for more detailed build guides.
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