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Sturm IV
King Tiger
Harley Davidson
Tiger I
Peterbilt truck
Corvair trike
Dragonfire trike
Starfury
'57 Chevy
Cormorant
oil rig
Venator Star
destroyer
Klingon
cruiser
1/8th dragster
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. 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' in the U.K.. 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 Telford in November & any 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 the "to do pile" some car kits
& a couple of 1/32 aircraft.
On the
Sci-Fi front I have the Pro Shop X-wing, 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 will be designing
the circuits, even before & get to open any of the plastic bags.
On
the ship front I picked up the 1/35 PT-596, the 1/35 Schellboot S-100
& this year the 1/350 scale H.M.S. Hood inc the upgrade set &
Eduard metal details.
In 2010 I plan to get back into kit bashing/
scratch work by making some form of sci-fi ship from old parts &
some part built kits I managed to aquire.
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
Building the 'Dragonfire'
trike.
:-
All parts now online
Building a 1/12 scale '57
Chevy
:-
All parts now online
Building
a Babylon 5
Starfury
:- All parts now online
Building a Venator Star
Destroyer
:- All parts now online
Building a Klingon K'vort
cruiser
:- All parts now online
IN PROGRESS :-
Building
the 'Corvair'
trike.
:- Parts one & two now online
Building
the 'North Cormorant' oil
rig.
:- Parts one to seven now online
Building a 1/8th
scale twin engined dragster
:- Part one now online
Heavy in on the building at present of 5 new kits so these model guides & updates coming soon...
The models I am working on are the North Cormorant oil rig, a 1/8 scale twin engine dragster, Revell's 1/8 scale '32 Ford & at last the 1/35 scale Leopold rail gun.
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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