Merry Christmas from The Scale Model Hangar ! To all who follow, visit and join me in this wonderful hobby here, Thank you! It's been a great year for my hobby, I've made new friends, discovered new skills and I have had the opportunity to display my models to a much wider audience! I want …
Hello again! At this time of year we tend to spend a little more time at the bench during the cold winter weather and one thing I enjoy doing is building a subject that operated in a warmer climate. To this end I discovered Tamiya's 1/35 Panzerkampwagen III in desert guise with the excellent Masterbox …
Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to display some of my models at the IPMS Scale Model World 2019 show at the International Centre in Telford, England. It was an absolute blast to spend the whole weekend at the show, one of the biggest scale modelling exhibitions in the world. Attending …
Seven years. That's how long it has taken me to start, build and finish a project that has been very close to my heart. This then, is my very own build of the superb 1/32 Tamiya P-51D Mustang which my great friend Frank gave me on my 40th birthday seven years ago. A lot has …
This is my tribute to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. There are some aeroplanes that we dream about as young boys that we build models of and often know inwardly that we will probably never get close to them. One such boyhood dream for this once young man was the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The Tomcat …
"On a freezing winter morning a German tank crew wonder what this new day will bring........." There are times when an artist revisits his work and takes a bold step to improve it, purely out of instinct. I built and published a 1/35 Tiger I a couple of years ago but I was never really …
Hello again! Well here we are, another project finished and I have to say I have enjoyed this one so much! This project came about when one evening I was researching Malta Spitfire's and I happened across this photograph: This was Squadron Leader John J. Lynch of 249 Sqn. RAF after he claimed Malta's 1000th …
Continue reading Malta’s 1000th-Spitfire EP829 Ready for Inspection!
Sometimes a build is so much fun that you flat out forget to record the build and paint process. That, dear reader is exactly what has happened here! So I open with a humble apology and the optimistic hope that the end in this case will justify the means. As you will remember I was …
One of the most read articles on this website is my build of my Bf 109 K4 which I build some years ago. This 1/32 Hasegawa kit was a gift from my good friend Frank who knew that I wanted to build this particular 109 K4 as it's paint scheme and markings caught my eye …
Hello! This week has given a wonderful break from the day job and I have immersed myself in my obsession with Spitfire's! A recent visit to Flying Legend's at Duxford was spectacular! Seeing so many warbirds in one place set my heart on fire! Upon returning home my studio went into overdrive building and researching Spitfire's! …
Continue reading D-Day Victory! Johnnie Johnson’s “Beer truck” Spitfire Mk.IX
