All of my commissions are special. Each one takes a little piece of my personality with it and hopefully they are special to my clients and friends who now enjoy having them in their home, study or office. Then there are the once in a lifetime builds, the ones that are so special, so important …
"THIS IS THE WAY" If you are anything like me then you love the wonderful hobby of scale modelling, if you're a lot like me then you love Star Wars as well! So when I came across this 3D print garage kit of The Mandalorian and Grogu, I just had to get it! The kit …
As regular readers will already know, my favourite aircraft of all time is the Supermarine Spitfire. I have built many models of the legendary fighter over the years but one variant has eluded me-The PR Mk.XI. Until now that is! Due to no manufacturer producing any Spitfire PR Mk.XI's in 1/48 or 1/32 scale one …
I love F-14 Tomcat's! Who doesn't right? Way back when I was just beginning in the hobby of model building I was presented with a book about modelling post war modern aircraft. On the cover was an inspiring build of a 1/72 F-14A bearing the famous bright red VF-1 Wolfpack livery. Having this book on …
The Hawker Sea Hurricane is one of those aircraft that has been relatively unloved by the aircraft enthusiast masses and scale modellers alike. Sure, there have been kits released in 1/48 scale in the last couple of decades from Italeri and Airfix and they sold pretty well-but how often do we see one finished? And …
Have you ever seen a kit from your past and felt regret that you didn’t do a good job? Well, that’s what happened to me one day when I was surfing the web doing research on Tiger tanks and I saw a fantastic build of Tamiya’s 1/35 Tiger I AFRIKA. The whole look of the …
One of my favourite modern war films is The Hurt Locker starring Jeremy Renner as a rowdy US Army EOD Sergeant who is deployed to a unit who have lost there team leader. The film at the time came in for a lot of criticism from American soldiers because they felt the film was not …
Those of us who remember the terrible day of 9/11/01 will always remember where we were and who we were with. It was an event that changed our world and twenty years later I want to pay tribute to those we lost, those who served and of course those who still endure. New York 1th …
Continue reading 9/11/01 – 9/11/21 Twenty years anniversary tribute build.
In World War II the North American P-51 Mustang distinguished itself with its superb fighting power and air superiority over the skies of Europe and later the Pacific. The P-51D being the most famous mark which is loved by veterans and aircraft enthusiasts the world over. After WWII came the conflict in Korea and the …
Just as the A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 “Paper Tiger II” was being shot off the deck of the USS MIDWAY, a 1MC message came from the bridge, ‘What the hell was on 572’s right wing?’ Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction........... According to Squadron Historian Holt Livesay, on 4 November on the last mission of the …
THE SCALE MODEL HANGAR 