Category: Figure modelling
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Yakovlev 6 – Part Two – The Amphibious Twins
Pavel and Sergei – the crew of the Encore Models Yak 6. I recognised them – they used to work for FROG in the 60’s, and flew nearly everything that company produced. It was hard work – the long hours wore them down so much that their faces fell off. I suspect that the two…
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The Big Local Model Show And The Big Local Model Shows
Actually there are about four Big Local Model Shows during a year…some of them at the same venue as next year’s April/May affair for scale models. The business might be a bit confusing if it were not for the fact that Perth enthusiasts of the various hobbies generally have the things sorted in their minds.…
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Bristol Bulldog – Part Two – Well, They Don’t Fly Themselves, Eh?
I’ll amend that. The drones do…sort of. But in the case of the Bristol Bulldog, it needs a human pilot to defend the realm. Airfix have been good to us for a long time – nearly all of their kits have contained at least one crew member to steer the ship and/or make the sandwiches.…
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Summer And Winter
An opportunity has arisen to make a summer/winter layout – a diorama of a little Soviet airfield in both seasons. It’s to be spread over two bases and is coming together rather nicely. The bases are identical, but the portions of the field featured are different – and in both cases they are general enough…
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Heinkel He 111 – Part Six – The Irresistible Shot
If you go to any book on the Battle of Britain or any Google site that deals with the Heinkel bombers you will eventually see a shot of the crew inside the glass-nosed cockpit. It will have been taken from the bomb-aimer’s position looking backward at the pilot’s seats and will likely have been shot…
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US Army Ambulance – Part One – A Wander Down The Armour Aisle
I rarely wander down the armour aisle at my local hobby shop – the offerings in my scale are all big hulking things that bear no relationship to my modest airfields and everything else seems to be 1:35 scale. I am envious of all the accessories that the AFV builder can draw upon for the…
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If All Your Pigs Are Dark Green…
Suppose you are a person who makes scale models of pigs…in the internationally standard scale of 1:26.8. And suppose you are a stickler for accuracy; you subscribe to International Pig Modeller Monthly, you regularly submit your models for scrutiny on the Masochistic Modellers Forum, and you have won Pig Modeller Of The Year at the…
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The Little People
No, not leprechauns. Or dwarves or midgets or any other arbitrary divisions of the human race. I mean model figures that accompany our scale models. The denizens of the Little World. By rights they should be the ones we make the dioramas for, instead of with. They are the rightful owners of the scale. The casual…
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RCAF Avro Lancaster – Part Three – It All Starts With Bits
I try to be thrilled with all parts of the kit building I do – from the shopping and acquisition through to the plans, cutting and fitting, painting , and final assembly. But it must be said that there are times when the stages are very small and you don’t seem to progress. The initial…
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Good Morning, Staff.
Good morning. You may be wondering why I have called you here today. The first thing was to trial the ability of Photoshop to make focus stacking images automatically – a task which it has performed admirably. There are a few errors in the image taken of you but they can be largely overlooked. The…
The Little World 