Category: Miniature photography
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A Happy Landing At RAAF Cunoath Downs
The ship is down safely – sitting in its own box all complete – ready for transfer to the WWII forward base at RAAF Cunoath Downs. It’s a secret airfield in the middle of the Western Australian bush. Secret only in the sense that no-one goes past it on the road because it’s too far…
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Get Down!
Relax – it’s not the dog on the table again. This post is about getting down to your models when you are trying to photograph them. The first photograph I ever took of a scale model was of a Revell 105mm howitzer in about 1:40 scale. I’d saved up for it, sent away to a…
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Leave Us Not
Leave us not get the impression that The Little World is only airplanes – it is far more, as the ever-growing storage racks at my studio will attest. There are cars, trains, planes, houses, shops, caravans, and dinosaurs. Also stage sets, movie studios, horses, porcelain dogs, and a resident gecko that lays eggs. The heading…
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All Aboard!
The business of scale model photography needs only a few basic components; light, a camera, and a scale model. Everything else is just commentary. But what commentary…As you’ll observe in the heading image, there are models sourced from eight different makers or genres. There are three different scales seen – and three layers of image…
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