Category: Miniature photography
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Airfix Mosquito – Part Four – Thank You, Mike Grant
Mike Grant had been a pioneer where I wished to go and I was fortunate to discover an magazine article he wrote – sponsored by Airfix – that dealt with exactly the aircraft I was working on. The story was illustrated with a lot of good coloured photos and Mike had gone into the scale…
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Well, I’ll Be Darned, Eh…?
I’m so pleased that the photographs I took in my studio of Bill Duncanson’s Bentley motor car model have made it to the cover of the premier Australian modelling magazine; Modelart Australia, Issue 110. I feel it to be a real, if unacknowledged, achievement for my studio. Of course the graphic artist on the magazine’s…
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Good Morning Walter – Part 12 – Watch The Birdie…
You’re lucky, Walter. You’re young, with good eyes, and small and healthy and can bend down without any of your joints hurting. Us old guys are not so fortunate. When we lean over a lot, it sometimes takes two other people to unfold us. I mention this because I’ve been photographing the scale models in…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Ten – The Doll Houses
Walter, there are more things under Heaven and Earth than we suspect, and it is a great joy when we come across something new. I found this so for my Little World when I discovered the doll house societies. There are a number of them here in the Perth metropolitan area, and I would be…
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Boeing Fortress Mk. III – Part Ten – All Right For Ops
It all came good – as much due to the precision of the Airfix company as to my own skill. The Birthday Boeing is complete and ready to go into the museum. I’ve indulged myself a little with the Nik Collection software in this final report- they do a plug-in for Photoshop that converts regular…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Ten – Break Out The Spray Gun, Lars.
I’m feeling sentimental… You cannot laugh at the Finnish Air Force. If you do they swoop down on you and open up with cannons and rockets. The Finns have very little sense of humour. This is not surprising. They live in between two heavily-armed neighbours – the Swedes and the Russians – and in their…
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The Annual Gluefest Finished Cheerfully
And not a sticky fingerprint on any of the plastic parts. At least not on the competition entries. It was my first little venture into showing a plastic model and I played it safe – I just put it into the general club display on the table and didn’t ask for any judgement. There may…
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North American AT6 – Part One – The Kosher Texan
We often buy a set of decals to match a kit we have – but in this case I have reversed the procedure. I had a leftover set of Israeli Air Force markings for an Academy kit and I purchased a Hobby Boss substitute to use them up. The original Texan became an RCAF Harvard…
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To Whom Do You Advertise…
When you are not advertising for profit? My question precisely as I added my mite to the scale model table at the WASMEX show a week ago. The basic formula for the scale model club I joined was to set out a series of large tables with green cloth covering and place whatever the members…
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Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part Five – The Light ‘O The Sun
Remember when I said I got it wrong with my tabletop picture – by using more than one light source? Well, so I did, but that is not completely accurate. I got it wrong by using two equal light sources. I was that close to the proper thing, if only I had realised it. Go outside. Look…
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