Tag: Tabletop Photography
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Heinkel 51 – Part Three – A “Civil ” Heinkel

I have chosen this title as a nod to the paint scheme on this Heinkel. I am pretending it was a civilian aircraft. Anyone familiar with the history of Germany at the time this was flying – mid thirties – can draw their own conclusions about what was a civil aircraft and what was a…
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Ess Bend Engineering – Part Two – Now You Sea One

And I wish you could sea two. The Trumpeter kit for a 40′ sea container is a beauty – and as it came under the wing of an EOFY sale by Hobbytech, I seized upon it gleefully. I would have been even more delighted if it had been a pair of 20′ containers as these…
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Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part Two – The Lowdown

How tall are you? If you can smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and join the army, you are likely to be about 1.5-1.8 metres tall, with your eyes some 120 mm lower down than the top of your head. I realise there are people outside the average and I salute them, but let’s take an example…
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Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part One – The Wrong Stuff

Watchin’ all the birds roll by…dum de dum dum. Should put that to music – might make a good pop song. Standin’ on a scale model tarmac, runway, racetrack, street, or hardstand is the subject of this series of essays. If you are repulsed by mathematics, just look at the pretty pictures. The Little Studio…
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How Dare You Attempt To Entertain Me!

One of my friends has commented that the world now seems to be full of people who are determined to be offended by something. I think he may be right, though it might always have been this way – we just never had the access to social media that brought it to our attention. What…
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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…
