Making scale models is my hobby. I’ve been doing it for around sixty years. Here is some of what I’ve written about it for my local club newsletter since 2000 and updates of what I’ve been making.
The urge to paint aeroplanes Deep Sea Blue continues and this time goes to extremes with a model of a particularly interesting but flawed aeroplane, the Grumman XF10F. This was a variable geometry fighter designed for the US Navy which was worried that the new jet fighters were flying too fast to land on the … More Models for January 2021
(December 2020) It’s like this, I keep having these urges. It’s as if some strange alien entity has got into the back of my mind and keeps pushing and pushing, wanting me to do things that I don’t want to do. Dirty, crazy, unimaginable things. I think it might be an alien invasion, like the … More Confessions of an AMS Survivor
(December 2020) A Tale of two 1/72 XF5Us The year 1995 seems like several centuries ago and in one way it is. That year I finally managed to get my hands of the Hasegawa 1/72 kit of the Vought XF5U-1, probably lurking at the back of one of those old fashioned model shops that … More Please Tell Me I’m Getting Better at This
(November 2020) In November 2020 Qantas celebrates its centenary. As a tiny celebration of this remarkable event here are photos of all the models I’ve made that are associated with Qantas. This includes Qantas Empire Airways, Australia Asia, Australian, QantasLink and JetStar, and the Australian domestic airline Trans Australia Airlines that was later rebranded Australian … More A hundred years of Qantas
(May 2001) This month one of my tools has let me down so I haven’t completed a model. My compressor has finally decided that compressing air is just asking too much of it and can’t be bothered any more. It sits there going chug-chug-chug as usual, but only a little air comes out. I will attend to the … More A modeller’s life – my box of tools
We’ve let monsters into our house. Not only are they monsters of the usual kind, they are model kit eating monsters. Last year I decided that it was about time I came to grips with this new (for me) acrylic paint. Having been put off by the first generation of acrylic modelling paints back in … More A Tale of Two Kittens (and lost parts)
Handley Page to Yak For about ten years from 2000 I regularly wrote two page kit build reviews for the Modellers of Ballarat newsletter. I’ve collected them together and present them, in two parts for convenience. Handley Page Victor B2 – Matchbox 1/72 Hawker Siddeley Gnat T1 – Airfix 1/72 Heinkel He178 – Condor 1/72 … More 106 Kit Build Reviews part 2
Airbus to Grumman For about ten years from 2000 I regularly wrote two page kit build reviews for the Modellers of Ballarat newsletter. I’ve collected them together and present them, in two parts for convenience. Airbus A300B4 – Airfix 1/144 Airbus A330-200 – Revell 1/144 Airbus A330-300 – Revell 1/144 Airbus A340-200 Revell 1/144 Airbus … More 106 Kit Build Reviews part 1
