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Don't know how many of you are watching For All Mankind tv series?

In season 3 the show features a nuclear powered shuttle, the Pathfinder, launched from the back of a C-5 Galaxy instead of a 747. I can modify an Academy shuttle to the Pathfinder design but was looking for a...

And to finish baiting you for the next Scale ModelWorld, here are some images of the 2022 competition at scales other than 1/144.
To begin, I can't resist showing a few more photos of the Dambusters' Lancaster at 1/32 (or 1/48, I don't know) during the Upkeep bomb tests.
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A little more fun to prepare for Telford (or compensate for not being able to go there....).
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For all those who cannot go to Telford in 2023, and for those who plan to go there, some photos of SMW 2022 at scales other than 1/144, for the former, so as not to be too disappointed and for the latter, to prepare themselves psychologically.....
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OK very off topic and off scale. I don't know how many of you remember the German Coastal Defence Battery play set. It was reissued briefly a few years back.

Has a very Guns of Navarone vibe to it. The main guns were working toys with spring firing mechanisms but it did...

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I dont know how many of you are watching the TV series For All Mankind ? I have recently bought seasons 1 and 2 on DVD and so far, with some exceptions, am enjoying it.

If you are not familiar with it, it is an alternate history where Russia beat the US to the first manned...

Following the discussion on the older completed models we still have on display I had been considering once again stripping down and repainting my old Aurora Seaview kit,. That one represents the movie version with the 8 panel nose window/observation deck.

Anyway I just got...

The Plastic and Steel 2023 took place on September 16th and 17th, 2023, this time in the Waregem Expo.

Friday:
For me it started very early on Friday morning because, as always when I'm in the region, I wanted to include my other hobby.

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So arrived at...

This is my last project in 3D - italian military truck in 1/72 scale. Whole thing was very interesting and I enjoy it from starting the drawing. It was stamped by a guy in Croatia and he did an excellent job.
I added some small things as the and motor cover in the cabin. Some...

Yesterday, looking for decals for one of my models, I googled Old Ironsides armored Division .
Between several images i saw this
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now this just happens to be the livery (and weathering) one of my tanks is being finished in.
I was hooked and only the high shipping and...

Taken months and months to do but calling it quits.

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Hope all is well...

Ian

As several of you may know, I started a run of several variants of the Fw 190 and Ta 152 family last December. It isn't continuous since there are interruptions with builds of other types in between (in other words, that get in the way :lol: ).

Anyhow, since unfortunately,...

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So in my never ending quest to fix and repair down trodden and incomplete 21st Century 1/18th scale aircraft toy / models, I started to look around my workspace for my next project. Not that I don't already have enough half finished projects! At the beginning of...

If there's one thing I learned over the years, it's that Hasegawa's 1/72 Harrier kits are just magical. I've built their FRS.1, the Gr.3, and the AV-8B. I discovered I still had an AV-8B II Plus, so months ago, I drug it out and started working on it. I diligently ran a micro...

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I have a few aircraft in this range/scale, and I'm wondering amongst my modelers and 3D printing gurus, do little tiny missiles and bombs exist in this scale? Many of the aircraft come clean, and a pylon would be easy enough to cut from plastic, but I'm not sure...

It's rare that I look for something on Shapeways, can't find it in the scale I want, message someone who makes it in a different scale, and they come through! Last night, I'm happy to say that happened.

Lately I've been looking around for a suitable model of the Spanish...

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Thought it'd be fun to take you through the process of me trying to repair, replace, and repaint these two behemoth toy models. NOTE: I am not really performing any major surgery or modification on these two, as I'm now a bit pressed for time to get them done for an...

Okay, it's not quite model making, even if in principle it's not far off...
Tatsuya Tanaka is a designer-photographer who came to miniature art to create a scene with everyday objects.
Since April 2011, he has launched the website Miniature Calendar and publishes a new creation...

There was some discussion on these 4D models of various aircraft types a while back. Recently found that they are doing 1/72 AFV and picked up a couple of these Cougar MRAPS for about £10.00 each. They arrived today and are pretty good. I am not sure they are 1/72 as I have very...

well this is an old dio that I made after founding this photo

Short story that you can find here

ends in this photo, taken first days of may 1945 in today's Piazza Garibaldi at Trieste. Tank was captured just a few days before by yugoslav partisans and, painted the yugo...

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