In the 1950’s the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation proposed many designs including this one, the XP-65 Warrior, which was to be powered by a Rolls Royce RA24R Avon engine and possibly armed with cannons and air to air missiles. A year or so ago Uncle Les made a 1/32 version based on the following drawing…
Here’s a little photo essay of something I built a while ago. It was rendered up using Rhino, Sketchup & 3D builder, then printed as various parts in ABS and constructed as a model. The canopy was vacformed from a scratchbuilt master and.. well you know the rest. This was only intended as a “proof…
Many years ago I was commissioned to build a large scale C-130H in RAAF colours ( Specifically A97-010) and only recently I rediscovered some of the old rudimentary “archival” castings I made that would enable me to build another… an idea I’m seriously toying with. With this initial model I started out with some plans, unrivelled…
Some time ago I built a model of an aircraft I had a personal connection with. Here’s the view from my instrument section window at RAAF WIlliams Laverton back in the day: Here’s a pic of me and my boys with 636 in the early ’90s. I had a very small part to play in the…
After a couple of weeks of building, a couple of months of designing and casting, a couple of years of preparation and a couple of decades saying I’m gonna do it – I finally did it ! My first exposure to the Macchi was as a cadet back in the late ’70s and here’s a…
I was once told that I won’t be able to make a 1/32 Mirage F1 from a Mirage III… ..and when it comes to scale modelling I don’t like being told what I can and can’t do ! OK.. so admittedly I needed to fabricate a few parts, like the whole rear fuselage… but it still…
Here’s some photos I took today of my latest 1/32 Winjeel build. You can see more of the construction of this model at http://uncleles.net/2016/10/07/132-winjeel/ and while I was there tending to the young eagle a falcon happened by… This coming weekend the 1/32 Winjeel A85-445 can be seen in the flesh at the Bayonet Model Club’s annual competition…
With ModelExpo all but a distant memory from last week I thought it appropriate that I put together a little page on the construction and potted history of the Nomad kits that were on display. For me it started about three decades ago when I was a strapping young Air Force type and had the odd opportunity…
After a burst of activity in between Christmas and New Year’s I can call the test examples of the CA31 in 1/32 completed. I’m happy with them being fairly good representations of the aircraft as envisioned and for those game enough I’ll make them available after I work out how much production…
Subsequent to my ramblings in my previous CA31 posting I’ve sold a fair number of 1/72 CA31 kits. As a result I’ve updated the instruction manual and have posted a PDF of what comes with the kit here – I’ll sort it all into a separate area dedicated to guides etc once I start uploading more instructional pieces. This won’t…
