Here’s the second and final installment carrying on from where we were last month. ( If you need to review go HERE ) The kit was built and taken to my local IPMS meeting for my peers to have a peek. There I learnt some of what the shortcomings are in the Hasegawa kit and…
1/48 isn’t my usual scale for modern jet aircraft, but it is for many of my modelling compadres. To this end a collegue of mine involved at the retail end of scale modelling recently returned from the Toy fair in Nuremberg with an advance copy of the new Kinetic F-18 Hornet offering and requested I…
Last year I built a Bf109 racer based very closely on another modeller’s work which he called “Creeping Death”. This was pretty much as a dare and I believe I carried it off ! I went two steps further and used up a couple of surplus 1/48 Spitfire fuselages (nothing is wasted !!) to fashion some…
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…
Presenting the piloted Jindivik ! Years ago I made a 1/72 kit of this diminutive aircraft having seen the aircraft in the flesh every second weekend when I performed the role of host officer down at RAAF WIlliams Museum. You can see history here and here of the real aircraft . Following on from the…
Years ago I chanced upon an article in the September 1967 issue of “Aircraft” on the CA-31 Supersonic trainer. I looked at this diminutive aircraft and was immediately struck with the same intrigue mixed with sorrow I feel when I thumb through “Project Cancelled”, the wonderful book by Derek Woods (ISBN 1 85488 026 8—put it…
**UPDATE 21Jun16** I’ve updated this entry yet again to say that the M113AS4 in 1/72 & 1/56 is not available at this time and MAY become available when I redo the moulds. Thanks to all who have enquired or indeed purchased but the run is over for now. I have many other projects that…
Welcome to the first entry in Uncle Les’s new web presence. On this page I will progressively upload images of my work, make data available including helpful files for the construction of my kits and of course, provide a means by which you can purchase available kits and finished models. I’m currently producing 1/72…
