1/32 CA31 outdoor photo shoot.
While I wait for some RTV to set I thought I’d pop up the road and take some photos of a couple of CA31s at Avalon. I’ll have some of these on display and for sale at ModelExpo next month.
28mm Modern Australian Army Group
I’m calling this order for the ADF complete ! Here I present the story in pictures of how I scratchbuilt a number of vehicle types in plastic to eventually become multiple copies in resin for use by one of our Army’s training facilities . The ASLAV-25 The ASLAV-PC & SURV The M88 Hercules The M113AS4…
28mm ASLAV and more
I received an order for a fairly large number of 28mm modern ADF AFVs a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been pretty much tied up since then fashioning up multiples of suitably sized M1A1 Abrams, M113AS4s, M88s and of course a number of ASLAV variants. The good news for those attending Little Wars is…
DHA Glider in two scales.
I was contacted by a modeller with an enquiry about a kit I produced many years ago and asked if I would re-release it. So due to popular demand ( OK – two guys so far..) I have remastered the 1/72 version of the kit and I thought why not present it here with a…
1/48 Kinetic Hornet preview build. Part 2.
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…
Kinetic 1/48 F/A-18C Hornet preproduction review. Part 1
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…
A bit of fun while I settle into the new year. Post War Racers.
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…
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA31 in 1/32 is now complete.
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…
1/72 & 1/32 scale Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA31 update
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…
GAF Pika in 1/32 scale
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…