Quick Modeling Tip: Sprue Makes Great Greeble!
Turn plastic sprue material into cool-looking details on your models.
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Watch a Master Modeler Build a Hyper-Detailed WWII Airplane
A scale modeler takes a plane kit from plain to impressively detailed and gorgeously painted.
Scratchbuilt: Superdetailed B-24 Liberator
Without going all the way out on a limb, I’ll borrow language from my first scratchbuilt post and suggest that polish master modeler Andrzej Ziober is producing work that is approaching “the limits a single modeler can achieve,” using conventional scale modeling techniques and technologies, in the field of 1/72 scale aircraft. He has not produced many of these models, because each of them takes about five years of work, at about five hours of work a day.
Scratchbuilt: Radio-Controlled Jagdpanzer 38(t)
This detailed post from modeling forum member Panzerpaul nicely shows off the skill and hard work that went into creating his radio-controlled replica of a WWII-era German tank destroyer commonly called a Hetzer. To house the R/C electronics and other guts, the hull has to be hollow.
Scratchbuilt: 1/87 Mack FCSW Water Truck
1/87 is essentially HO scale, which is said to be the most popular scale for model rail stock in the world. For cars and even large trucks, as you can see, it’s pretty dang small. Which is what makes the level of detail achieved by renowned truck modeler Joe Enriquez on this, and his many other models in the same scale, so remarkable.
Scratchbuilt: The “Swift” from “Space 1999”
Alex Dumas of Sci-High Models took Editor’s Choice in Starship Modeler’s 2010 Just Glue It contest with this 1/87 scale replica of the Swift, a spacecraft from the late-70s British TV series Space: 1999. Do not miss his wonderful work-in-progress shots, one of which I’ve included, below, to show off the remarkable patience and skill […]
Scratchbuilt: MV Agusta 750 S
Just one of twenty stunning scale models–most of them 1/6 motorcycles–from Spanish crasftman Pere Tarragó of Motoscala Tarragó. Sr. Tarragó takes great work-in-progress shots for his models, and this one is no exception.
