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Now I started the fitting out stage of the build. Deck overlay to the fore-deck bridge, sunshade, spotlight, handrails & screens fitted. Looked a bit odd without anything under the sunshade so made some voice communication pipes which might not be correct but added a bit of interest.
Engine room ...

Zhong Shan Gunboat.
Bought this kit not for the subject but for the size & price ie:- not too big not too expensive and close to 1/144 (actual 1/150) Found a small amount of useful information and a few photos on the internet so something to work from. I also purchased after seeing the kit a wooden ...

RNLI Type B Lifeboat. Atlantic 85

Messing around in my stash I found this rigid inflatable hull, I do not know where it came from, but I thought I could make it into a RNLI Type B Lifeboat, “Atlantic 85” as it appeared to be close enough for a 1/144 model. All it meant was to scratch build the ...

The hull was mounted onto a building stand and the superstructure added after first painting the enclosed control room and adding windows. Curtains added on the crew windows to the rear of the superstructure. The rescue dummy was added to the rear superstructure
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When it came to choosing ...

Neomega Archer Class Patrol Boat.

Received my model of the Neomega Archer Class Patrol Boat at the end of November 2025 and what a nice kit it is in the box but on closer inspection noticed that some of the most obvious details were not correct. How do I know, I spent 18 months studying and ...

HMS Alliance

Fool that I am I went and bought the A Class submarine HMS Alliance as I had already made the other British submarines that are available in the series. 2 of them were very good and 2 mediocre but with work are also nice kits.

Work started by removing the printing scaffolding and ...

The latest in progress in US manned space flight

This kit looks nice and simply and it is until you get to the painting stage and it then gets really interesting. Airfix supply a set of acrylic paints and for the younger or inexperienced modeller who will buy this kit it will do the job, but if ...

Thank you “Keithley” for a great show. This is my view of a great day out. Tim somehow arranged an extra bit of space for our SIG so that all attending and wanting to show off the SIG,s building efforts to anyone attending the show was catered for. For my part I was given almost 3 whole tables which ...

HMS Storm. One of our Submarines,

As I finished the model of “Sterlet” the model of the S Class sub I had sent for turned up, so I had to continue building “unterwasserboots” and boy what a model it is. The 3D printing on it is something to behold. “Fantastic”. To get started I masked off the ...

Something fishy going on.

I seem to have the submarine bug as after building the two-3D printed British submarines I pulled the Trumpeter USS Gato out of my stash to add to my fleet. I had built the early version of this kit in 1/144 but I was not really taken by its appearance with the early ...