Return from Dunkirk A diorama and figure conversion combo by Peter Gillson The Navy helping the Army return There are times when figures just cry out to be built, but not necessarily as the figure designer envisaged, or even as I first envisaged. This is just such a situation. One of my favourite areas of […]
Scratch Building
ZEPPELIN R. J. C. Russell describes the theory behind and the construction of his fascinating working scale model ZEPPELIN The author at work on the nose section of his scale flying model Zeppelin. A partially completed tail section is just visible on the left and the bracing method of the frames can clearly be seen. […]
Missing Resting in Action Peace? By Dilip Sarkar MBE A veiw of the completed project. ABOVE: Lieutenant Geert Jonker, Commanding Officer of the Royal Netherlands Army Recovery & Identification Unit, and Dilip Sarkar at the Soesterberg laboratory in May 2016. The colossal cost During the First World War, some 38 million human beings lost their […]
The Churchill Carpet-Layer in 1:76 scaleby Geoffrey W. Futter IN THE spring of 1944, during the planning of the projected assault by the Allied Forces on the Normandy beaches, which took place on the 6th June of that year, it was found by reconnaissance that patches of soft clay existed on parts of the beaches […]