Hope you're all having a wonderful festive season

Christmas pudding with custard and a cup of tea from my Tamiya mug. It doesn't get much better.

I hope you're all having a wonderful break, with lots of modelling time. I'm going to take a rare week or two off releasing videos, I'm taking a family holiday to the beach for a few weeks, and doing the whole Australian Summer thing.

Back in 2019!

Cheers,

Dave

Special Christmas video for 2018 - making a 1/35 scale gingerbread house

A few weeks back my daughter came home with a festive gingerbread house kit for Christmas. "Excellent", thinks I, "this will be fun. And it's for kids, so it should be easy." In hindsight: Bwahahahahahhahaha!

Source.

Thanks to all of you who have come with me on the ride this year. For me, it's been fun, it's been sometimes hair-raising, and it's always been immensely satisfying building and sharing my work with you all year.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, outstanding Festivus, and all that jazz!

Video is embedded below, but in case that doesn't work here is the link:
Making a scale model Christmas gingerbread house

Cheers,

Dave

New video: My fails, bloopers and stuff-ups of 2018

It's getting near the end of the year, so I thought I'd share with you the multitude of fails, stuff-ups and bloopers while I was filming in 2018.

A warning: it's chock full of explicit language, so if that offends you probably best to step away from the screen now...

Video is embedded below, but in case that doesn't work here is the link:
Scale model video fails, bloopers and stuff-ups for 2018

Cheers,

Dave

New video: How to add a blue tone to Panzer grey

I've been busy working more on my Tamiya Krupp Protze - this week I've been trying to fix a problem in the paint on some side boards, and I've also been playing around with adding a blue tint to the German Grey colour.

In this video there are some wins, and some losses.

But I did work out a new way to add a blueish tone. It's not revolutionary, it's really just a tweaked half filter / half dot filter technique (I've covered these in a previous video). But it's definitely something I hadn't previously done, and it's rather satisfying!

Video is embedded below, but in case that doesn't work here is the link:
How to add blue tone to Panzer Grey

Cheers,

Dave

The winner of our SprayGunner competition is...

Congratulations Larry Mavrinac!

I'll get your SprayGunner giveaway package in the post to you this week.

A big thank you to everyone who entered. There will be more giveaways soon, I promise.

Cheers,

Dave