The established wisdom among modellers is that when weathering you can only apply an oil paint dot filter on an acrylic painted surface. On...

When something is just working right , it can be hard to pull yourself away from building. Last night I did some (I have to admit) absolute...

Many years ago, back in 2005, I visited the battlefields of the Western Front in Belgium and northern France. The fields and bleak weather ...

Great news for my Australian community - Metro Hobbies has agreed to join The MOD Squad program for a limited time! From tonight until midn...

I've undertaken a new challenge: remote control. I've not played around with this since the late 1980s. I don't have the fainte...

I feel I passed a rather large milestone this evening. I finally hand painted on the seahorse insignia onto the hull of The Seahorse . I ...

Back in December 2016 I produced a video demonstrating the hairspray technique for chipping paint on scale models. That was fine for then, ...

I'm not going to reveal too much - all in good time my friends! But here are a couple of shots showing how the painting of The Seahorse...

Wow, we're up to Part 7 - this is a long term project! In this video I finally, finally get some paint on the hull of The Seahorse. It...

The postie delivered a very welcome (and very large) package from Japan yesterday. It's a Tamiya Sand Scorcher remote control 19...