We thought we would just drop in and show you our new range of creations that we will be adding to our web site! Dioramas!…Anything from the ESB Battle on Hoth to WWII! Like this WWII diorama.. a United States LVCP with Personnel onboard and battle effects (as if frozen in time)!
All the best,
Jo and Paul
CRAGGS Models
Welcome back to COLLECTION WARS! This was shown on March 11, 2021.
In this episode we interview Kurt Kuhn, the founder of ModelerMagic.com
Kurt has inspired sci-fi fans around the world with his amazing passion towards preserving the the art of Studio Scale Modeling. Kurt’s passion for movie models extends from Star Was, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and beyond. Kurt has dedicated the last few decades to bringing collectors, artists, and fans to his amazing website for an all inclusive experience that allows fans to reconnect with ships and models they love.
Kurt Kuhn has bee instrumental in keeping the Studio Scale art form alive through his own passion...
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This time, I am showing some pictures of 1/48 Navy fighters that I’ve finished. Both are built from Hasegawa kits; but, I used aftermarket decals and cockpit seats for each of them. The F-14D is a low-visibility scheme for VF-2 “Bounty Hunters” when the F-14 Tomcat was still in service. The F/A-18C is of a VFA-97 “Warhawks” aircraft that was painted in a special camouflage scheme. Both aircraft have been weathered to show the typical fading / touch ups that are prominent for Naval aircraft operating in salt air environments.
I created the carrier deck surface from foam-board, painted and weathered to match the deck surface colors with the red / yellow boundary markings. I used photo-etched tie-downs for detail on the carrier deck.
I supplemented the diorama using equipment from a 1/48 Kine...
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What can I state? The title states it all… except how amazing this build is by artist Warren Zoell. It is wonderful to see work once again from him as it has bee some time since the last shown.
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After a 8 year hiatus, last showing my Millennium Falcon here back in 2012, I have started model making again, this time a Revell 1/72 scale V22 Osprey.
I made some major modifications which took about 300 manhours over 15 months to complete including a detailed interior, internal and external lighting, motorized propellers and additions and changes to the exterior to more closely resemble the actual production aircraft instead of the prototype.
As a finishing touch I created a “challenge coin” out of sheet plastic to accompany the model display.
Regards,
Rod Lowe
This piece was originally shown here on Modelers Miniatures & Magic back on January 24, 2009 and now updated to today’s showing standard!
Eve of Destruction is one of the best-known of the Vietnam era gun trucks – and she is the only one that was returned intact from Vietnam after the war. The others were scrapped or converted back to standard cargo trucks if still serviceable. Eve is on display at the US Army’s Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, VA.
Eve was built on two 5-ton truck chassis, and is probably the most challenging because you can actually walk up to the truck and touch it. There are no M54 5-ton truck model kits in 1:35 (at least for the last 16 years I’ve been modeling them) scale for you to use in conversion efforts – so you’ve gotta do it yourself...
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During this LOCKDOWN we are in, I have been stuck in England,.. and I live in China, so it’s been a real challenge in painting anything since I don’t have an airbrush here,.. so I have had to use rattle cans, primer, base coat and matte varnish. All the other painting has been done with brushes and sponges, getting the effects that I wanted did take some experimentation but I’m pretty happy with the results.
The bike and sidecar is the Italeri 1/9th scale BMW, the figure is from an English company Reedees Miniatures. The BMW is not a great kit, there’s a huge amount of cleaning up to do and gaps that need careful filling but once done it’s good, with plenty of detail.
The figure on the other hand is superb, it’s not easy to find anything in 1/9th scale but this guy makes a small but excell...
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Kit Scale: 1/144
Kit Materials: Resin
Number of Pieces: 23
Shipping Amount: Calculated Upon Location
Shipping: World-Wide
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Kit Description: Soon, Fantastic Plastic Models will release a 1:144 scale model of the Northrop LAP. Designed in CAD by Scott Lowther and cast by .JPG Productions, the 23-piece kit will include both resin and 3D printed components, as well as a large decal sheet designed by JBOT and printed by Tango Papa Decals. The 1:144 Northrop LAP will sell for $80.00 plus shipping...
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The aircraft is a one of a kind model of what I believe was a secret USAF project in the late 1980’s. I am next to Wright Patterson AFB and I purchased this from a the wife of an Air Force engineer who has passed away. It came complete with multiple volumes of flight data and drawings. The internal parasite to orbit vehicle was the size of a 737. Perfect condition.
David Romano
I have two more rooms with models in them aside from what we are showing here today. The large TU 95, SR -71, and B-2 were built by modelers at Wright-Patterson AFB for early laser research. I purchased them from the spouses of Air Force Engineers who had passed away, and the models were in horrendous shape, requiring untold hours of filling, sanding, painting, and detail work. The wingspans of the B2 and TU 95 are almost 60 inches! Some are die cast, some commissioned, some built by myself, many one of a kind ( the Anaconda APC is all metal commissioned from 5 CGI internet shots. It is 32″ long). The oldest models are 40 years old. There are more to come…
Take Care,
David Romano
