One of the projects on my bench at the moment is a little vignette of Denny Hulme giving his team mate (and boss) Jack Brabham a lift back to the pits after the latters car broke down – an “F1 Taxi” if you will. Continue reading “Projects on my bench – afraid this one rambles on…& on.. (updated Oct 31st) – Oh how scary!”
The dangers of miniature figure painting are hugely underrated; there I was drawing the brush along the figure concentrating hard on keeping a straight line and then, the brush slipped, and I felt the most awful shooting pain right up my arm into my neck and resulting in what the doctors say is the first recorded case of “Painters whiplash”!! – doh – joke, joke,!! Continue reading “Severe case of “Painters whiplash” – but I’m on the mend!!”
I was fortunate to be able to attend the launch of a wonderful aviation book recently held at Casement aerodrome near Dublin. The book is entitled “Fouga Magister an Irish Perspective”. Continue reading “Fouga Magister – an Irish perspective”
Detail all the way is the order of the day with this beautiful diecast from CMC made from over 1,100 separate parts. Continue reading “Maserati Birdcage 1:18 scale premium diecast by CMC – absolutely stunning detail!”
In July 1982 I had my first “Up-close” experience of a real Formula 1 race when I attended the British Grand Prix with my two younger brothers. Continue reading “British Grand Prix – Brands Hatch July 1982”
I eventually finished the Alsonso Arai helmet from his time with McLaren in 2007. Continue reading “Fernando Alonso – 1/8 scale Arai Helmet – McLaren 2007”
In my humble opinion this is one of the most iconic race cars from the 1960’s. Driven by Jim Clark to victory in the Indianapolis 500 it was a total “Game Changer” in terms of race car design as it was the first rear engined car to win at the Brickyard and thereby sealing the doom of the front engined roadsters – no front engined car would ever win the 500 Indy again. Continue reading “Lotus 38 Car #82 – Indy’ 500 Winner 1965 – Jim Clark”
I’m in the process of trying to reorganise my studio at the moment as I need more bench space to accommodate all of the different projects which I have in various stages of partial completion. Continue reading “Running out of space in my “Modelling Farm” – so it’s time for a change!”
Some more shots of those Ferrari mechanics being watched over by Enzo himself. This time I’ve posed the figures with the Exoto 1/43rd scale diecast transporter. Continue reading “Preparing the Prancing horse – (part II)”
I just took a couple of quick shots on the bench of these Ferrari mechanics I painted up recently – (a mixture of Trackpass and Scalelink figures in metal). Continue reading “Preparing the “Prancing horse”!”
