TOTALLY SCRATCH BUILDING MY MODELS

As previously mentioned....scratch building is my passion!.........

I would say that I am from the "old school" of model making, meaning that......

1. I don't have any specialized tools.

2. I don't use any CAD programmes for designing or making parts.

3. Other than bought balsa/hard wood and plastic card...the materials I use are mainly found lying around.

THE MAIN MATERIALS I USE FOR SCRATCH BUILDING MY MODELS...SCRAP WIRE,PLASTIC AND BALSA WOOD..............

I find that I am learning new techniques all the time with each and every project I take on......

Here is a cockpit I built for a 1:20 scale Sopwith Camel......

Building the central console out of plastic card for a B17G

For example....I use different gauges of electrical wire stripped from old TV/radios which can replicate many things in scratch building......like these two 50 caliber MGs....

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Here's all the plastic card and wire used to build these guns...

I built this 1:48 scale Yak-3 mainly from balsa wood and paper card...

It can take many months to scratch build one of my models...in fact a 1:20 scale SE5a took me over two years to build!......I have an on going project of a B17G which has taken me nearly 10 years so far!

So to that end the two most important ingredients to scratch building are......time and patience.....luckily I have plenty of both!

Here is a Hispano Suiza engine I built for my SE5a...mainly from pieces of wire and balsa wood.....

Here are a few more examples of my scratch building techniques........

This is a 1:30 scale Westland Lysander Pilots seat........

Here is a auxiliary generator for a B17 Flying Fortress

Built from scrap plastic and wire ....here is a 1:20 scale ball turret for a B17G

These are only a few of my scratch building techniques...........

Too see my finished models......PLEASE GO TO THE GALLERY.