Old Models
| These are models I mostly no-longer have and date from a long time ago… | ||||
| Cardboard Spaceships | ||||
   
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| These are all scratchbuilt from cardboard or thick paper with old kit parts stuck on for detailing. | ||||
   
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| Bashed Kits | ||||
 Inspired by the Star Wars™ B-Wing, the cockpit and main wing are from a 1/72 F111 and the vertical wings are from a 1/72 Harrier. |
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  A 1/72 tank chasis with extra detailing, and a couple of Harrier wings with a tail plane stuck on top.
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 This is the back-pack from a robot kit (something called Iron-Gear I think), with a plastic girder and the “ears” from the same robot at the front 
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 Bloodhound surface to air missile.Not modified, just photographed in an alternative location. |
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| Mecha | ||||
  I don’t remember where these mecha come from (anybody recognize them?). The “ray-gun” effect was achieved by cutting a slot into the background,and shining a slide projector though the hole. This was done before the days of Photoshop™. It does have the advantage of casting light onto the front of the model, which adds to the realism. 
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 This is the only picture I could find of this scratchbuilt robot. It was made of sheet plastic with odds and ends stuck on for detail.
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| Space Marines | ||||
| Space marines look like Wombles to me, so I tend to modify their noses to reduce the resemblance. | ||||
 Same “ray-gun” trick as the robot above.
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  The basis for the gun-emplacement was the electron gun from a T.V. tube
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 This is a scratchbuilt 1/32 Space Marine, scuplted onto an Airfix multipose figure |
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| Model Engineering | ||||
| These two models were entered in the Sci-Fi classes of the Model Engineer Exhibition. | ||||
     
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| The Tech Dragon won me a gold medal in 1988 | ||||
 
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| Road Runner won a bronze medal in 1989. | ||||
| The rest Things I couldn’t find any other way of grouping together. |
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| Games Workshop Skeletons. They always struck me as looking like Ray Harryhausen skeletons. | ||||
   
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 This bunker was made using various bits of plastic sheet, milliput etc. It had the wind-up motor from a Zoid to make the scanner go round.
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 This is a heavy weapons lizard. I posed it with a lizard on a speeder bike, but I don’t have a decent photo of the two together.
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 I think this ship came from the Japanese Lensman anime. I tweaked it a bit because I thought that aesthetically it was a bit short.
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 Enterprise ‘A’. I didn’t like this kit much. It’s too big for me to cope with, and it didn’t fit together very well. I tried lighting it with fibre-optics, which didn’t work well either.
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 Death Star TrenchI bult the X-Wing and Andy Coleman built the T.I.E. Fighter from the T.I.E. interceptor with scratch-built “wings”. We used to pose them together on our display tables, so we then thought we could make a part of the trench. It was about 1 meter long, and detailed with whatever we could find. |
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