Welcome to my website. For all who visit, I hope you enjoy these pages; for the fraternity of model makers – wherever you may be – I hope that you will find something that you can take away and use... for there can be few better or more pleasurable ways to improvement than to contemplate the successes (and failures) in the work of others.
My current book, now on sale
Spitfire in my Workshop
A detailed and step-by-step account of the construction of a museum model masterpiece.
Spitfire Mk I gallery (1:5 scale model)
P51-D Mustang gallery (1:5 scale model)
My latest project – a Spitfire Mk IX
Workshop diary
Sliding canopy – the vac-form tool
Wednesday, 7th August, 2019
It is more than a year since I commissioned Colin Essex to carve the pattern for my Spitfire’s blown canopy. Colin is a true craftsman...
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Techniques aired and shared
WW1 spoked wheels (covered)
Monday, 2nd May, 2011
As a scratch builder of early aircraft, there’s one job I dread – spoked wheels, and I’m probably not alone! Even under canvas covers, spokes...
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