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 IX Workshop Diary

Workshop diary
The sliding canopy frame
Monday, 20th April, 2020

The frame for my Spitfire’s sliding canopy is made of metal (litho-plate and 0.5 mm aluminium sheet) glued and screwed directly to the underlying clear...
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Techniques aired and shared

Vac forming made easy
Thursday, 19th January, 2017
Few techniques are more valuable when scratch building model aircraft than vacuum forming styrene sheet. Yet many model makers, myself included, have been put off...
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