Posts by Leigh Edmonds
Additions to the Museum’s Collection – 033, 9 October 2022
Additions to the Public Galleries Boeing 247D (United Air Lines) in 1/144 by Welsh Models Boeing 299AB (TWA) in 1/144 by Minicraft Curtiss P-40N in 1/48 by Hasegawa DeHavilland Comet 4B (BEA) in 1/144 by Airfix DeHavailland DH-91 Albatroll (Imperial Airways) in 1/144 by F-Rsin Douglas A-1H in 1/48 by Tamiya DFS 228 in 1/72…
Read MoreBoeing 247D in 1/144 by Welsh Models
This is a model that I’ve been wanting to make for many years but which hasn’t existed until this year. The Boeing 247 is a historically important aircraft which many call the first modern airliner. There had been other significant airlines before, such as the Fokker and Ford trimotors, but the Boeing 247 combined a…
Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 032 – The Century Series (part 1)
The Century Series (part 1) North American F-100, McDonnell F-101, Convair F-102 The ‘Century Series’ is a name commonly given to a series of high performance fighter aircraft flown by the United States Air Force. From the 1920s the air force began giving sequential numbers to its fighter aircraft, initially as ‘Pursuit’ with the P-1,…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 032, 3 October 2022
Additions to the Public Galleries Aero Commander 1121 Jet Commander in 1/72 by Aurora Airbus A.318 (AirFrance) in 1/144 by Revell Armstrong Whitworth Whitley in 1/72 by Frog Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation (Qantas) in 1/144 by Welsh Models/Minicraft Lockheed 1649A Starliner (Air France) in 1/144 by Minicraft/Welsh Models Vought F4U-7 in 1/72 by Italeri Vought…
Read MoreVultee Vanguard in 1/72 by AZmodel
This model was made from the Azmodel 1/72 kit using kit decals and represents a Vanguard in RAF colours and markings in 1942. I made this mode for the whimsical purpose of making all the kits of Vultee aeroplanes that I have in my Treasure. It is a totally unremarkable fighter, hardly worth noticing apart…
Read MoreLockheed 749 Constellation, Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation and Lockheed 1649 Starliner in 1/144 by Minicraft and Welsh Models
There comes a time in the life every modeller who sets out to make a model of every airliner ever made (particularly the French ones) that he has to confront the prospect of making the late model Lockheed airliners. Sure, they look great, but they are also a bugger to make. The first step in…
Read MoreDamned Decals Driving Me Mad
(Decaling the Fokker E.V and Airbus A.380) (August 2012) There comes a time in the construction of any model when all the seam lines have been filled, the bit and pieces have been stuck on more or less straight and the paint scheme is completed to a standard that DaVinci would be proud of. In…
Read MoreLittle French Beauties
(Fun making little French Aircraft) (February 2012) I don’t care what you say, French aeroplanes are amongst the most gorgeous looking flying machines ever made. (Some of their bombers might have lacked something in the aesthetic stakes, but I never said that if the case goes to court.) To prove my point, I submit as…
Read MoreModels for October 2022
Here is the link to my post over at Leigh Edmonds Little Box of Stuff with photos of models, old and new, that I showed at the recent Modellers of Ballarat meeting.
Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 031 – Allied Aircraft of the Pacific War (starting with the letter B)
Allied Aircraft of the Pacific War (starting with the letter B) CAC Boomerang – Bristol Beaufightr 1c – Boeing B-29 Having looked last time at some Japanese aircraft that fought in the Pacific War I thought it might be interesting to find three interesting aircraft that fought on the Allied side. As it turned out,…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 031, 26 September 2022
Additions to the Public Galleries Armstrong Whitworth AW.15 Atlanta (Imperial Airways) in 1/144 by Air Craft Models Boeing 307 (TWA) in 1/144 by Anigrand Boeing 720 (Braniff International) in 1/144 by Roden Convair B-58A in 1/144 by Hobbycraft Convair XB-46 in 1/144 by Anigrand DeHavilland Comet I (BOAC) in 1/144 by…
Read MoreMasochist Corner – More Head Banging in the Workshop
(December 2010) It occurs to me that this is becoming something of a running column of modelling disasters, one after the other. I wonder if other modellers have so many problems in pursuing their personal form of torment, or am I just going through a rough patch. Perhaps you all have the same troubles that…
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