Posts by Leigh Edmonds
Caudron 232 in 1/72 and Bombardier CRJ200 in 1/144
Win One! Lose One! It’s been a month in which resin kits have spent a lot of time on my workbench, mostly by accident. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few of the now rare Dujin resin kits of interesting but obscure aeroplanes. I keep them in an archive box and occasionally pull one…
Read MoreNorth American Mustang IV in 1/72 by Academy
The North American P-51 is one of the most written about aeroplanes in the history of aviation. Designed and constructed in 120 days to meet the desperate needs of the British government in April 1940 it was a good aeroplane which became great when powered by the famous Rolls Royce Merlin engine. It was the…
Read MoreDewoitine 371 in 1/72 by Azur
Dewoitine is one of the best known names in French aviation, mainly because of the Dewoitine D.520 fighter, the ‘French Spitfire’, that served with distinction in the short Battle of France in mid 1940. Emile Dewoitine began constructing aeroplanes in 1923 and produced several good designs in the 1920s. Work began on the D.37 series…
Read MoreThe Curator Explains
Unless I state otherwise, everything in this little museum is my work. Me? Let me explain. My name is Leigh Edmonds and I’ve been a scale modeller for fifty years. My work in establishing this museum is the result of my experiences and influences over those years and my general interest in aviation, particularly civil…
Read MoreCrossing the Atlantic
When my father was posted from Britain to Kingston, Jamaica in 1951, my parents took my two younger siblings with them. I was by this time at an English boarding school and it was thought I would be better off staying there, and staying with relatives for the holidays. BOAC had recently taken over the…
Read MoreThe Start of Intercontinental Passenger Service
The first passenger intercontinental flights were based on European countries with colonial empires: KLM (Netherlands), SABENA (Belgium), and Air France all commenced services in the late 1920s from their home countries to outposts in Africa, and together with Imperial Airways of Britain soon started flying to the Middle East and Orient. The short ranges of…
Read More2021 in models
January 2021 The urge to paint aeroplanes Deep Sea Blue continues and this time goes to extremes with a model of a particularly interesting but flawed aeroplane, the Grumman XF10F. This was a variable geometry fighter designed for the US Navy which was worried that the new jet fighters were flying too fast to land…
Read More2020 in Models
February 2020 It’s been a couple of months since my last entry on the models I’ve made so I’ve been able to get some more airliner models made. They seem to be fairly time consuming, perhaps because there is so much masking associated with most airliners and it takes time to get myself motivated to…
Read More2019 in Models
February 2019 It’s been a while since I’ve had time to put photos of some of my most recent models here, so now it’s time to catch up. For some reason not clear to me they are almost all in 1/144 scale. Let’s start with the Anigrand kit of the Nakajima G5N2, a fully resin…
Read More2018 in models
July 2018 The memory chip in my camera was getting a bit full so I’ve spent the morning decanting it to the places where the images belong. Along the way I found pictures of some models that I’d put out to be viewed at our local club meetings. So, in scale order with 1/72 first,…
Read MoreThe MoB Goes to Expo, 2017-2019
More Expo Fun (July 2017) Everything was as it has been for many years as we set out for the annual Expo Excursion – except for the Wayne sized hole in our little group. He would have found this year’s jaunt down to the Big Event interesting, though probably not good for his wallet. We…
Read MoreThe MoB Chronicles 2014
I Went All the Way With Zim – to the Eastern Suburbs Swap and Sell and Back April 2014 Let’s leave aside the fact that I stood in the wrong place when Zim cane to pick me up. I’m guilty, I admit it, but anyone who expects my brain to be in anything but neutral…
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