Small Scale Military Headquarters

1/18 scale Wallis WA-116 Agile autogyro scratchbuild model The following construction is a tribute to RAF Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS PhD, a pioneer gyrocopter aviator, who passed away early on Sunday morning, September 1st 2013. Ken was 97 years old. During the WWII, W...

CHAPTER XI - Epilogue & aknowledgments Although I had other plans at the beginning of this WIP, I was not really sure about the ending and especially the display base for the model. I changed my mind during the building process and finally decide to present as found in a small green grass covered a...

CHAPTER X - Alles zusammen Daily watering was successful and the green grass is now high & wild enough on the field display base. At last, I had to conclude the " alles zusammen " final step. To assemble all individual parts in one scene, without damaging the glider's construction, the paint, the w...

CHAPTER IX - Anchor & tie down I 've noticed that pilots & airfield supporting personel, use a number of improvised anchors types, to tie down the gliders, ultralights or even single engine aircrafts such as Cessna 172s, especially when operating from some grass covered airfield, without any perman...

Once the " Vandyke Brown " filter was fully dry, the next step was to apply a paint layer, to create the chipping effect. This could be done using the hairspray technique and in this case I did use the AK Interactive’s " Worn Effects " which has been developed for exactly this type of effect and wou...

Replicating rusty metal, sounds like the Quest for the Holy Grail for an average scale modeler like me. Of course, the books, the videos and the tutorial seminars provided by famous scale model masters, helps a lot to understand some basic principles. Furthermore, the available tools & materials tod...

CHAPTER VIII - Terse abandonment As previously wrote, my objective is to establish a scene of terse abandonment, without extreme features that could distract viewer’s attention, keeping the glider as the main protagonist of the story. The addition of a deflated windsock and a couple of Marsden matt...

CHAPTER VII - Pole dancing http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu211/Instytucie_Szybownictwa_IS-A/IMAGE_0118_zpsvblo5hwj.jpg The windsock presented earlier, needed a pole to be placed on. I thought it would be a good idea to build the windsock pole to look like it's made of weathered wood, instead o...

As previously stated, the scene supposed to takes place in Spring. Next job is to plant an additional static grass layer over the grass carpet. To do so, I used different colours of Heki static grass found at my local hobby shop. Heki, also specializes mostly in train dioramas. Someone might ask, wh...

Unlike the regular practice followed in my previous projects, in which I glued static grass & plants directly on ground untill filling the whole area, I decided to change for an easier and more appropriate method, taking into account the increased surface to be covered. To do so, I bought a 50x40 cm...

This is just an amazing thread and the quality of your work is fantastic! Well written and photographed, its a pleasure to read and watch to progress of this build. Feel free to also have a look on previous projects, also scratchbuilt, also well written and photographed. 1/18 scale Jukka Tervamäki ...

The whole grass field scene would require a 50x40 cm display base, considering that glider measures approx 70 cm wingspan in 1/18 scale. That could be a problem for my show case in home, which yes, it is big, but not big as an elephant. From the MDC - Model Display Cases store, I bought a 50x40 cm b...

If you followed this WIP during the earlier weeks, you might remember the update few weeks ago, when left home for a much needed vacation to the beach. I am having a difficult time transitioning back from vacation. I had an amazing month living on the beach, playing and soaking in sunshine and hones...

Once the acrylic paint dried, the outcome had tonality differences and looked like been faded by the sun. I had obviously overdone on highlighting the areas and therefore I had to fix this and make the shades softly blend each other. To do so, I mixed artists oil paint " Red " by MIG Productions “ 5...

At present time, the windsock is under painting proccess. I used the FS31302 " Matt Red " available by Life Color as LC06 acrylic, applied with a soft brush, to establish a basic layer and later blend it, to look brighter onto the points supposedly lightened more, by spraying much diluted FS30257 " ...

CHAPTER VI - Grass field display base construction When I started this project, I was concerned about the proper display option, on which the model would be placed. For this reason, I asked fellow modelers to advice on how they would do if in my position. Talented & world class scale modelers such ...

CHAPTER V - Applying paint, wash & weather effects As soon as the Humbrol light grey acrylic primer dried, the model washed with liquid soap and warm water to disappear leaving oil traces, fingertips etc. Usually, there are two available options for a scale modeler, to apply paint on a model: Paint...

CHAPTER IV - Attempting to join the basic parts As soon as the individual scale model’s parts were already produced, cleaned & dry fit tested, I had to assemble everything as one piece, without damaging the frame construction. Just because the Salamandra was entirely constructed of wood, I decided ...

CHAPTER III - Converting Mbytes into actual model parts Before start building a new scale model, I always try to study as much as possible the object of construction. If books, technical manuals and detailed walkaround photos are available, that will help a lot the model building process. To know h...

CHAPTER II - Meeting the Salamandra glider “ WWS ” is an abbreviation of " Wojskowe Warsztaty Szybowcowe " (meaning “ Military Gliding Workshops ” in Polish language), based in Krakow, Poland. Founded on 1935 by Waclaw Czerwinski who had taken over the management. The MRP-1 Salamandra project, was ...

CHAPTER I - Today, the scratch building died Spartans refused to improve their long range weapons, because they always wanted to fight close to their opponent. That's why they had short length swords aka “ xiphos ”. Plutarch mentions in his " Lakonic Sayings " that when sometime an improved version...

1/18 scale Instytucie Szybownictwa IS-A Salamandra 53 scratchbuild model The text following is to describe the 1/18 scale Instytucie Szybownictwa IS-A Salamandra 53 (1953 version) glider model building, as produced by aviation factories throughout Poland. http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu211/In...

As soon as I noticed that it started drooping down, I removed the frame while wearing Nomex Aramid flame resistant MilSpec gloves , to prevent finger burns. While the vacuum cleaner was already switched on, I placed the wooden frame with the pined styrene plastic sheet on the vacuum former plate. Th...

I got few wooden picture frames found at the local IKEA store for only 1€ to 3€ each (depending size) and few thumbtacks, to use them for steady & tight styrene sheet holding while being heated. Because I was planning to use smaller wooden frame to secure the styrene plastic sheet (the piece to be v...

My first thought was to build the solid rock one piece master cast of the cabin’s lower chin fairing, by standard Milliput yellow grey epoxy putty or polyester filler as I usually do. Since I had recently purchased a new material, I thought it would be a good opportunity to try it. Experimenting new...