Adie Roberts has been making models beginning in 1970s with the love of all models and has an exceptionally large collection of loft insulation (plastic model kits) much to a certain person disliking so I am told! All through his youth, he would go to town with his pocket money buy an Airfix or Matchbox. Now due to an unfortunate event at work, he is disabled and unable to work so has gone back to his lifelong hobby of building model dioramas of all types be it ships, planes, trains, or military
Today's inspiration is 'Unterseeboot' a 1/35th scale Conning tower with crew figures that have been changed in some have been changed from the original form by modeller Brian Wildfong called Gathering the Pack
A truly Prodigious diorama A hair's breadth from the movie "Greyhound" that is set out in such a genius manner that you see the bottom of the hull, so you can see the minute the torpedo scrapes the side of the hull, before heading in a different direction...
Award-winning build of the Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruiser Maya by modeller Andrey Bulatsen's stunning work
Maurizio Barbalucca and his stunning work on the Regia Marina Europa Italian seaplane carrier Europa was a seaplane carrier of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). Originally laid down as the merchant ship Manila, she was renamed Salacia in 1898, and th...
Lou Carabott, and his USS Wasp LHD 1 sea diorama absolutely stunning work The Wasp (LHD 1) is the lead ship of its own class of amphibious assault ships and the tenth ship in the U.S. Navy to bear that name. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingal...
Mike Kloppenburg and his stunning Das Wolfsbau a scratch-built U-Boot Pens, somewhere in France On 26 June 1940, France falls after a brief battle with German forces. Two days later, Grossadmiral Karl Donitz authorizes the construction of a massive submar...
It is not often you get the chance to do a review on a battleship, not just any old battleship, but a famous and historic one, I am now looking at the USS Missouri as a kit from Hobby Boss seeing how good it is and if it needs extras like aftermarket and...
This stunning diorama of the Kagerō-gata Kuchikukan (The Kagerō-class destroyers) was built by a modelling friend that I hold in high regard for his spectacular builds and dioramas Noriyuki Kato this destroyer being Yukikaze "Fighting the Weather and the...
A stunning diorama of the preparation of the Landing Craft Assault or LCA for short heading towards D-Day from modeller Gary Radford. The LCA (Landing Craft Assault) is the basic landing craft of the British Army. Drawn and produced in 1939, this craft i...
Two stunning dioramas from a modelling friend Ramir Durá and his dioramas of HMS Royal Oak and the U-47 and its Commander Gunther Prien proved that the impossible actually proved possible! On the night of Friday 13th October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, a 600-foo...
The Great Lakes in a truly stunning diorama from the modeller, member, and friend Kirk Brust and his truly inspirational model diorama completely scratch-built in 1/96th scale George C Howe steamer Battling the historic storm of 1913 on lake Superior
Stunning build of one of the most famous Ships if not the most famous Ship in history USS Missouri Battleship BB-63 the Battleship used its quarterdeck to sign the surrender of the Empire of Japan effectively ending World War II from modelling friend Devi...
Fantastic build of the Revell S100 Schnellboot from Michael Modellbauaccount Wohltmann some amazing detailed work on various parts of the boat
HMHS Isle of Thanet at Dunkirk Gare Maritime 1:700 The model shows an incident days before the start of Operation Dynamo when the converted Channel steamer the Isle of Thanet, being used as a hospital ship, picked up wounded soldiers of the BEF at the Dun...
I am a sucker to a seascape diorama especially a rough sea or ocean and we have this to a T from the skilled hand of modeller Kirk Brust and his stunning diorama Laker Sylvania and one day of terror. please note that this was completely scratch built ama...
