New Projects Nostalgia...

Not your traditional Christmas Eve ... I spent most of the day cleaning and organizing my workshop so that I can actually get something done in there without tripping over crap every time I tried to move.

I'm happy with the results, now I can get in there and start playing :)

All images © Allen Rockwell 2007

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Toriyama Akira passed away on March 1st, 2024 at the age of 68.

RIP…

still life double exposure of an Airfix model kit & tools

Obviously the title is a joke ... but it sure looks that way. Actually I used to own a hobby shop so I have lots of stuff left over from the store.

Not your traditional Christmas Eve ... I spent most of the day cleaning and organizing my workshop so that I can actually get something done in there without tripping over crap every time I tried to move.

I'm happy with the results, now I can get in there and start playing :)

All images © Allen Rockwell 2007

My Photography Podcasts and Blogs

Recently, in order to learn different mech designs, especially its body proportions, I am building "Wanzer", a humanoid weapon appearing in the game title "Front Mission". After all, you know, it is easy to fall into mannerism if you make it by relying only on your own imagination, isn't it? The name Steinadler is a German word that means stone eagle (gold eagle). I chose this name because the gray body and its shape reminds me of the golden eagle.

Nichimo 1:200 scale U-Boat - my effort for Macro Mondays on the theme of vowels

Here is my just finished Tamiya 1/48 scale Spitfire Mk 1.

Here is my 1/48 scale Monogram model UH-1B Iroquois photoshopped over sand dunes. I flew in the real one over Stockton Beach sand hills a great many times. The kit is really a UH-1C, but I modified to represent a RAAF B model with rescue hoist. Decals came from the scrap box.

MG THE-O

1/100 scale

Here my 1/48 Monogram modified UH-1B Huey overflies my model 1/48 Italeri Mirage IIIO.

The Canandaigua Southern was the model railroad of the late John Armstrong and while there was a white boxcar made by USAT with a CS logo on it I found it to be not quite fitting with what I used to see in the pages of Model Railroader when I used to read articles about John's great O Scale railroad. So, I designed my own decals and with the help of some friends did up my own boxcar to honor Mr. Armstrong.

My last completed model of 2022, a Tamiya 1/48 scale Spitfire Mk 1 has appeared out of the construction room.

Here we have my first attempt at staging a 1/72 scale WW2 sunset view on a remote Pacific Island strip to our north. My HobbyBoss 1/72 scale P-40's and a pre made 1/72 Jeep.

Here is my recent build, an ICM 1/48 scale clipped wing Mk IX wearing 453 Squadron, RAAF markings.

This is a 4-6-2 locomotive in G Scale 1:29.

PC GP leads this local freight with boxcars over a bridge. I snagged the pic in my backyard.

35mm f/2 Zeiss Milvus Distagon ZF.2 @ f/22

Here is my almost fnished Otaki/Arii 1/48 scale Spitfire Mk VIII with RAAF markings.

I have just finished this 1/48 scale, Occidental kit with after market Squadron / Aircraft codes, but the rest using the kit decals. Represents a Spitfire Mk IX flown by 453 Sqn, RAAF, Europe WWII.

New toys...:)

These are 1:32 scale AML boxcars that I painted and lettered for the Reading RR.

New Project...

Revell Norton Manx 500cc 1/9

Finally got some IDF decals on my Academy 1/48 scale, IDF Piper Super Cub. A rather difficult kit for myself, I took great pains with my poor skills to try and get those canopy lines right.

Finished....?

Triumph Tiger 100

Revell