Welcome to my modelling desk.

WW2 Model Airplane Kits and their construction.

Well now to write a little about me, I'm 47 live in New Zealand I've been building kit sets since I was a wee tyke. I brought my first two over the fence from my next door neighbour Alex. I then spent the next years spending all my pocket money on kits and glue, roughly one tube of glue per kit! Later I learnt the art of using just enough glue that I didn't soften the plastic and have the sides of the model collapse. Later again I learnt how to paint them, but just the outside! My modeling took off when I got a job, all of my remaining disposable income after paying bills was spent on models and the tools and accessories of my hobby.

I became fast friends with the proprietor of my local hobby shop, run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. (sadly now long defunct) From these enthusiasts I learnt my new and novel ideas, namely painting the interior and filling the open seams with putty. my models began to actually look like smaller versions of the original. Later I became interested in researching the subject of my model, what squadron, where and who flew it.

Much later I became interested in my countries contribution to the Second World War, I read about the brave men who flew fought and died thousands of miles from their homeland, of our soldiers resilience and resourcefulness. The Long Range Patrol initially all drawn from the ranks of New Zealand Infantry and later the Long Range Desert Group. Of our pilots who fought and died in the early days in France and in the Battle of Britain. Our contribution way in excess of the size of our country. Of the outstanding men who came to command squadrons, Wings and entire sections of the RAF, both in the United Kingdom and the middle east.

This journey has been a frustrating but rewarding one, frustrating because of poor kits that took all my meager skill to put together (although at the time I cared not), rewarding by finishing and learning new techniques to deal with these models. The joy of making these kits look as real as possible, I have not as yet been badly affected by A.M.S. (Advanced Modelers Syndrome), but my wife watches my descent with apprehension (kidding hunny)! I have started a website to detail what I have learned and what can be done with the kits available to us. To encourage others to follow in my footsteps, learn from my mistakes. But mainly to inform and entertain my fellow enthusiasts, so that they may learn that their not weird and others suffer and enjoy the things they do. So welcome to my journey and to my world sit down and rest a while lets talk and see where it takes us.

Happy modeling

NZFlyboy