It’s been a long time since I had the time to work on a new model project… Life is busy. Work is busy. Being a husband and a dad is busy! …So finding the time to create something new is hard to find. Fortunately, I do get a lot of time both to think and to …
The most important part of any diorama is the planning phase; it’s here that you can make sure that you are capturing all you set out to in your model, by analysing and refining the setting. With this model, this is a fact that I would be reminded of later in the process!! For me, …
Having pretty much finished the Williams, I turned by attention to the second car required for the diorama, Michael Schumacher’s Bennetton Ford B194. Designed by Rory Byrne & Ross Brawn, this was the car that ultimately carried Schumacher to his first championship in 1994. The car was not without controversy however, with the late Ayrton …
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This is my first update on here in a while, but not because I’ve not been doing any model making. After finishing my Prost/Senna diorama last year, I decided that I wanted to build another diorama of a famous (or infamous) title decider, so I plumped with Damon Hill & Michael Schumacher’s notorious collision at …
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OK, OK… so this doesn’t exactly fit the description of “Fine Scale Motor Racing”! However, this has been my latest project and is pretty much complete. This is an Airfix plastic kit that I picked-up on eBay. I hadn’t built an Airfix plastic kit since I was a kid, so it was a nice stroll …
This was the first 1:43 diorama I ever built. I remember it was a long “off and on” project, which I finished in around 2005. I chose the subject matter because I’d always thought that Nigel Mansell in the Williams Renault FW16 looked great, because of the red, white & blue effect that his crash …
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A photo gallery of my newly completed Suzuka 1989 Diorama. This has been a real labour of love, and I am delighted with the results. I hope you enjoy these photos.
Having completed both cars, it was now time to turn my attention to the Marshall figures. Again the ever-fantastic Denizen figures were used, but all of them needed to be modified to a certain extent.. all the figures came with their own heads/helmets, but none of them looked like the open-faced helmets as worn by …
Having completed the second McLaren of Ayrton Senna, it’s not time to begin work on the other figures in the diorama. Completing the McLaren was fairly straightforward, with more reference being made to the photographs is found of the scene in question. I noticed that the right-hand wheels of the McLaren had grass on them …
The final instalment of the Jenson Button gallery brings him to his first podium finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2004. Having missed out at the same race in 2002, Button was released by Renault at the end of the season to make way for Flávio Briatore’s protégé, Fernando Alonso. This saw Button …
