I’m so old, I can actually remember 1993. I can remember excitedly sitting around the television set to watch Nigel Mansell’s first ever Indy Car race – my dad had bought a satellite dish especially, and (as I recall), he’d bought it quite last minute… so instead of it being attached to the wall, it …
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I am really very, very excited about this! After months of work, planning and preparation, I am thrilled to be able to announce that in Q1 2022 I will be releasing a strictly Limited Edition of only 10 hand-built Dioramas, each individually signed by three-times Formula One World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, in support …
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I realised earlier this year that, since I started manufacturing my own range of figures last year, I hadn’t made time for any actual model making for months. I decided that this was something I need each to put right, and it didn’t take me long to decide upon the subject matter. I’ve still got …
I started building this diorama earlier this year, after watching the Roman Polanski documentary “Weekend of a Champion”. It’s easy to forget what a colossus of motorsport Sir Jackie Stewart is, Britain’s first (and until quite recently only), three times World Champion. His relentless drive for safety makes him remarkable in its own right, so …
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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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