Miniature

24/08/202130/08/2021

The Flying Scot – Sir Jackie Stewart, Monaco 1973 Diorama – Completed

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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15/06/201920/06/2024

Monaco 1992 Diorama – Part 1

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 …

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19/09/201726/08/2021

Adelaide 1994 Part 3 – The Diorama

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, …

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27/04/2017

Benetton Ford B194 – Adelaide 1994 Part 2

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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04/10/201617/07/2020

Adelaide 1994 – Pit Stop Diorama – Completed

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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03/10/201631/10/2021

Suzuka 1989 Diorama – Completed

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.

03/10/2016

Suzuka 1989 Diorama – Part 2

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 …

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13/09/2016

Suzuka 1989 Diorama – Part 1

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 …

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07/09/201619/07/2020

Malaysia 2004 Diorama – Complete Gallery

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 …

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05/09/201619/07/2020

Monaco 2002 Diorama – Complete Gallery

Continuing the theme of Jenson Button’s F1 career, here is a mini-diorama I made back in 2003/04 from a now deleted Provence Moulage kit of the Renault R202. After a lack-lustre performance at Benetton Renault in 2001, Button survived Flávio Briatore’s attempts to replace him in what was now the Renault works team for 2002. …

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