Pocher Porsche 917K 1/8 HK118
01-12-2024 Time flies by and so does the progress, even though I was busy with a modelshow and personal stuff last past weeks. The further into the build, the more the joy disappears and frustration appears. I still love the kit and it’s details and looks. But the the build-order
Pocher Volvo F16 Globetrotter KM/87 1/8
Update 19-09: Even though it doesn’t seem like it, but many, many hours have been spent on working on the Volvo, mostly it has been sanding, as the kit parts itself are horrible. The tanks were so horrible, that the easier way would be to draw some new tanks, add
Word from ‘The Creative Explorer’
Hello Everybody! It has been quite some time, since I’ve updated and wrote on the blog. One thing led to another and before I knew it, we are where we are now. If I track it down, I think it started just around when we moved to our current house
Dakar 2022 build
For this years Dakar build, I chose something different, I picked the Revell H2 kit. Which is not directly a Dakar ready car from the box… A bit understated :-). The plan is to rise the suspension 4 inches and use better wheels & tires. Together with some more off-road
Le Mans 24hr build 2021
2021, time for a new 24hr Le Mans project. This time an older car; the ’68 Corvette as at ran in ’70-’72 Endurance races. It should be a rather straight forward build, no surprises and a rather nice kit for it’s age. Enough detail and the moldings are crisp. Ofcourse
1/8th Jaguar E-type DHC & FHC
AND WE ARE BACK!!! Ok, it took way too long, but yes, we are back! Due to several reasons, but mainly because we moved into a new home, it took longer than expected before we could start up the hobby again. And what a start it is! Not just
Le Mans 24hr build 2019
June 15/16 will be the date for the Le Mans 2019 race and the 24hr build-off with the Dutch IPMS. Unfortunally I have to work that weekend at a Dutch racetrack and won’t be able to participate at home. But I still want to give it a try and give
Caterham Super Seven JPE (1/12 Tamiya)
Everybody has those kits in their stash ‘for later on, when I can do justice to that kit’. I have a couple of them and kept saving them for later. But very recently I lost a modelling friend to that awful ‘C’-disease, he basically kept modelling till the last and
Routemaster cartransporter
Ok, here’s a wacky idea; how about a car transporter, made from a Routemaster, or London bus? Somewhere on my vacation-break I got this awesome idea and started playing with it, I bought another London Bus kit from Revell (I kept the first one to be build stock) and got
1949 Mercury Custom Coupe
It has been a while since I’ve done a special paint project, I thought it was time again for a new project, trying some new techniques. My goal is not the best of the best paint-quality, I mean I try too, but the joy in learning and creating something new,
Porsche 356 B Coupe & C Cabriolet 1/16 Revell
Since the Coupé is a easy-click and the Cabriolet a full-detail, I am reviewing and comparing them side by side. For both models, a lot of putty is required to straighten the body, there are a lot of imperfections and sink-marks in both body’s.It is noticable, that the coupé covers
IPMS Corvette C7 Group-build
I just started working on a new project, this one is just for fun; not striving for a perfect fit and finish, but thinking out of the box and make something the kit wasn’t intended to be. So here goes:
2018 Le Mans 24 hours build
It is the time of the year again; the most exhausting race is happening! Almost being a tradition, during the 24 hours of Le Mans, I will try to build a Le Mans racer during those 24 hours. For this year, I chose a Hasegawa Porsche 962. When I received
Paris-Dakar 2018 build; Renault 5
For the second year, I organised a small groupsbuild for the Dutch IPMS. We build during the Dakar-race a Dakar model. There has been plenty of kits of Dakar vehicles and one can build something nice within 2 weeks, if necessary. Last year, I did Tamiya’s Pajero and I was
Finding an extreme rare modelkit (1/12 Mazda RX-7, but wait for it!)
It can’t be a secret anymore that I love big scale modelkits, I have a strong passion for them and love the oddball kits in larger scale. One of the harder to get modelkits is the Hasegawa Mazda RX-7 in 1/12 scale. Not a model I have been looking very
1/32 Revell Messerschmitt ME-262
The third and for now last review model for the Dutch IPMS. After this build it is time for some customer work and after that some time for my own projects.
Schnappy Hemi
At the moment, I am finishing a lot of older projects, cleaning out my closet so to speak. Even though I am finishing those, I did wanted to start a new build too. A somewhat simple build, good for practising my airbrush skills. When I held the two body parts
1/8 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
This is a future commissioned build for the IPMS Netherlands, it will also be build close to box-stock and will add written text, after the article has been published.
Dodge Challenger 2009
Ever since I built the ’09 Challenger for Thomas his birth day, I knew I had to built one again. The one for Thomas was the AMT curbside, this time I take a turn on the Revell Challenger, which is just so much better in so many ways. The detail
1937 Ford Pickup, rodded
It has been a while since I build a hotrod, I believe it was the 1937 Ford Sedan build a couple years ago. So it was time for me to get started on one, I began the pickup a few months back, but didn’t do anything but sanding the parts.
Mitsubishi Pajero Paris-Le Cap winner 1992
All projects to a hold; for the next two weeks, I will be building this Pajero. During the Dakar of 2017, I initiated a groupsbuild for the Dutch IPMS and this will be my entrance in the build. Day 1: Unboxed the Pajero, got the body apart and got all
Revell Sunseeker Predator 108ft
This model has been commissioned as a reviewmodel for the Dutch IPMS magazine, when this model has been finished and published, I will update the post with the translated article. Until then, I can only show the pictures.
Sometimes you find that kit one has been looking for a long time
One of the kits I’ve been looking for for a long time is the 1/8 Porsceh 911 by either Eidai Grip or Entex. It all started with the pictures from a secondhand website, the add caught my attention and when I looked closer, I noticed one thing; If that yellow
Lamborghini Aventador 1/8 Pocher
It is time, time to take a second take at the Aventador. Reviewing it for the IPMS, I built it box-stock, no alterations. This time, I am going to built it my style. But I am not going into extreme detailling. I will alter parts, replace some, scratch some, but
Le Mans 2015 24hr build (Bentley Blower & Renault 5)
I am sorry, but I am not going to bore you with a lot of text. Why? Simple, I joined a community build of the Dutch IPMS, in which we build a car (or more) during the 24hrs of Le Mans, the catch is to build a Endurance racer, that
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air barnrod
I have seen a video somewhere on Youtube that gave me inspiration for building this. I was going to use a scrapped 1/24, but decided to go bigger and doubting on 1/16, I chose 1/12 in the end. I had a partial built ’57 sportscoupe laying around and other than
Toyota GT86
I started this project a little while back, it will be a celebrating model in honour of our soon to be born baby. I made a Dodge Challenger for our first son and so I wanted to make something for the upcoming child (he or she, we don’t know). Just
1936 Ford sedan hotrod
I decided it was time to build me a hotrod again, just for the fun of it. After spending time in my ‘warehouse’, I found a nice simple kit, perfect for a quick, but fun build: The pictures are a bit behind, as I went for it and didn’t want
Jaguar E-type drophead coupe series 1,5 4.2
One of my projects for this year is going to be a E-type. You just can’t beat the beauty of that car. I have build the Revell convertible before, but that one wasn’t so good. I was able to get my hands on a couple of HighTech series from Gunze
1/9 Volkswagen Kübel ‘Kubelrod’
A while back I purchased this kit in Belgium because I like big scale and it was affordable, due to not building military I soon sold it again. Ever since I kept looking for a decent priced one and not that long ago, I was able to find one for
Audi R8 ‘Warrior’
This project is going to be a thought that I had, put into ‘reality’. My wife likes the R8 a lot and I find it a hideous car, not worthy of the title supercar at all. Even though it’s performance is nice, the looks are as mondain as any other
1940 Ford early modified
Due to disappointing results in the last projects, I got a bit dismotivated and I am still there, I don’t really spend much dedicated modellingtime anymore, nor the drive to finish something. I have many open projects at the moment and decided to let them be for now and start
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Coupe
I got bored…. It happens more often and than I wonder through my kits and get new ideas, I went through a new stash and soon got the idea to make something I’ve not seen before, I wanted to have a modern japanese rallycoupe, other than the Impreza. I wanted
Krupp Titan
My first truck! After visiting Jabbeke, I got a little caught by the trucks and wanted to build me a truck or two. This truck has been given to me for review in the Dutch IPMS magazine. This is how the partly assembled chassis looks like now, I will add
Seventies Ford Econoline ‘Wizard’ van
The Rommel’s Rod is almost finished and it has been a while since I had a true challenge for me and my airbrush, so instead of going for an easy paintjob, I decided to go way difficult and over my head haha. I started this van somewhere in 2009, but
Rommel’s Rod
The idea is to make a weathered hotrod from Edwin Rommel. The kit I am using is the well-known re-issue of Rommel’s Rod. I finally have all the ingredients I will be using and the guts to work on it. I started yesterday and worked on the body, I applied
1959 Chevrolet Impala custom
The first, but small update. I have not found the exact path I want to follow, but I made with photoshop a course idea of what I have in mind. I left the color white, as I am not sure what colors to use just yet. This is the original
1/12 Doyusha Porsche 911 v8 twinturbo wip
The Porsche 911 V8 TwinTurbo! I haven’t been working on a big-scale’s for a long time (with exception to the Citroen DS, which is a bad, bad, bad kit) I haven’t been over here either. But recently I started to look again and I noticed the SMC Contest, which I
1966 Chevrolet Chevelle prostreet custom wip
A mouthfull, but it is what it is. When looking through my stash for a nice build that I can complete before the nationals, I ended up with the Chevelle Wagon. I had idea’s that were mild custom, but then my eye landed upon a started ’67 Chevelle ProStreet kit
1970 Buick Wildcat wip
I started this project not too long ago. I thought it would be a nice, simple project. It has only 26 parts and it is only a curbside. I painted the car in a light-brown, but didn’t like the looks of it. So I painted it with a dark-green paint.
Mercedes SLS AMG work in progress
I bought recently this kit, soon after the purchase I opened the box and the first word that came out of my lips was WOW. Seriously, Revell nailed it with this kit. The engraved detail looks awesome and the molds are very crisp. I had my ranting and raving over