I pride myself in creating models with limited resources using innovative techniques that cater to both kit and scratch modellers. My interest is anything automotive, my enthusiasm is pre-1940, and my passion is racing and record breakers. I have been making model cars since Airfix introduced 1/32 scale injection molded plastic kits in the 1950s, some of which I still have but most of which were unsatisfactory to me, lacking scale details, and requiring "adjustment".
I returned to kit modelling a generation later, the kits had improved in detail but still did not satisfy my need for scale detailing. A couple of these kits had to wait until my retirement by which time I had developed the skills to make them what I needed them to be.
With these skills I was now able to scratch build cars that really interested me and were not available in any kit form. My tools were limited but I was able to add to them over the years and I developed sources and techniques to achieve my goals. My biggest resource was now the internet where I could find photos and information about any car, and find sources of materials to build my models.
What is displayed on this site is the result of a lifetime's work of learning how to build miniature version of cars I could not afford or access, or that no longer existed, but that really interested me from a historical or a design perspective. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I have enjoyed building them.
My Latest Project - 1924 Bluebird
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With my models I have tried to tell the early story of the World Land Speed Record and some of the remarkable cars that attempted to break those records.
The Sunbeam 350hp in her original guise after purchase by Malcolm Campbell
The only time the record was broken 3 times by the same car was between 1922 and 1925 by the 350hp Sunbeam which became Bluebird 1 when owned and driven by Malcolm Campbell.
This significant car has been restored to running condition, is displayed at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, and is often brought out and run at suitable events. The car was modified over its history but the version I have chosen to model is as it ran at Pendine Sands in 1924 and broke the record for the second time.
Bluebird between runs at Pendine in 1924
Bluebird at Speed on the very wet sands at Pendine 1924
Bluebird on her 1925 run at Pendine
The Sunbeam 350hp on display beside the 1935 Bluebird and the 1964 Bluebird.