Features

Here is another impressive scratch build from Barrie. This one goes far into the future with an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars. I shows you what some imagination and plastic sheets can build.

Barrie builds his own half track. Everything on this build is scratch built

Jan builds another Sci-Fi kit. This time it's from the Ma.K SF3D series of kits. This one is an armored suit called Fireball.

Jan shares his build of the ever famous Y-Wing Fighter from the Star Wars genre. It's a beautiful build of a great ship.

Emotional, that is what you get when you see one of JBA's dioramas. Each viewers has a different emotion, but we all feel something when we see his dioramas. This one is no different. He shares lots of tips and techniques from the ground up.

Brent takes a current AFV and sends it forward to WarHammer 40K. See what happens when two time period collide

Grzegorz Ziecina (Pedro) recently treated us with forum post with an impressive looking riverboat scratch-build being the focus, and here, Greg shares the build story with us (and more images)!

Rob shares a glimps for what guard duty is like in the future.

Vacuum-forming is one of those techniques that many of us think about but never try. This feature may break that barrier. This is a step by step that anyone with some basic tools can do.

When you need a large number of custom pieces creating molds is almost a must. Here one of our members shares how he made a mold using Lego blocks and silicone

Here are a couple of really simple techniques for making fake chains and springs.

Red4 introduces us to an 'add on' step to normal resin casting - Pressure. He walks you through what needed and how to ensure you get great resin castings every time.

Steve's background in prop making comes to help all of us with a great feature on how to reproduce parts in resin.

The tenth in the series brings us insight into how to pour RTV molds for casting reproduction pieces.

Jan brings us his wisdom on how he has perfected a method for making molds that leave you with no air bubbles in poured resin castings.

Working with resin is for most modelers a big hurdle, especially if they want to use to cast some own parts. Scott has written up a small article showing us that there is no need to fear it and that it is not that hard.

We re-visit one of the sites earliest scratchbuilding features as Jan (GeneralFailure) shows us how he converted Verlinden's 1/15 M113 kit into a M577A.

Jan scratchbuilds an M35A2 from scratch in this feature from 2002 (revised and updated images).

Ian shares a tip from modeler Norman Robinson, about an inexpensive way to stock yourself with utilitarian rivets for life!

Jan shares his experience and techniques on making silicone and resin molds to create an army of ammo boxes or other mass produced mayhem.