MP Miniatures is a blog dedicated to scale modeling. This hobby has been in my life for more than a quarter of a century, being a constant source of enjoyment and relaxation. This blog was created to share some of the models I’ve been building over the years and help me documenting the latest projects, keeping track of experiments with different techniques and its results. I hope you will enjoy it and that you will find information useful for your own scale modelling projects.
A number of years ago, I was volunteering at the local Portuguese Air Force Museum (Polo de Ovar), in the preparation of an old derelict Piper Cub for static exhibition in the museum collection (it is now part of the museum collection). When some of the museum personnel became aware that I built models as a past time, they recruited my help for a simple project they were planing. The museum had a F-86 canopy in its collection and they wanted to display it in a simple set up, using it to enclose a simple diorama, depicting an airstrip, with a F-86 model in FAP colors and some ground personal. They needed help with the model and I immediately accepted the challenge. Continue reading “F-86F SABRE (1:48 SCALE)”
I have a soft-spot for Japanese animation. In my late teens, one of the series I was following was Neon Genesis Evagelion and some 20 years ago, I came across a resin figure kit of one of its characters. I could not resist making that purchase, adding it to my ever increasing collection of kits to be built. I started it a couple of years later, but as a modeller without any experience with this type of kit, it was just the start of a long (and intermittent) journey.
Continue reading “KATSURAGI MISATO from NGE (1:6 scale)”
I like reconnaissance aircraft and I have been building a collection. This is one of such aircraft, an Arado Ar 234 C-4, built using an old 1:72 scale Dragon kit. As far as I could gather, only a couple of these aircraft were ever completed at the end of WWII and I completed it in the decoration suggested by the kit’s producer. The decals were quite old (this model was produced in 1992) and during their application I encountered several problems, with silvering showing in many of them. While solving this issues, it came to my mind that I do not know of many online tutorials that show ways of solving this problem. So this was the motivation to make the attached video.
Continue reading “Arado Ar 234 C-4 (1:72 scale)”
1:48 Airco DH-2 model, built using Eduard’s stripdown kit.
A few years ago, I made a small workshop on scale model photography during Beja Modelshow 2017. It was a challenge proposed by our friend Simão Matos, one of the organizers of the exhibition. When finishing the workshop, I was surprised with the amount of requests for a written sum up, as it was considered to be to much information to be absorbed in a couple of hours. In the mean time, many other modellers have shared their approach and thoughts regarding scale model photography (some are listed bellow), so I decided just to describe my workflow for making a photo to share online. So, finally, here it is! Continue reading “How I photograph scale models”
In this second installment, we will continue with this minute F-15 build, concentrating on the camouflage painting (including a little video, showing how to freehand airbrush the camouflage colors). The aircraft I choose to depict is portrayed in a profile published in the excellent “F-15I Ra’am in IAF service” book, from Isradecal (the profile is in page 31). So, lets start applying paint!
Continue reading “F-15I (1:144 SCALE) – PART 2”
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