



Model and Hobby Shop in Broughty Ferry, Dundee
As we sit through another day of pouring rain, we finally got around to post our finished Greek Infantry!
We were commissioned to build a Torpedo boat! Couldn’t tell who was happier – the customer, who had their boat built, or us, who got to make something instead of doing paperwork.
After building this ship, we can safely say that the ancient Greeks would never have employed us. It turns out this project, which we began in May 2021, took two whole years to finish! The part that we thought we would enjoy the most was the rigging. It was quite fun to bein with, until we realised we’ve completely misread the instruction and had to redo it again and again. Nevertheless, we persevered and here is the building process in all its glory.
In between two big projects, we have sneaked in this simple model build to save our sanity. Egg planes really are as fun as they look.
Following our successful car build back at Christmas, we decided to make another vehicle. We chose this WWI era British lorry by Miniart thinking it would be a walk in the park. How hard could it be? It’s just a wooden box on four wheels, no? No!
In this project, we have gone big with the Apollo Saturn V Rocket – the space vehicle that transported the first man to the Moon! The real thing was 110m high. We worked on a 1:144 model, which has an impressive height of 77.5cm.
Building on our new found passion for the Classical Period, we have added some Gallic chariots to our collection.
Working our way through the “started-but-probably-never-going-to-be-finished stash”, we have finally completed our Carthaginian War Elephants!
So…Christmas was a little different from what we expected. With tons of spare time and nowhere to go, we ended up racing through this model in just one week!