Scalemakers - Automotive scale models

Marko's and Sasa's scale modeling blog, mostly cars and bikes but you can find all sort of tips, pictures, helps....who knows what else, browse and... Build your dream!

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This one was sweet and quick, Bandai snap kits are work of art, fit, details, possibilities, truly amazing. I can just imagine how good is their 1/72 scale falcon since this 1/144 is already better then most of plastic kits I ever made...and I made them a lot. Bravo Bandai 👍🏻

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Finally finished, even though it is half curbside model with no suspension details it is fairly detailed and complex, especially because of huge 1/12 scale. Model itself is very accurate and detailed but I had to add some more in interior and especially in engine compartment. Produced by model factory Hiro, painted with various Tamiya and Gunze, finish with zero and automotive 2K, metal parts are alclad.

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Ferrari 488GTE from modelfactoryhiro in 1/12 scale, interior is mostly finished, a lot of things were changed or added, still it is missing a lot of things from real car, problem is, every race different set up and it is not easy to find pictures of exact LeMans car from AF Corse.

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Kitty Hawk’s 1/48 SU-17M4 With Eduard PE, resin cone, wheels and weapons

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Succesor is finished, now I only miss the integrale....

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Another beast from modefactoryhiro in massive 1/12 scale, lot of details and hard work but it pays off in the end. I am going a bit slower with this one just to make sure there are no mistakes and that everything fits in the end. Engeneering on this one is much better then on 037 and there are no big issues for the time beeing. It is just shame that no reference pictures are inclouded since all the books I have and all the pictures doesn't show all the details you need, specialy arround the engine.

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1/4 Ducati 1299 from Pocher

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Few more pictures...

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Five months later, more then 300 hours of work, lot of schratch built stuff, over 100 additional rivets and few metars of various wire it is finaly done. Modelfactoryhiro made an impressive kit.

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Model factory Hiro 1/12 Lancia 037 rally Monte Carlo

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Lancia 037 1/12 model factory hiro in progress

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Moving along slowly, it is hard not to push one more then the other...

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Next project.....

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Ferrari F2003GA, 1/20, Model factory Hiro

This is my favorite model, it was build a long time ago and I would say that it is still the best one I made, if not by execution then by the level of details.

I spend huge amount of time to research and execute this one, changed so many things to improve a perfect kit but it was worth it.

I would say that motivation is a key, I was so determined to do it that nothing could stop me.

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MIG-25PD in 1/48 from Kitty Hawk models

I am a huge fan of cold war Russian machines, specially MIG-25 and MIG-31 and even thou this kit was highly criticized on some forums, I think that it is a must if you like this plane. I changed some obvious mistakes made on the model, scratch build some stuff and used eduard PE set all around, changed the wheels with resin ones and basically that’s it.

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Tamiya Ferrari F60 1/20

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On it's feet, MFH Suzuki GSX-R K7 in 1/12