Memory Lane

M.Julian Marles
Yep, that's right..he did a bunch..I remember the B-17 (or B29?!) one that came with the kit, it was so rad back then!

M.Julian Marles
"It'll be great - where's mom's lighter?"

Murad ÖZER
LOL i did put an otherwise good airfix f16b on fire exactly like that! btw goto here for some more of Paine's work along with the aforementioned Brummbar dio: sheperdpaine.com/
and the rest are here: sheperdpaine.atspace.com/index.htm

M.Julian Marles
Pretty cool, thanks!

Frank Krause
Thanks for sharing these memories, Julian! Yeah, these were the times, when people just used, what was in the box or what they found at home. And the results were great - Murad's links prove that.

M.Julian Marles
Yep, just finished reading a military modeller where a panzer IV was converted to a jagdpanzer.....because there was no kit! Now we are like :"oh that old dragon kit is lame" 0_o

Barkmann
I still have two of those old goodies laying about: "How to build dioramas" and "Building and painting Scale figures". Those were indeed the times! But thinking to that period were the modeller was the orphaned fosterchild, those books were also an invaluable help in finding new ways or even innovative techniques! The stuff you could do with an elastic band, a fine needle... or the replacement stuff, like "use this' to get 'that'. I remember vividly cutting pieces out of the 'flyscreen' then cutting it up in one-piece strands to make barbed wire ...

Murad ÖZER
Drybrushing galore! I practically grew up gazing upon diorama books of Paine and Verlinden, works and techniques of these and many other gentleman of their time do have a soft spot in me heart no matter what the new word on the street is (drybrushing is old news haven't you heard?!). Road to Damascus' never gonna get old for me and I bet my hat on it who ever came up with that B$ just to sell his own books and products did grow up reading these same books too which probably made em a 'master modeller' in the first place...HAH
/rant
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M.Julian Marles
LOL...yah, I still drybrush a bit..hee hee!

Martyn Fox
Oh the memories of a long distant childhood. I must have built most of the Tamiya stuff, inspired by the likes of Verlinden and Shep Paine🙂

M.Julian Marles
Yeah, me too - not so much pressure on superdetailing back then! I still use a lot of those old tricks n' tips though!

zuma zuma
good history window

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Cool , I've got quite a lot too

M.Julian Marles
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Spanjaard
ha haha, i did built a couple of those myself back in the days!

John Thomas
Just out standing adds. I also have and used Shep Paine's book and tried my hand at building some of his Dioramas

gorby
Thanks for posting these photos, I enjoyed looking through them.

M.Julian Marles
When I am bored I often end up reading these old mags, actually there are still some good tips n tricks in there! 😉 Glad you mates liked the album 🙂