Vintage Racers in action

If, like me, you’ve got a couple of the reissued Airfix vintage car kits from a couple of years go these vintage racing pictures could giveyou some conversion ideas.

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Russian train pictures

English Rusia has some very nice pictures of Russian trains and railways. I wonder if anyone’s built any Russia based layouts? Given the grand scale of the Russian network they’d probably have to be in one of the really small scales.

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Lots of rat rod pictures from Billetproof 2008

Jalopnik has a mega gallery of pictures taken at the Billetproof rod meet in Antioch.

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Woodward Dream Cruise pictures

The Woodward Dream Cruise is a huge car meet. Jalopnik was there and they have lots of pictures- Hot rods, customs and muscle cars.

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Baikonur and St. Petersburg

English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.

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Aetheric Mechanics


SCUD, originally uploaded by warrenellis.

WArren Ellis has posted a set of reference images used in his upcoming Aetheric Mechanics graphic novel. They loo like prime materials for Luft ’46 subjects.

Soyuz on the train

io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn’t get a match for “Soyuz” at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.

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Rebuilding a Sherman tank

Jalopnik has pictures of one man’s project to rebuild a Sherman tank

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Russian WW2 memories

A collection of personal photographs from a Russian soldier’s collection.

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Autorama

Jalopnik have been to the Detroit Autorama, and have a lot of posts crammed full of inspiration for car modellers.

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Russian soldiers in Chechnya

This photoset from English Russia shows Russian troops in less hectic moments during the Chechen conflict.

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Library of Congress photo collection on Flickr

If you’re interested in modelling any American subjects then you might want to check out the Library of Congress feed on Flickr, which is filling up with documentary images, mostly from the start of the twentieth century.

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Coop goes to the So-Cal Speed Shop

Coop has a gallery up on Flickr from a visit to one of the most famous customising companies in the world- So-Cal Speed Shop L.A. Open House, 11/3/07

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Reader’s Rides

Pictures of hot rods belonging to readers of Hot Rod Gazette. As a number of these are very English it may be hard to get models of them in larger scales. But I have a liking of small scale customs, so I may take inspiration.

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MAKS 2007 International Air Show

More airshow pictures from English Russia.

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