If you haven’t yet noticed, scratchbuilders choose their subjects carefully, making sure they’re sufficiently obscure to have never previously been modeled in scale form, yet are not so obscure to be impossible to research. Danny Downs seems to be rather proficient at toeing that line, judging from the vehicles he’s selected for his own scratchbuilding […]

Herb Miska, whose incredible scratchbuilt models inspired the recent posts on the scratchbuilt Pierce-Arrow dump truck and MacDonald low-loader, recently emailed us with a request. See, he’s been working on a 1/18th model of the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix racer, but has hit a brick wall in his research on the car: He has yet […]

Gene Herman, inspired by the recent post about Herb Miska’s great scratchbuilt models, recently sent us this story on another amazing scratchbuilder who chose to replicate a Pierce-Arrow dump truck. Gene writes: I feel very lucky to count amongst my friends a GENIUS scratchbuilder named Charlie Rowley. The quality of his work is good as […]