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Articles about cleaning relics, preserving items, my miniature modelling, relic-art and anything else that doesn`t fit the other categories.

Russia 1943. 1/16

1/16 figure from Mitches Military Models, painted with acrylics and oils. It depicts a fancy Fallschirmjäger officer somewhere in Russia

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Jan 23, 20201 min read

Bjerkvik 1940. 1/16

This 1/16 scale figure from Alpine Miniatures I ve painted with acrylics and oils, and I mounted it on a mortar grenade fragment

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Jan 23, 20201 min read

Strassenkampf. Berlin `45 1/35

"Strassenkampf. Berlin`45" A Heer officer trying to take control of a street together with a couple of SS soldiers. Scale 1/35.

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Dec 11, 20191 min read

Soviet Officer, Berlin 1945 1/16

The sculpting and casting is very good so very little clean up was needed. The parts fitted perfectly together with a few tiny gaps only to

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Aug 18, 20191 min read

Willys MB 1943 Restoration

My friend and colleague Gary Kostka have spent the last few years restoring an old War Machine and the result is amazing.

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Jul 27, 20192 min read

Invasion in the North. 1940. 1/35

"Invasion in the North.1940". 1/35. The last figure I completed this weekend. Mounted on a fragment of a British navy shell fired on German

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Feb 12, 20191 min read

Newspaper Kiosk 1/35

I recently completed this Newspaper Kiosk project. It is a lasercut cardboard kit made by Plus Model,

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Dec 30, 20181 min read

Cups of Sorrow

I took three of the best looking cups and prepared them to become dioramas. I wanted to keep them simple but at the same time to tell

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Sep 9, 20181 min read

Expedition Van VW T4

I wanted a van I could use for my expeditions and for going on markets etc with so I began looking at "minicamper" solutions on the internet

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May 30, 20181 min read

T.Mi.43 Cut Away

I had this relic T.Mi.43 laying around, and a part of it was quite damaged. I decided to make something cool with it rather than get rid of

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May 15, 20171 min read

Ypres 1/35

With the WW1 diorama kit from Masterbox I had what I needed to "improve"this relic a bit.The model kit comes with a section of a trench

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Apr 22, 20172 min read

Viking Church

Some time ago I bought this wood model kit in 1/87 scale, the "Gol"Stavechurch made by Dusek. The kit has lots of thin parts which had a

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Apr 21, 20171 min read

T34-85 "Kurzeme 1946"

The scene would be a knocked out machine of war a year after the guns fell silent on the Kurland battlefields. I wanted to try making alot

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Jul 29, 20152 min read

Cleaning rust with electrolysis

Cleaning rust from a relic is fairly simple. First of all you need a source of DC current, car battery charger works the best.

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Jun 15, 20153 min read

The Legenda Book!!

Since it is the World Book Day today I thought it was time to officially break the news about the book project I`ve been working on for the

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Apr 23, 20152 min read

Mg Schütze Reg.Norge

This is a project I wanted to do for many years, and finally I braved up and started it. I saw a photo in W.Tieke`s book "Tragödie um die...

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Jan 15, 20156 min read

Preserving relics

Having found and dug up a nice relic , brought it home and rinsed off the dirt and cleaned it up using oxalic acid or electrolysis

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Feb 24, 20142 min read

Removing rust from helmets

I wonder how many good helmets have been destroyed in attempts to remove rust from them. I personally saw to that three helmets turned black

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Jan 31, 20142 min read

A Museum for the Museum

One day at work there inspiration struck me. I had an idea for a small single figure vignette representing a museum.

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Dec 18, 20133 min read