Scratch Building Sci Fi Models Tutorial

Advanced Tips - Adding Seatbelts Using Milliput

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 16:31

Did you know that you can use the milliput also to scratchbuild your own seat belts?

Advanced tips - How To: 5 point Seat Belt Harness

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 14:59

Tape, PE, patience and your own seat belts will come to life

Advanced Tips - Scratch Building Engine Deck Screens

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 14:47

If you love scratchbuilding you will love these tips

Advanced Tips - Weld Seams for armors

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/25/2017 - 17:27

Wanna truly realistic weld seams on your armors? Everything you need to know, in this 2 min. tutorial.

Advanced Tips - Scratchbuild a set of Schurzen

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/25/2017 - 17:22

Schurzen are common on WWII German tanks, but not always the kit include them. Here the remedy.

Working with Styrene - making realistic stacks/elbows

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/23/2017 - 11:27

Scratchbuilding time, with some useful tips to reproduce stacks and elbows.

Advanced Tips - How to enhance and paint exhaust pipes

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 22:05

A great tutorial, with some useful tricks to enhance and paint exhaust pipes

Back to Basics - How To Drill Bits for Models

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 22:00

Drilling bits... easy no? But wait... are we forgetting something?

Warhammer 40K: scratchbuild track for a Baneblade tank

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 15:35

If you are a Warhammer perfectionist, you will like to scratchbuild the best tracks around for your Baneblade tanks.

Scratchbuilding Windows in 1/35 scale

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 14:53

Do you need a window for your next dio? Here how to build it by yourself from scratch

Advanced Tips - Engraving Rounded Shapes

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 12:27

Some more tips and tricks to add to our scratch-builders arsenals, this time dedicated to engraving round shapes

Diorama World - Modelling Doors and Doors Frames

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/10/2017 - 12:18

A simple tutorial showing how to easily scratchbuild a door and a door's frame to add in any of your diorama projects

Advanced Tips - How to Sculpt your own Stowages

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/10/2017 - 12:08

Fron the guys at Scale War Machine, a useful tutorial about how to sculpt your own stowage from putties like Milliput, Duro & Tamiya Quick Type.

Advanced Tips - Bending Styrene for Roll Cages

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 14:00

Doctor's Kranky shows us how to eay bend styrene for applications like roll cages.

Diorama World - How to scratchbuild Windows

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 11:08

Need a window for your diorama's buildings or to add some debris on the ground? Here a way to scratchbuild it.

Working With Styrene - Cutting Tubes

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 10:49

Doing a clean cut on a styrene tube requires some care, and there are various tools and techniques to do it.

Advanced Tips -Scratchbuild Spaceship Models on a Budget

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 22:31

That's amazing what you can do just with styrene and your imagination... Look carefully this guy bringing to life a model from nothing...

Balsa Foam - Review and HowTo

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 21:57

A new kind of material, that can turn out to be very useful in many scratchbuilding jobs, reviewed by the friends of Flory Models

Advanced Tips - Scratch building tank tracks

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 12:28

I would say just for specific project and reserved only to experienced (and patient ! ) modelers.

Advanced Tips - Making weld line on scale model

Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 21:05

Not all the armor kits have weld line well reproduced, when present in the original. But with a little of work we can easily reproduce them.

Back to Basics - Cutting Styrene for ScratchBuilding

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 17:12

Just follow some simple rules, and all your cuts in a styrene surface will be perfect !

Full Scratchbuilt Sci Fi GR-56 Spacecraft

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 16:46

Amazing what you can do with basi scratch building techniques... have a look by yourself in this 6 min. long videobuild.

Advanced Tips - Making landing lights from scratch

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 15:42

Some kits doesn't have them at all; some have but very crappy... Let's see how to scratchbuild perfect landing lights for our models.

Advanced Tips - Diamond Tread Tire Pattern HowTo

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/12/2016 - 14:23

How to cut a pattern for a diamond tread model aircraft tire? This is a brief video outline of how Paul Budzik managed it.

Diorama World: Scratchbuilding a Dock or Bridge in Wood

Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 15:08

Great tutorial showing step by step how to build from scratch, and paint, a dock or small bridge made with wood.

Back to Basics - Styrene fundamentals for modelers

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/14/2016 - 12:47

Basics of plastic modeling with styrene or polystyrene, including vacuum forming, gluing, solvent welding cutting and sanding, filing

Advanced Tips: altering structural dimensions of a model

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 15:48

It is not accurate, 3 mm too short! Well, if you truly need to alter the dimensions of an un-accurate kit, follow the Paul Budzik suggestions!

Advanced Tips: Measuring Tools for Scale Modelers

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 15:00

Paul Budzik shows us how to use in the proper way the measuring tools used in our hobby, like the digital caliper.

Back to Basics: Detailing and Painting the cockpit

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 16:13

Very well done video-tutorial, presenting in 14 minutes all the steps to detail and paint a pro-looking cockpit (no aftermarkets here!)

Masterworks: scratchbuilding step by a futuristic car

Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/08/2016 - 18:26

A futuristic steam punk car, fully scratchbuilt step by steo: a masterwork that you cannot miss!

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There are tons and tons of video-tutorials about scale models, dispersed on the Net. But only a few are truly worth to watch. We select the best and only the best video-tutorials: building, detailing, painting, weathering, dioramas and more.

We just finished to tag all the videos in our archives, and the first results is here: a selection of tutorials about the weathering in scale models: all what you need to know to give to your models the perfect dirty or dusty or rusty look!