Fantastic Plastic

I gained access to a little model making shed in Oxford at the tender age of eight. Many hours days were squandered in that stuffy little hut. My initial attempts were pitiful -- military vehicles that looked like they'd been cocooned by marauding glue-based lifeforms for an episode of Doctor Who.

I eventually improved my manual dexterity and built up a reasonable immunity to glue fumes. I also picked up a few tricks of the trade (in a nutshell: open the damn window, less glue is best, pins and toothpicks work wonderfully to apply glue in hard to reach spots, and remember to put the pin down before scratching one's nose).

Maybe this explains: (a) why I have a soft spot for plastic models, and (b) why I'm not a Nobel prizewinner.

"Fantastic Plastic is a scale modeling site that celebrates the weird, the wonderful, the odd, the radical, the exotic and the just plain cool air- and spacecraft designs that have been captured in styrene (and resin) over the past half century. From bizarre WWII-era "project planes" to the latest sci-fi concepts, here is a chronicle of Man's highest aspirations as expressed through his flying machines, both real and imagined."

Visit Fantastic Plastic (don't forget to browse their online store, which features some "never before released" limited edition designs.)