Small Is Beautiful Inspiration Gallery

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Show us your previous small scale builds.  

[Mjwomack]

Big in a small scale! The original Schiphol airport terminal building in 1/400 scale 

 

Cardboard download (I kept a copy if anyone wants the pdf)

[PhantomBigStu]

I specialise in turning 1/144 kits into 1/1 scale rubbish, here are three I somehow didn't ruin 

Tornado GR1

Revell B767-300 Tanker WHIF and Eurofighter 

 

Edited June 26 by PhantomBigStu

[Mjwomack]

How could I forget this! Good things come in small packages and this is a joyous mojo restorer

 

 

[Marklo]

Did a quick count and I have 27 builds below 1/72. So here are a few images.

 

F18 1/144 Revell

 

Apache 1/144 Revell

 

Horsa 1/144 Scratchbuilt 

1/144 Tornado special hobby

 

1/144 He111 Roden

 

1/144 B17 Academy 

 

1/350 Olympic converted from Revell Titanic

1/144 Rafale Revell

 

1/144 Mirage F1 Revell

 

1/100 Mirage IV Heller

 

1/144 F10 Tigershark Airfix

1/144 F14 Revell

 

1/144 F4 Academy 

1/144 F4 Academy 

 

1/196 Arc 10 Revell

 

1/288 Soace Shuttle and 747 almost finished Academy

1/144 Mig 29 Revell

 

1/144 Hp Heracles almost finished Airfix

 

1/144 Mig 32 Academy 

 

1/144 Mig 25 Revell

 

1/144 Mig 29 Revell

1/144 Mig 23 Academy 

 

1/? Imperial Star Destroyer Revell

1/196 X-Wing Revell

1/1000 Spice Harvester Meng

 

 

 

 

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

32 minutes ago, Mjwomack said:

How could I forget this! Good things come in small packages and this is a joyous mojo restorer

 

 

 

I'll see your Viscount...

 

 

...and raise a Trident.

 

[ErikT]

Here are a few of mine, all 1/144 scale (the best scale!).  Looks like I'll have to pull out a set for this group build!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TimJ]

Revell 1/144 Tornado ECR

 

DSCF2121 by timothy jones, on Flickr

[marvinneko]

Xmas 2023 Blitzbuild... Avia B.534 from Eduard

 

 

 

Three more in the box...🤔

[ArnoldAmbrose]

       G'day All, although I'm usually a ship modeler I've sometimes dabbled elsewhere.

Yonks and yonks ago I crudely scratch built some aircraft from plywood and balsa in 1/250 scale.

From left to right:- F-111C swept, F-15, SR-71, F-18, F-111C extended and RA-5C Vigilante (the first).

 

And more recently some even more crudely scratch built in polystyrene in 1/600 scale. I won't show all of those here, just some.

 

Vought Corsair and Supermarine Spitfire:-

 

Grumman F7F Tigercat:-

 

Nakajima Hayabusa Ki-43 Oscar:-

 

Bristol Beaufighter:-

 

And some German aircraft still under construction, Bf 109T and Ju87 Stukas:-

The squares on the cutting mat are 1cm a side.

 

Regards, Jeff.

[Marklo]

1/144 YF22

 

1/144 YF23
 

1/144 Typhoon

 

1/144 Typhoon

 

1/144 TSR2 3D print still in WIP

 

1/144 F16

 

1/144 F16

 

1/144 F117

1/144 Berkut

 

[gwyndaffandy]

1/144 Pit road Panzer IVs as 1/6 scale radio control tanks. 
 

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

6 hours ago, gwyndaffandy said:

1/144 Pit road Panzer IVs as 1/6 scale radio control tanks. 
 

 

 

 

How superbly meta is this?!?!?!     

[Graham Boak]

I thought "meta" was a synonym for rubbish?

[gwyndaffandy]

12 hours ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

 

How superbly meta is this?!?!?!     

Thanks…. I think.🤔😀

[stevej60]

Morning folk's again I'll keep it short as only one other small scale build ever completed ICM,TU144.

 

 

[bianfuxia]

Some of my 1/144 collection:

 

 

Supersonic corner.

 

There's a Concorde, obviously, and SR-71 and B-58, some lifting bodies, a pair of X-3s, some random Soviet test types, a paper project for a supersonic Harrier, and the little one far in the back is a non-supersonic test plane called the Hummingbird. 

[marvinneko]

On 28/06/2025 at 09:32, gwyndaffandy said:

1/144 Pit road Panzer IVs as 1/6 scale radio control tanks. 

 

What would make this even more entertaining would be the figure of a little boy standing outside the barrier rope with a pout and his arms crossed...

[gwyndaffandy]

2 hours ago, marvinneko said:

 

What would make this even more entertaining would be the figure of a little boy standing outside the barrier rope with a pout and his arms crossed...

Or a bored girlfriend…..

I did try to find a suitable audience but with no joy. I know that Masterbox has a range of 1/24 figures (I am halfway through making the one that looks like me) but if any one knows of anything suitable I don’t mind adding to it.

[ModelingEdmontonian]

Sweet Hurricanes, P-51s, P-47s, Bf 109, and Wildcats; Platz P-51s and P-47s; and one Zvezda Hurricane:

 

Edited June 30 by ModelingEdmontonian

[hakkikt]

Type 212A submarine, Revell kit, 1/144.  I made a few improvements to the instruments and the lights on the side of the sail, and added 1/144 figures from NATO maintenance personnel.
The "old leather" effect of the surface was achieved by blackbasing, i.e. dense spotting of the top colour on a black base coat, with the paint more thinned as the layers add up.

 

 

 

[Brad]

A couple of mine;

 

Airfix 1/76 Bloodhound missile.

 

 

Bronco 1/350 Type IX U boat.

 

[gwyndaffandy]

Another one of mine from a few years back, the Airfix 1/76 recovery set, some Dapol 1/76 railway stuff. In the window of the model shop are 2x 1/700 planes from a Trumpeter aircraft carrier that sadly never sailed. Please ignore the 1/72 Airfix 109 for this group build. 
 

 

 

 

[zebra]

Quite a lot of my modelling for the past few years has been in 1/144 so there are too many to share here, but here are my highlights:

 

Amodel Tu-104A - from my first ever group build:

 

Anigrand Convair Tradewind:

 

EC-24A and NKC-135A - Minicraft kits with 3D-printed conversion. Shame I got the grey wrong!

 

BAC 1-11-500 - Airfix kit, stretched, 26 decals:

 

VietJet A320 - Zvezda with Lima November decals:

 

Il-76LL - Zvezda, 3D printed engine, custom decals:

 

Tu-154M - Zvezda, custom decals:

 

Roden C-133 Cargomaster:

 

Honeywell 757 testbed - Zvezda, 3D printed engine and custom decals:

 

X-Scale Trident 1C:

 

Eastern Express Viscount:

 

X-Scale DC-8:

 

AMP SOFIA 747SP:

 

And finally, Manx and Braniff 1-11s - EE kits with 3D printed engines:

 

 

 

 

[Adam Poultney]

I have so many I could add here!

A full set of V bombers.... wouldn't it be nice if it was a 1/144 Vulcan B1 instead of a B2 for the full early set...

 

Speaking of... A Vulcan B1! Converted from a Cyberhobby Vulcan B1 (1/200)

 

The Victor B1 previously shown, with a Victor B2.R

 

A pair of Beacon Models models

 

A very old Valiant kit

 

The easier Roden He111

 

A tiny Tupolev (1/360 iirc)

 

A less tiny (1/144) Tu144

 

A Vulcan

 

Shockingly, another Vulcan

 

An unusually marked Vulcan