An interesting read for modelers with their morning coffee … or late evening cup! ;)
Ten years ago, I started a series of interviews with some of the most well-known online scale modelers. Back then, moDelnik was under a .com domain, which now is not avaiable.
Now, I’m working on bringing everything back: recreating the site, planning a recap of those interviews a decade later, and expanding with new interviews and fresh content. Wish me luck, and I wish you Happy Printing & Modeling!
Originally published: December 20, 2015
My father used to make models when I was young got it from him, my first kit was bought for me when I was 8 years old. Was an Arfix car in 1/32 scale.
Made it in 3 hours lol! Not one wheel pointing in the same direction, loads of glue all over it. I was proud of it, father wasn’t to happy but din’t care I injoyed every minute …
Originally published: December 19, 2015
My love of miniatures started in my childhood. I was an avid reader at the age of 5 and that enhanced my imagination a lot. So I dreamed of making the scenes I watched in my mind while reading the translated novels on a small scale.
In 2010, by chance, I stumbled across some kind of Balsa wood and immediately knew…
Originally published: December 16, 2015
Well, as I have it in my modeling biography…I started scale modeling at a very tender age. I have very fond memories spending hours, fascinated, watching my Uncle who was a brilliant modeler working away.
He started and showed me the way to the wonderful world of scale modeling at the age of 10 and I never looked back and my passion above any pastime in my life has always been scale modeling.
Originally published: December 13, 2015
When I was about 12, my Godfather brought back from the USSR the Russian legends as illustrated by Bilibin. Then my grandmother was a harsh anti communist and thought the Russians were the devil – and I always had some sympathies for the devil.
Then I was brought in an era when everybody thought it would vanish in a Nuclear Holocaust because of the Russians etc…
Originally published: December 04, 2015
When I was child I loved everything about history and soldiers. After I finished the University of Fine Arts I found a model kit in a bookstore. Very cheap, very stupid but that was my first model.
I became a model first and started to sculpt figures after that. I love figures, bought many of them to study how to sculpt and paint…
Originally published: December 2, 2015
It was back in my 2nd year of high school. A friend was into it and invited me to join him and learn. He was scratch-building mostly sci-fi things like Star Wars. I joined in, and he taught me how.
The material we used was old paper file folders. We were students and didn’t have money to buy kits, so…
