Model Craft

Marcus Nicholls is one of the world’s great modelers and specializes in detailing, painting and finishing techniques.

Marcus Nicholls is one of the world’s great modelers and specializes in detailing, painting and finishing techniques. In this program he demonstrates his amazing skills in painting and finishing model buildings for dioramas. From stone farm buildings to European brick and Middle East concrete Marcus shows in detail how to finish the basic structures to show truly realistic results.

Geoff Illsley is one of the world’s finest airbrush painters. In this program he reveals the secret of his success and in super close-up detail he shows us the essential skills necessary to achieve completely realistic results to award winning standards.

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform.

Geoff Illsley is one of the world’s finest airbrush painters. In this program he reveals the secret of his success and in super close-up detail he shows us the essential skills necessary to achieve completely realistic results to award winning standards.

Many aviation modelers struggle to achieve true realism in some of the finer details of aircraft modeling and they will appreciate some sound advice from a master modeler.

World ranked author and award-winning modeler Richard Windrow is a pioneer in the field of terrain modeling and has invented countless new techniques in his quest to create the perfect setting for models of all types.
Frequently undervalued by otherwise excellent craftsmen, the importance of terrain in model presentation cannot be over-estimated. In this programme one of the world's finest exponents shows us how to model truly realistic landscapes from woodland groundwork, trees, grasses and vegetation of various types, rocks, ice and snow to broken buildings and brick strewn urban wreckage.

Geoff Illsley is one of the world’s finest airbrush painters. In this program he reveals the secret of his success and in super close-up detail he shows us the essential skills necessary to achieve completely realistic results to award winning standards. In Airbrush Painting Techniques Geoff illustrates the selection, stripping and cleaning of airbrush equipment and shows how to choose, thin and mix paint for airbrush loading.

In this Expert Modelcraft programme award-winning modeler Graham Dunbar-Brown demonstrates the skill of building and detailing a Henschel production Jagdtiger tank kit from the box to the finished battle scarred veteran “X2” that surrendered at Iserlohn in April 1945.
In high quality close-up detail we see the process of detaching and cleaning the parts, assembling the tools, paints and glues, kit assembly with additional detailing, washing, painting and spraying, texturing and weathering.

American Craft celebrates the modern makers who shape the world around us. Presenting unknown innovators and artistic stalwarts, American Craft connects the disparate worlds of art, industry, fashion, architecture and design, giving an entirely new voice to the craft community.

American Craft celebrates the modern makers who shape the world around us. Presenting unknown innovators and artistic stalwarts, American Craft connects the disparate worlds of art, industry, fashion, architecture and design, giving an entirely new voice to the craft community.