The entire model catalogue is now online


Thursday 06 of July 2023 (Ken)

All of my extant completed models are now accessible on the site, with photos and descriptive texts.

Although I started keeping a few records of my modelling from the late 1970s, it was not until 1987 that I started (and have continued) a proper modelling diary, documenting what I had done and the time spent on it. Also from about 1986-87, I started making simple hand-written lists of the changes I had made to models I completed. From about 2000, the lists morphed into typed Model Description Sheets on my PC.

In about 2020, I set about retrospectively writing these descriptions for every model I had ever built - based partly on my old hand-written notes, my diaries and other scattered records and partly from memory. During this process, I also created my chronological numbering systems for all my Projects and for the Finished Models. Though my first attempt at model photography was in 1981, I only really got going during 1988. Until 2007, all my model photos were analog, though from 2003, good quality digital versions were also supplied by the processor. Since 2007 I have used digital photography only. I keep all the digital images in Project files on my PC, including photos of the unbuilt kits, in-progress photos if I have any, plus research images I have found on the internet. In 2020, I made a concerted effort to photograph all of my models which I had not previously photographed. I did this simply to build up my own, computer-based photo album.

So, in 2022, when I decided I was going to create a website dedicated to my hobby, the model descriptions, photo collections and the chronology were already there to facilitate it. Nonetheless, I still needed to condense and rewrite the Model Descriptions to a shorter form (as the Model Biography screen-shots on Flickr), write introductions for categories and each model on Flickr and to do a massive amount of photo-editing / manipulation.

What remains to be done is to replace /augment the poorer quality photos and refine some of the Model Biographies. Also, now that I can get back to modelling, as I complete models I will add them to the site. I may also write in-box reviews occasionally and anything else to do with modelling that takes my fancy.

A big thanks to Chris who convinced me to use Flickr for the photo hosting platform and then set up the website itself. Without his know-how, none of this would exist.

Ken's Models (2023)