Roger Brown - Scale Modelling Now

Modelling

What first attracted you to Scale Modelling?
Balsa wood and plans of a Hawker Hunter

How long have you been scale modelling for?
60 years

Specialist area of Modelling?
Sci-fi scratch building

Preferred Scale?
1:20

What is your favourite real subject of all time (aircraft, armour or maritime)?
Horten Ho-229

The best thing you’ve ever built?
District 9 Drop Ship scratch build (GC: Roger’s excellent build is in the SMN SFF Area-Finished Now) PIC 1

And finally: Most memorable Modelling disaster
Closing up the fuselage halves on a P-47 and forgetting to fit the cockpit tub

How long have you been a reviewer for?
Five years (as of 2020)

What made you get involved with SMN?
Geoff and Sara Coughlin

What’s your favourite thing(s) about SMN?
Up to date reviews

Favourite SMN review?
Aaron’s 1:32 Horten 229

Sum yourself up in no more than five words.
Total sci-fi enthusiast

Biggest hobby/hobbies outside of Scale Modelling?
Abstract art

Favourite food/meal?
Pizza and a beer

Three famous people who you admire
Alan Turing, Barnes Wallis, Lewis Hamilton

And finally…tell us a (clean) joke…
My family made many sacrifices to provide me with a good education. Well they were Druids.

And one more joke…
We used to live in a windmill, not a very big windmill, but golf balls kept coming through the front door.

Roger B.