Models custom-built to your exact specification
If you don't find the model you are looking for here pre-built, just contact me with the details of the model and spec you are looking for and I will give you a price.
- Choose the exact version you want (as long as there's a kit!)
- Add any detailing sets you want to include
- Choose the markings /decals you want
- Choose the level of weathering - factory fresh or war-worn!
Welcome to ScaleModelMaker.co.uk. My name is Colin Higton, and all the kits you will find here were built by me here in the UK.
I enjoy building models and work hard to make my finished kits 'look right', weathering the models to reflect their role in whichever conflict they served in.
My particular interest is in military aircraft, but as you will see I also build tanks and other vehicles as well. Whatever I build, for me the enjoyment is in the build rather than the finished kit, and I simply don't have space to display all my finished models - so I prefer to sell them on for others to enjoy.
I also build to order - so if you would like your aircraft or vehicle in a different scheme, or are looking for a particular vehicle just contact me for a price. Costs will be similar to the builds here - depending on any detailing kits etc you want to include.
Anyway - have a look round and I hope you enjoy the site.
Recent builds from the workshop
B-29 Enola Gay
I couldn’t believe my luck when a customer in America asked me not only to build the Enola Gay B-29 for him – but to build it in 1/48th scale! I always looked at the old 1/72 scale Airfix kit as a kid and wanted to build it – but the bare metal finish and…
Supermarine Spitfire MkIX – Museum Build
Really looking forward to this build – it’s a great story to tell of Flying Officer Arnold Hallas. He came from Burton and was sadly killed when he was flying Spitfire IX NH231 coded UF-A with 601 Sqn on the 30th April 1945. His is believed to be the last Spitfire lost in the European…
Vought Corsair F-4U
When I got this enquiry from a customer in the US I was immediately intrigued. Robert wanted to commission a build from me for the family of his business partner which they all thought would make a perfect gift for their Father. Robert had seen my F4 Corsair on Etsy and liked the way I…
Bolton Paul Defiant
This is the new 1/48 kit from Airfix – and initially I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to make it as the Defiant isn’t really a plane that has ever been on my radar (no pun intended). It always seemed to be something of a Chimaera – the love child of a Hrricane and some…
Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8
This kit from Hasegawa has one of the most beautiful box-art images I have ever seen – as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to build that model! There is something about the proportions of the FW190 with the radial engine that is just perfect. It doesn’t have the graceful beauty of…
Short Sunderland Mk I
I was really excited when I saw this kit released by Italeri. The Sunderland is one of the iconic aircraft I wanted to build, but until this point the only real option would be the old 1/72 kit from Airfix with all the attendent problems like poor fit and raised panel lines. The new tooling…
Supermarine Stranraer
I built this kit after finishing the Sunderland flying boat – so it was prompted by an interest in flying boats and a masochistic desire to do more rigging. This is one of the very few biplanes I have built, but it was fun to do in the same way that poking a mouth ulcer…
Focke Wulf Fw189 A2
This kit is from Great Wall Hobbies, and is the only one of their kits I have built. The FW-189 is a very striking looking aircraft with a twin boom – which I really like as an aircraft format. I think my fondness is due at least in part to the fact that 2 was…
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