If there is a theme running through this issue, it is that you don't always have to rely on kits or the after-market to provide you with what you need to get a job done. Sometimes, you can build what you need from scratch and make something truly original along the way! Historically, our great hobby began with building models from scratch, using raw materials to create a reasonable facsimile of a full sized object, machine, or structure. Of course, over the years, this has been made more and more redundant, the advent of kits and smaller accessory sets helping to recreate almost everything that you could ever need. But of course, there are always holes in the lists of available replicas, holes that will only ever be plugged by those willing to dive in and build something for themselves - just as we can see in this issue. Amongst the features published this month that concern themselves with kit-built projects (Alan Firbank's Sea Vixen and Dai Williams' Snow Tiger), we have a number of items that include scratch-built models to a greater or lesser degree. Per Olav Lund's 'Ragnarok' includes a stunningly rendered bridge that he's assembled from little more than Styrofoam, Plasticard and details from the spares box.
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