My modelmaking journey

I am a 20-something year old modelmaker from Croatia. I've been modelmaking for the better part of my life, since I was roughly 12 years old - my first kit was a Revell 1/72 Nieuport N.28 C-1 and I built it in record time of 30 minutes! You can guess how it looked... Since then, I've built almost every type of model, with the exception of a train.

My preferred scales for planes are 1/144 and 1/48, and armour 1/35.

Since March 2019, I've also volunteered as a mod on the r/modelmakers subreddit. It should be obvious which one I am heh

Achievements

Over the years, I've participated on a number of competitions, both in Croatia and abroad and I've gathered a few medals on some of them. Since my memory is crap and barely any Croatian competitions have an online results archive before 2020, and even less have a year and name of the competition stamped on the medal, this list is rather incomplete.

Gold medal

1/144 A5M4 "From China to Sōryū" - Zagreb Cup 2023

1/144 Fw 190D-9 - Zagreb Cup 2024

1/144 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. D - Zagreb Cup 2022

Silver medal

1/144 A5M4 "From China to Sōryū" - Festung 2023

1/700 IJN Mutsuki - Zagreb Cup 2025.

Bronze medal

1/144 MiG-21bisD "25 godina" - Black Queen 2023

1/35 T-55A "Crna Legija" - Zagreb Cup 2025

1/144 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. D - KupKa 2026

1/144 A6M3 mod. 32 „Koepang“ - SVM Pivka 2026