The Model Philosopher
by Chris Meddings
Latest episode
Episode 24: Creating and Recreating with Evi Van Der Vorst
Episode 24: Creating and Recreating with Evi Van Der Vorst
About this podcast
a scale model podcast all about how we look at the hobby, concepts of the hobby and why we do it
Episodes
The newest 20 of 25 episodes
- Episode 24: Creating and Recreating with Evi Van Der Vorst · 57 min · Episode 25in this episode Chris talks to Evi Van Der Vorst of @EviVanDerVorstScenic, about creativity and recreating, props, movies and texturesChris also talks about authorship and how we…
- Special Episode: The Upturner Prize for Art in Modelling · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 24In this episode Chris Launches the Upturner Prize for Art in Modelling and Miniature and talks to the judges for the prize: Tue Kaae, Marijn van Gils, Calvin Tan, and Robert…
- Episode 23: Miniatures with Alex Friedrich · 1 h 21 min · Season 2 Episode 23In this Episode, Chris talks to Alex Friedrich about his modelling, his movie miniature work on movies from Tarantino to Wes Anderson, and his trip to Pripyat
- Episode 22, "originality" with Fet Milner and Mikkel Frederiksen · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 22In this episode Chris brings you another head to head interview where he steps back and lets two artists hold their own conversation and interview each otherThis time its Fet…
- Episode 21 "What Can We Learn From Art?" With Tracy Hancock · 2 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 21in this episode, Chris is reunited with one of the Sprue Cutters Union hosts; Tracy Hancock, to talk about what modellers might be able to learn from art
- Episode 20: Politics, Modelling, and Homeopathic Nazis, with Matt McDougall · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 20In this episode, Chris talks to Matt McDougall following Matt’s recent blog about Politics and Modelling.
- Episode 19 "Focus on the Subject", with Jon Bryon · 1 h 25 min · Season 2 Episode 19In this Episode Chris talks to Jon Byron about modelling without a story, focussing purely on a subject
- Episode 18: Individualism with Fet Milner · 1 h 9 min · Episode 18in this episode, Chris talks to Fet Milner, about making something different, tall chairs, and ambition in storytelling Please support our…
- Episode 17: Perfectionism - With Chloé Plattner · 1 h 24 min · Season 2 Episode 17In this Episode Chris talks to modelling polymath and queen of precision, presentation and craft, Chloé Plattner Please support our Sponsors! https://Anyz/io…
- Episode 16: Robert Karlsson · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 16In this Episode, the first of season 2 of the Model Philosopher, Chris interviews figure painter Robert Karlsson. They talk contrasting temperature texture and colour, focussing…
- Episode 15: New Year Reflections · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 15In this episode Chris talks about modelling in review from 2024, the broader hobby, and our own reflections from listeners on what we have done and what we want to do in 2024…
- Breaking the Rules, with Jonlyn Lippert, Creepingforscalemodes · 1 h 16 min · Season 1 Episode 14In this Episode Chris talks to Jonlyn Lippert, AKA Creepingforscalemodels about Breaking the Rules, challenging what we accept and do not accept in scale modelling.They also talk…
- Episode 13: Collaborations, with Nikolas Triantafillou and Christos Apostolopoulos · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 13In this episode, Chris talks to Nikolas Triantafillou and Christos Apostolopoulos, winners of gold models in figures masters at SMC, about their recent collaboration on two piece…
- Episode 12 - How they Make the Difference: Scale Model Challenge After-show with Robert Crombeecke · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 12in this Episode Chris talks to Robert Crombeecke about Scale Model Challenge 2024 and changes coming in 2025They discuss the successes of this years show, and how to maintain the…
- Learning & Development in Modelling, with Robert Lane · 1 h 19 min · Episode 11in this Episode Chris talks to Robert Lane, chief sculptor and owner at Elan 13 (https://elan13.co.uk/) about learning and developing your modelling and yourself in the…
- Episode 10 "Making the Difference" Scale Model Challenge: with Robert Crombeecke, Fabrizio Russo, and Ivan Cocker · 1 h 18 min · Episode 10in this episode, Chris discusses judging ordnance and figures, and the philosophy of the contest at Scale Model Challenge https://scalemodelchallenge.com with Head Ordnance Judge…
- Episode 9: Kosmotroniks, with Harry Arling · 47 min · Episode 9in this Episode, Chris talks to modeller and gallery artist, Harry Arling, Creator of Kosmotroniks https://www.kosmotroniks.com/You can find Harry on his site, or on facebook as…
- Episode 8, Storytelling, with Marijn van Gils and Barry Biediger · 2 h 1 min · Episode 8In this episode, Chris takes a step back and invites Marijn van Gils and Barry Biediger to interview each other on the subject of the Story in modelling.You can find Marijn here…
- Episode 7: David Parker, on Realism · 1 h 30 min · Episode 7In this episode, Chris talks to David Parker, publisher, author and scratchbuilding master, now scratchprinting master, about bringing heightened levels of realism to modelling…
- Episode 6 - Colour Pt.2 with Tue Kaae · 1 h 7 min · Episode 6In this Episode, your host, Chris Meddings, speaks to Tue Kaae to get a Figure painter's view on colour. Tue talks about how to frame elements with colour, directing gaze: using…
