Peter Gillson is a modeler who lives on the Island of Guernsey in the English Channel, between England and France. (“A relatively small island about 24 square miles, but quite populated—about 65,000 people, and unusually, at least in the U.K., we still have an independent model shop,” he notes.) Now in his early sixties, Peter made models in the 1970s and returned to the hobby about 20 years ago. “My ‘problem’ is that I have not settled on one scale of type of subject; sometimes I scratch build 1/10 busts, make or convert 1/35 or 54mm figures and dioramas or 1/35 military vehicles and even dabble in 1/285 scale dioramas!” he writes. Pictured immediately below is his latest diorama of a submersible discovering the wreck of a U-Boat, which is six inches long and about 1/144th scale. “I built the U Boat then wrecked it using a Dremel tool to make the holes,” he writes. “Crunched breakfast cereal was glued on it using pva glue then painted to represent the growth which occurs over time. The submersible is scratchbuilt with a small LED fitted into it, the cable of which comes out if the back. This was laid alongside a length of thin wire; both were then covered in heat-shrink tubing which was shrunk around both of them. This served three purposes; to represent the submersible's umbilical cable, provide the power to the light, and enable the submersible to ‘float’ in the middle of the box, as if it were in water.” A sampling of Peter’s older work follows below.