On The Bench
Hosted by Dave · David Goldfinch: Podcaster, Model Builder
4.8from 319 ratings
- 255
- Episodes
- 42
- Transcribed
- 319
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About On The Bench
A podcast designed for the scale modeller talking about all aspects of the hobby of scale model building. So if you build aircraft, ships, armour, figures, science fiction, space, automotive or fantasy then is podcast is for you.
- Publisher
- David Goldfinch: Podcaster, Model Builder
- Category
- leisure · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Jul 2017
- Latest episode
- 26 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
42 of 255 episodes have a transcript.
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
OTB 247: Bushranger 2027. A new model exhibition!
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
OTB 246: Armour and Tankraft
29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
OTB 245: Scale effect.
Inside a recent episode
OTB 247: Bushranger 2027. A new model exhibition!
Published 26 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Let's look at aircraft. I mean, if you can truly replicate, say, a thud, for example, from the Vietnam War, where it's got all that patina on the paint and burnt away at the... aft end where the can is really hot and the sort of aging of the aircraft i mean that could be done that that's that to me is a wow factor because that's also a technical skill too yeah it is it's technical you know me with wow would be like i've never seen it before would love to see it one day at a hobby show is like a dire uh an aircraft displayed strafing something um mid-flight i think a lot of A lot of the so-called blandness and the lack of wow factor comes from the different divisions and how it funnels people into aircraft, into cars, into tanks. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on On The Bench
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Christiaan O'Dea
- Brad Belsheim
- John Bonanni
- Rob Riv
- John "Spud" Murphy
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,882,151
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 185 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 134 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 67
Contact On The Bench
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Questions about On The Bench
Who hosts On The Bench?
Dave host the show. Published by David Goldfinch: Podcaster, Model Builder.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does On The Bench take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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