All about AFV and related military model making.
Anybody who ever does armor, no matter what level of intensity, is sooner or later going to confront doing a Tiger (the ugliest tank ever created, IMO). This is mine from the summer of 2006:
History:
Despite the decision to mass produce [...]
Greetings to all forum members.
On this occasion I wanted to show you a project that I quickly realized in the last weeks.
Going through my boxes, I found an old Italeri kit: the M8 "Greyhound" armored vehicle. It is a kit that [...]
Hi guys,
Another IDF M-113 version. this time it's the excellent M-163 kit by Academy in 1/35+ Legend "Machbet" conversion kit.
"Machbet" in Hebrew means: racket.
Have a great weekend!
Tamiya 1/48 Sherman Firefly IC
Since the first two armor articles have been well-received, here's another from back in 2006: the Tamiya Sherman Firefly IC.
The British and Commonwealth forces first received the M-4 medium tank in 1942,in [...]
Since the Sherman was so popular, here's another armor review from a few years back.
After the war, German tank expert Hasso von Manteuffel told Basil Liddell-Hart that, "Tanks must be fast. That, I would say, is the most important [...]
A review from 2006.
The Original "Black Panthers":
Much is made in military history about how the Sherman tank was outclassed by its opponents, with the unstated message being it was a second-rate armored vehicle which only ended [...]
I grabbed this $13 Tamiya kit off the shelf intending it to be a weekend build. It turned into a week full of evenings building and experimenting with preshading, Tamiya putty, Vallejo pigments and oil washes. It's amazing the difference [...]
A type of German Navy rangefinder in a armourd dome and the small armourd lookout .
As used for the Heavy coastal batteries on the atlantikwall,
some where on a concrete tower and other on the roof of a special type of bunker .
Dome [...]
My first wholly 2021 build--bought, started and finished this year. This is another great Tamiya kit. What more to say?
I included Monsieur Le Commandant de Char to give a sense of the size of this petite 2-man tank. The peculiar [...]
This is the 1/48 Tamiya U.S. Army 2.5 ton 6x6 Cargo Truck, and the Mister Craft 1/48 Piper Cub.
The model deplicts the transportation of Piper Cubs in the days following the D-day landings as they were brought off the large landing ships. [...]
