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A humble styrene addict from the Washington, DC, area. I build whatever catches my eye. Recently, I've been trying my hand at applying armor weathering techniques to Gundam models, with surprising results.
Pain-free. Go slow, enjoy the build and mind the gunsight glass so the carpet monster doesn't eat it.
The blue decal for the spinner is poorly sized and if you use it, the decal won't conform no matter what decal setting solution you use. [...]
Mittens are all the rage on the internet right now, so I'll get in on the action and post this, the 1/48 Zvezda Yak-130 "Mitten"
Originally a joint project between Aermacchi (now Leonardo) and Yakovlev for a subsonic jet trainer [...]
Full writeups of these will come in due time. Why do I have a feeling I'm going to have the same amount of free time in 2021?
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Hobbyboss produced three kits of the AN-2, the AN-2V, the AN-2M and AN-2CX. The AN-2M is a specialized agricultural variant with a hermetically sealed cockpit and the squared-off rudder, so being one who wants a little more bang for their [...]
The Leopard C2 MEXAS is an upgrade of an upgrade of an upgrade. No, really! Leopard tanks in Canada began with the C1, which was essentially the 1A3. The C1 was upgraded to C2; several C1s were fitted with the Modular Expandable Armor [...]
The Abrams tank has always been a challenge for me to model. I've never had a happy time building these, being so infuriated by the old Dragon offering with the separate guide teeth on their floppy, rubbery tracks that I didn't even bother [...]
Straight outta World of Tanks, it's the IS-7!
This is an absurd vehicle, and it was too absurd even for the post-GPW Soviet Army, which rightly rejected it.
But WHAT IF...?
So, I guess this needs a backstory? What if a mass uprising of [...]
This tank is the evolutionary dead end of Soviet heavy tanks. Some people mark the IS-4 or IS-7 as the final example of eastern bloc heavy tanking, but the T-10M has the distinction of being the last of the dinosaurs to shuffle off to the [...]
Hobbyboss 1/48
Begemot stencils
Foxbot Decals
J's Work masks
Wolfpack bang seat
A quarantine-build that didn't really "fight" me, but it did struggle a bit.
The kit goes together pretty smoothly. No huge steps or areas where you [...]
The AMX30B is an odd duck. Contemporary tank designs favored increasing armor thickness and radical sloping to defeat anti-armor shells of increasing caliber, but the AMX design has almost no armor to speak of-- offering sufficient [...]
