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70 year old Englishman living in north east China (teaching English). Lifelong plastic kit constructor, especially like F1 cars, racing motorcycles, 1/35 military WWII models, and an aircraft every now and then.
Back in 2014 my friend Jack Mugan @camaro1 posted his build of this kit, it was his first, and, as far as I know, his only motorcycle kit. In fact, Jack was the first person to post a WIP thread on the then new Automotive group. I [...]
Yes, folks, it’s another Tamiya 1/12 scale motorcycle kit, this time, to give it its full name, it’s the Honda CBR 1000RR-R Fireblade SP, one of Tamiya’s more recent offerings.
Here’s an excerpt from the instructions giving the [...]
As it was a beautiful sunny morning I wheeled out the Ninja for a photo session.
Tamiya released this kit a couple of years ago. This is their description of the bike taken from their website www. tamiya.com.
And this is how they [...]
Over the years GT racing most of the world’s manufacturers, not least Mercedes Benz. This is the Mercedes AMG GT3, released in 2016, in line with the FIA’s GT3 class specifications.
Based on the AMG GT production car, it was given an [...]
After a gap of a couple of years Tamiya released another Moto GP 1/12 scale model, this time the Team Suzuki Ecstar GSX-RR ‘20.
About the bike: to quote Tamiya’s info - in 2015 Suzuki made a welcome return to Moto GP racing after an [...]
Hi, I haven’t posted anything for a while so here goes with another motorbike. I don’t usually do road bikes but this one caught my eye. It’s Yamaha’s attempt at a cruiser. Tamiya originally released this 1/12 kit some years [...]
AndrewH recently posted his 1/12th Tamiya Honda Monkey and here’s my attempt. I had cataracts on both my eyes last year and had an operation to correct this in September. Having new eyes was amazing and I wanted to build something to [...]
I started this build more than three years ago but several things got in the way of posting in headlines, but here goes. More details about the kit, the build, and the real thing can be found on the WIP (link) but here a few details. [...]
2018 was Porsche’s 70th anniversary and part of their celebrations was to apply two of their past liveries to the latest 911 RSR machines, namely the blue and white Rothmans scheme and the subject of this model the Pink Pig. The scheme [...]
Hi folks, I hope Sebastijen doesn't mind me gatecrashing his party, but, for various reasons, I have't been on iModeler for quite some time. The main reason is that iModeler hasn't been available here in China for some time, but I noticed [...]
