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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.
For some reason when I logged on this morning I discovered that I could post pictures and articles again, so here goes! 2005 was Yamaha's 50th anniversary, and they were determined to win as many world championships as they could. 2005 [...]
First, I'd like to say a big thank you to my good friend Craig for posting this for me. For some reason, despite Martin's determined efforts to solve the problem, I'm currently unable to post new articles. Anyway, as you can see, it's a [...]
The T-62 made its official appearance in the victory parade in 1965. It was introduced as a replacement for the successful T54/55 designs, and is similar in external shape and mechanisms. It is different by the use of a 115mm smooth bore [...]
This is another Tamiya kit, this time their 1/20 scale Honda RA272 F1 racing car from 1965. If you'd like to see something of the build please have a look at this link to the Automotive Group - (link). The jeading picture shows the model [...]
This is Tamiya's 1/35 German 3 ton 4x2 cargo truck, otherwise known as an Opel Blitz, but I think Tamiya weren't allowed to use that name for various reasons.The truck was originally built in 1931, and mass production followed in 1935. It [...]
I've just got back from a 10 day break in south west China (close to the Vietnam border)I I live in north east China. While in the seaside city of Beihai we went to the maritime museum and found this model. My apologies for the photos, [...]
We had our first real snow of the winter last night, so I thought I would venture out into the sub zero temperature to take some pictures of this old, but venerable, Tamiya kit. I completed this about 18 months ago, just before joining [...]
Well, I'm not sure what time/date it is in iModeler land, but where I live it's 11;30 am on 31st October! Here's my contribution to the group build, Tamiya's 1/35 kit of the French battle tank B1 bis. Being a Tamiya kit it was easy to [...]
Trying to follow Rob's Typhoon posting must be like trying to follow Elvis Presley on stage, so here goes, you can boo me off if you like.
When Gordon Murray was McLaren's chief designer he was tasked with designing the ultimate GT road [...]
This is another of Tamiya's 1/12 scale motorcycle kits, this time a road going Kawasaki. I originally set out to make only racing bikes, so this one makes a slight change. The ZX-12R was introduced in 1999 to meet the growing demand for [...]
