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After building models for over 40 years I quit in October, 2016. I have 284 models here at home with 300 awards. I have written several dozen model stories for 5 websites and 4 monthly newsletters.
YOU GUESSED IT...I had to go out in my back yard and get more sandstone for this model. A million guys could come over and get a piece of my sandstone and there will still be enought stone for another couple of million models. If you [...]
A wonderful kit to build and of course I got some more sandstone slabs to put this model on. Everything went together just fine and it was painted with my Tamiya paints.
Another armor model is on its' way!
Enjoy!
RJW
Another easy model to build. The box art show's a winter scene so I check my supply of snow that I got from the hobby shop long ago and I have plenty of it. Some how I missed taking photos of the tread's being painted and installed, but [...]
Another easy model to build, however I taped the long gun barrel together and it had a slight cure in it. If I try to bend in back in shape, the hard plastic may brake. I clicked on "think" and my brain said "glue in a solid [...]
This little car kit went together real nice and I don't think I had any building problems as I followed the direction's.
I applied a desert/like Tamiya color of paint to the model. I clear coated the model with my Future Floor Wax, then [...]
After I built my Patton tank in 1998 I continued to build more of armor models. Here's another one that I built in February, 2016.
The real tank had what they called a "Blade Cleaning System " attached to the front of the big [...]
Some time in 1998 I bought this kit which was my very first tank model. I have no record of who made the kit but I can say that it was very easy to build right "o.o.b."
I painted the track with some steel paint because real tanks [...]
This kit intrigued me, so it became one of my favorite armor models.
The two skeleton's went together just fine and the same for the rest of the vehicle.
I made a base using 1/2" hard styrofoam then covered it with desert sand that I [...]
This model was very easy to build so go buy one if you can fine it as I bought the kit back in 2007. I don't have any information as who made the kit.
The "yellow"plastic looked so good so I started to polish it with my [...]
I found another kit that showed a "Pink" car on the box top art work. Since I had lots of pink paint left over from painting my Cadillac and 2 airplanes, I just had to buy this car?
I spruced up the engine with homemade spark [...]
