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Dragon’s ‘Black Label’ M103A2 Heavy Tank in 1/35th scale

It’s been quite a while since finishing my last project and this, as the title says, is Dragon’s ‘Black Label’ M103A2 Heavy Tank in 1/35th scale. I won’t bore you with a blow-by-blow account but I used the following additional [...]

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Heavy Metal Car

I couldn't let my friend Dennis's 1/48 Tamiya armor kit go in answered. Here's my latest kit in quarter inch scale, the Tamiya Sd.Kfz.232. As Dennis has said numerous times, these kits go together fast with very little cleanup or [...]

Tamiya, 1/48 scale Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) Ausf. E/F

Tamiya's quarter scale armor kits are awesome. This one is no exception. The fit is great and builds up like a dream. leaves lots of time for painting. I used everything in the toolbox to paint and weather...AK primers, Tamiya german [...]

SU-122 “Exploded View”

This is the new MiniArt 1/35 kit of the Soviet self-propelled gun, the SU-122, promoted as the 'Initial Production' version in their WWII Military Miniatures Series. MiniArt have released two versions of the kit, back-to-back - a standard [...]

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Tank in the Box....Hobby Boss 1/35 Schneider

Howdy boys and girls it's been awhile, I have been building, just not a lot of finishing. Got this one done somehow. It's Hobby Boss's model of an early "tank", The French Schneider CA. For history and specs and such, go [...]

T-20 Komsomolets and gun 53-K 45mm 1:72

T-20 Komsomolets NorthStarModels and gun 53-K 45mm UM 1:72 Strictly from a boxed assemblage. He wanted to rest, gathering high-quality production Model T-20 Komsomolets. However, in the set it was more than a hundred components, some are [...]

Dragon Sd. Kfz. 184 Ferdinand in 1:35

Some history: I bought this particular older kit (# 6133 dated 2001) out of the stash from another modeller in Germany. The Ferdinand was a formidable tank hunter embedded into the German Panzer Divisions during WWII. It was featured of [...]

Dragon Pz. Kpfw. III Ausf. E in 1:35

Some history: I bought this particular kit (# 9040 dated 1997) out of the stash from another modeller in Belgium, together with an Early Tiger I Academy kit, which I posted on here too. The Panzer III formed the backbone of the German [...]