All about AFV and related military model making.
This was such a fun build and the detail for a 1/72 kit was impressive. I only had a couple of issues with the kit:
1- some part number errors on the instructions, but these are easy to avoid as it is obvious where the errors are.
2- some [...]
It's been a while but, here's my latest build, the Tamiya 1/48 Stug III. I included a bunch of in progress pics to show my process on armor. Hope you like it!
This kit #6386 by Dragon is fairly recent, dating back to 2010 and represents the Sd.Kfz.164 Nashorn in a 3 in 1 kit edition. I opted for the initial version delivered to the heavy tank destroyer unit 655 at Kursk, Russia in 1943. Only a [...]
In the spirit of building something completely different, I give you my interpretation of a Quick Reaction Vehicle. Started out with Tamiya's cool (and cheap) little (1/35) M151-A2 TOW missile carrier (and ended up with a bunch of cool TOW [...]
It's a wet ,wet weekend down here,some local flooding so I have been poking around in the garage building kits,and I dug out this pair for Jeffry and Louis,both modern Military men,4X4 MRAP(Mine Resistant Armour Protected) it's a Kinetic [...]
Thanks to Jim Wasley's recent MK VI light tank build, I finally was able to identify a Dinky Die cast survivor from my yout, given to me by my uncle in the before time. Thanks Jim.
Hope you fly guys don't mind if I throw a sea land vehicle in as these guys fought in the Pacific,the kit is a Italeri, it went together on it's own it was that easy,I used some artistic licence with this kit,so please enjoy it as it is [...]
Hi Folks: Here's a small reminder of the Aleutians campaign, inspired by a Bing Images photo of a long-abandoned Japanese Type 41 75mm mountain gun on Kiska. The kit is a 1/35th offering from Fine Molds.
