iModeler Armor

All about AFV and related military model making.

TAMIYA 1:35th CHALLENGER 1 Mk3

Built this over the last three ! days for a break from the Yamato... Usually build boats, but got about 6 Armour kits to build for a friend. OOB, heavy weathering. (the Land-Rover is a Tamiya SAS "Pink-Panther", painted as [...]

Big Bertha wip

Ahh lunch breaks 1 down 1 to go. Each wheel is 28 pieces. And then Sand, sand, sand, blow dust, sand, sand, sand,,repeat...

Big Bertha is biiigggg

What I'm working on at the moment. It's Takom's 1/35 scale WW1 artillery piece. Nice kit, fit is good, details are crisp. The stands all have holes in the tread plate molded all the way through. The kit is somewhat simplified in spots, it [...]

Review: Meng 1/35th DR9 Armoured Dozer Review

My brief plunge into “Armor”

All of these are Tamiya 1/35 scale kits: Ford GPA Amphibious Jeep, Willy's Jeep, M3 Lee, Military Police Motorcycle and Police Officer and M3 Stuart Light Tank. All were built straight from the box and lightly weathered. The tank commander [...]

Review: Meng 1/35th ZSU-23-4 SHILKA Review

Aurora/Monogram Sherman

This is Monograms reissue of aurora's 1/48 M-4 Sherman, it came in a combo kit with Monograms 1/48 Fw-190. Being not much of an armor guy I wasn't sure how to detail it, Having lost the decal sheet, I was going to try for the tank from the [...]

Tamiya´s SU 122 off to a new home

Decided to get rid of some models I have had for a long time, they will now go to a new home. The brown/green/black is a WhIF in Swedish camouflage and markings, as if used in the 1940s. The second one is painted using an illustration as [...]

Clearing the shelf of doom & experimenting with mud....

...I am dirt impaired... an aircraft modeler who dabbles in armor, and my weathering reflects that. So now i try to place an AFV in it's environment with limited success. All comments and criticism welcomed... eventually I may learn to [...]

Review: Takom 1/35th AMX-13/75 review