All about AFV and related military model making.
These are model scratch built cannon that I have put together over the past 50 years using scrap brass and timber off-cuts from the workshop. They are not to scale and are not type specific, just representative of an era.
Photo 1&2 is [...]
My neighbor Ron passed away recently. Ron was an interesting fellow - He grew up only a mile or so from where he died in this rural Iowa community, was an engineer in the Air Force (worked on the Hound Dog AGM), collected firearms, read [...]
What a pain in the butt this kit was! Trumpeter 1/35 scale HIMARS with a whopping 750 parts!
Great molding and detail, typical crappy Trumpeter instructions.
Get ready for tons of tiny parts, many that will leave you scratching your [...]
Finished today. 1/48 Gasoline Flakpanzer 38(t) Ausf. L Gepard/Sd. Kfz 140. Caen, France June 1944 lasting till December 1944 when it took part in Operation Northwind (in the anti aircraft defence role) with the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier [...]
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I’ve menaged to finish this little 1/72 scale T90 MS2 from Zvezda.
As almost all Zvezda’s kits, not great, not terrible. Easy to assembly, but lacks many details.
It is small model which I decided to paint in russian green [...]
Here goes my second post.
I have been obsessed recently with World War 2 British equipment. My last post was a Hurricane so I thought it appropriate to represent the ground forces this time. I chose the Valentine because I have been trying [...]
My first diorama
My latest build 105 mm c1a1 howitzer.
I spent a few years on this particular gun.
This model is 12.6 inches long ,5 in wide,8.6 in barrel.
The figures are 3.6 in tall made from plasticine.
This model is scatch built from [...]
This picture was taken in about 1970 in Jamaica on on exercise.
It looks like something from the movie desert rats.
I just thought I would throw this in for fun.
Tamiya 1:35 M18 Hellcat (MM376) :
Used Value Gears' kit-specific stowage plus other 'stuff' scrounged from the spares box. Tamiya lacquer paints mixed & lightened by eye.
One of my fave WWII vehicles and a huge step-up from the old [...]
This is scratch build.
I served i canadian forces Artillery for 10years.
I served on this howitzer as a driver and gun number.
