iModeler Armor
All about AFV and related military model making.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Panhard 178 with Renault turret (RPM 1/72)
Wheeled armored vehicles is my second favorite topic after aviation and I build some of them from time to time. This one is from the well known Panhard's family of French wheeled AFV's. My model represents Panhard 178 with Renault-type [...]
Ho-Ni I (Type 1)
After the start of the Pacific War, units of the Imperial Japanese Army began to encounter advanced Allied medium tanks such as the M4 Sherman. The Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank lacked sufficient armour or armament to deal with this [...]
