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All about AFV and related military model making.

Weather you like it or not….yer number is up!

Ok another bad pun! So a short update on the Panther project, tonight I start the weathering process. I use a mix of Pactra acrylic black, denatured alcohol and future (ok whatever the current name is) for the broad wash and pin wash. [...]

Review: AFV 1/35th Matador review

1/35 FT-17

Great kit from Meng! "the world's first modern tank." Was the precursor for modern standard tank design--– crew compartment in the front, engine in the back, and main armament in a fully revolving turret on top. Great kit from [...]

Review: Meng 1/35th M3A3 Bradley Kit review

Challenger 1 mk 3

I've been promising this one for a while! Sorry for the delay, I thought this would be finished ages ago, but you know how it is! Plus I thought I'd best leave it for a bit after Bernd's show winning Challenger, I wasn't in a hurry to [...]

Review: Eduard 1/35th M4A1 Sherman Kit Review

Italeri Crusader III, 1/35

Here's my just completed 2nd model tank, a British Crusader III done in decals and paint to represent 7th Hussars (cool word..."hussars") 4th Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division XIII Corps, 8th Army, North Africa, 1942, so [...]

Italeri 1/72nd scale Dodge WC-51 3/4 ton Cargo Truck,US Army WWII

Happy New Year, to post my first build for the year is not a fresh build but one that was completed around 2012. For a change of pace away from aircraft I built this neat little kit of the Dodge WC-51 3/4 ton Cargo Truck. Straight out of [...]

Review: Meng 1/35 T-90 with Dozer review

First things first....GO DUCKS!

Ok now that I have displayed my "Oregon Wall" back to the Panther. For those not in the US the NCAA Football championship game is set and it will feature my beloved Oregon Ducks VS the Ohio State Buckeyes! Ok, as for the Panther [...]