All about AFV and related military model making.
Here is my Airfix 1/35 M12 GMC.
I have done a couple of scratch built mods such as cut the bulkhead in the cab behind the driver and added a piece of etch brass diamond mesh, replaced the engine deck air grills with etch brass diamond mesh [...]
My AFV Club 1/35 FV 107 Scimitar.
Decals used are the Royal Light Dragoons markings in Bosnia 1996 from the STAR Balkan Peacekeepers set.
The track is the individual link set from AFV Club. Total of 72 links on each side.
Paints used are [...]
Greetings to all forum members.
After 3 years, I decided to finish this kit.
Here you can see some pictures of the construction stage:
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For the paint I used Vallejo's Olive Drab, darkening and lightening it to give highlights and [...]
My next build was my first HobbyBoss (Tristar rebox) kit. A Panzer IV Ausf.D Tauchpanzer, literally “diving tank”.
A number of Panzer IIIs & Panzer IVs were converted into submersible tanks for the planned invasion of England [...]
Eva was the second self-propelled 60 cm siege mortar produced and saw action in the Eastern Front.
Trumpeter's Karl is a highly detailed model that builds into a menacing looking mortar once completed. The parts number is high but, the [...]
Something new and refreshing, a lot of fun and new techniques to try. So, there will be more vehicles to come.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Valley of Tears abandoned Syrian T-62 filled the battleground. I chose two schemes of the Syrian army serving at the same front with contrasting camouflage schemes.
The venerable Trumpeter T-62 model [...]
After the Czech tanks, the time had come to build a Panzer III. I went for the new Ryefield Model Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.J (2020 tool). A very cleanly molded & detailed kit with workable tracks and suspension. I chose to build as a fixed [...]
Still building in a loosely chronological order. I wanted to get the Czech tanks done before starting on the German made Panzers..
The fit of this Trumpeter kit was good overall, but there were some issues with gaps with the top plate at [...]
In March 1938, Hitler implemented the occupation of the Sudetenland (Bohemia-Moravia) and the seizure of Czechoslovakia. As a result, the Germans took over the Czechoslovak industry, including the Skoda factory, which produced the Lehký [...]
