All about AFV and related military model making.
Since the Sherman was so popular, here's another armor review from a few years back.
After the war, German tank expert Hasso von Manteuffel told Basil Liddell-Hart that, "Tanks must be fast. That, I would say, is the most important [...]
A review from 2006.
The Original "Black Panthers":
Much is made in military history about how the Sherman tank was outclassed by its opponents, with the unstated message being it was a second-rate armored vehicle which only ended [...]
I grabbed this $13 Tamiya kit off the shelf intending it to be a weekend build. It turned into a week full of evenings building and experimenting with preshading, Tamiya putty, Vallejo pigments and oil washes. It's amazing the difference [...]
A type of German Navy rangefinder in a armourd dome and the small armourd lookout .
As used for the Heavy coastal batteries on the atlantikwall,
some where on a concrete tower and other on the roof of a special type of bunker .
Dome [...]
My first wholly 2021 build--bought, started and finished this year. This is another great Tamiya kit. What more to say?
I included Monsieur Le Commandant de Char to give a sense of the size of this petite 2-man tank. The peculiar [...]
This is the 1/48 Tamiya U.S. Army 2.5 ton 6x6 Cargo Truck, and the Mister Craft 1/48 Piper Cub.
The model deplicts the transportation of Piper Cubs in the days following the D-day landings as they were brought off the large landing ships. [...]
Hello All, this is my first article here. I'm a longtime lurker and finally joined about a month ago. Greg Fabian's P-51B Shangri-La made me jump in. For a short bio please click on my name if you wanna know me a little better.
This site [...]
Greetings to the forum members.
On this occasion I wanted to show you my latest project: the Dragon M3A1 half-track, in 1/35 scale, in IDF version during the 1960s. It is the 2009 kit (n° 6332), and not the n° 3569, from 2016.
The [...]
This is a great kit that took up most of February . It's my first Das Werk build and I was impressed with the level of detail and quality of engineering. This kit as originally issued contained a full interior. This later issue excludes [...]
