Scale models of cars, trucks, motorcycles, machinery.
Here's the next chapter in my current motorcycle fixation.
It's Tamiya's XV1600 Custom which I have modified slightly to look more like a "semi-customised" version...
I removed all the kit's fake chrome and re-did all the metal [...]
This is my take on Tamiya's Yamaha XV1000...
Built from the box except that I removed the fake chrome plating and used Alclad for all the metal bits.
I decided to paint it in a custom "retro" style scheme with Tamiya's Pearl [...]
And now for something that doesn't shoots, fires at or blows up things. One of the coolest TV shows on in the early 1960's was 'route 66', it had two guys driving across the America[and Canada] in a Corvette, working at odd jobs and [...]
С 1982 года Oshkosh выпускает многофункциональный тяжелый высоко-мобильный тактический грузовик (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) или HEMTT с [...]
I grew up on a farm with green tractors, and as kids my school mates and I used to have tug-of-wars over whether John Deere or IH were the better tractors. Sometime around my early teens I built the Ertl Massey-Ferguson 1155 tractor which [...]
I picked up this 1/20th scale kit at an estate sale partially built for $10 Canadian. The original price tag on the box was $35.00. Some minor sub assembly painting was done. The instructions say the kit was released in 1993.
I didn’t [...]
This is my Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1M.
Built almost straight from the box using Mr Color and Tamiya lacquer paints.
The metallic effects are Alclad but with a couple of coats of Mr Color clear so it looks like automotive lacquer.
I lost the [...]
Hello again!
This is Kawasaki's attempt at a Moto GP bike, boasting their famous 'Ninja' branding.
I think this bike is from the 2006 season, so will have a 998cc engine and will generate round the 240bhp mark.
The kit is a Tamiya 1/12, [...]
Following my project to restore or even to build vintage models which bring me good memories, now I went to this 1955 original Revell mold.
My oldest brother, 81 now, had one and it was probably the very first scale model I had seen, I [...]
