Fire and smoke on Iwo Jima
This i my depiction of an Marine squad burning out the caves on Iwo. This was also my first attempt to make smoke.
Sorry i I.m boring you with my old builds
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Tom
Westland UH 14A Lynx, Royal Netherlands Navy 1977.
1/72 Revell, finished in mainly Humbrol and MM enamels with Tamiya X22+X21 over kit decals.
Across the reef
At dawn on 20 November 1943, U.S. marines launched an assault on Tarawa, a Japanese-held atoll in the British Protectorate of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The water in the lagoon was only 3 feet deep that morning, less than the 4–5 [...]
BiG MiG
I've just finished building this as a mojo-mender as with a few long term projects on the go, I'd become bogged down and in need of something that went together without problems - this 1/32nd scale twin-stick MiG-29UB proved to be just the [...]
Red Beach 1 Betio
In November 1943 the 2nd US Marines Division landed on a small Betio island in the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific. The island, only a few square kilometers large, was defended by 4500 Japanese soldiers
There were many things during the Beto [...]
Frozen Chosin
Gemtlemen
This a depiction of a Marine unit fighting back the Red Chinese
On 27th Nov. 50, thousands of Chinese troops swarmed over the frozen Yalu River, on the N. Korean/Chinese border, cutting off US Marines in the Chosin Reservoir [...]
It’s officially a #1 Amazon Best Seller!
Just released this past week and already a #1 Amazon Best Seller.
It's going to be the basis for next year's National Memorial Day Concert on PBS, they're going to do the story of LCOL Don Carlos Faith.
The book is more than the Chosin [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-51
Sometimes it's nice to do an easy build, so decided on this P-51. Haven't done one in a few years, but choosing a colour scheme is so hard. Too many good ones. Settled on this...
Maj Richard Hewitt's Big Dick. 🙂 P-51D-25-NA 87th Fighter [...]
"Almost at home" Vought Corsair F4U-1A, 1:72
Hi there
The idea for this little dio came up when I ran across a product called „prop blur“, a photo etched propeller, depicting nothing else but a rotating props. AA very simple but veeeeeeery clever product, I just loved it (and I [...]
Soviet Armoured Aerosan NKL-26
This is Trumpeter's 1/35 armoured aerosan. The original was made of plywood with a 10mm armour plate to the front only. It had a ring-mounted 7.62 DT machine gun, and was powered by an M11G aircraft engine.
It had a crew of two, and often [...]
