1/35 scale modeling
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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 [...]
According to the books i have read, it was called a Nagel Kran(German)
This type was used to build up the V-1 launch ramp.
You can see in on Back &white photo,that next to the ramp on either side layes a rail track .
I only have found [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since returning to this hobby in 2020, I decided to focus on WW2 armour in 1/35. My first purchase happened to be this Bronco Pz.II Ausf.D and a HobbyBoss Pz.I Ausf.A. I was thinking of building some german tanks in a somewhat [...]