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2022 builds, and a Happy New Year to all!

by Michael Turner on December 31, 2022 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

This year was less productive than I had hoped. I only completed 4 kits: A 1/72 Eduard Fokker Dr.I triplane (mine is on the right, and my adult son's is on the left) as part of our club "Fokker" build theme The 1/48 Amusing [...]

1/35 PzKpfw Nb.Fz Panzerkampfwagen Neubaufahrzeug

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on December 12, 2022 · in Armor · 8 ≡

Tha German Panzerkampfwagen Neubaufahrzeug (new construction vehicle) was used mainly for propaganda purposes back in 1935. Of the five tanks produced, three arrived to Norway in 1940 to support the ground forces. Only one made it to the [...]

Amusing Hobby 1/35 Rheintochter R1

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on October 11, 2022 · in Armor · 10 ≡

Although it did not reach operational service, the Rheintochter surface to air missile was well into its experimental stages. The development program however, was terminated towards the end of the War. The kit represents a mobile version [...]

A quick Triebflügel

by Michael Turner on July 25, 2022 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

I don’t normally build “Luftwaffe 1946” aircraft but I saw this kit in my local hobby shop on sale and couldn’t resist. I thought it would make an amusing subject – so the brand is well named. I have long been aware of the [...]

Amusing Hobby 1/35 FV 214 "Conqueror" Mk 2

by Wes Pennest on December 27, 2021 · in Armor · 3 ≡

Model 3 of 4 for 2021! I'd have done more, but gestures widely life gets in the way. The Conqueror was the last British heavy tank, armed with a massive 120mm rifled cannon and was intended to knock out Soviet IS-3s and T-10Ms flooding [...]

1/35 Amusing Hobby Russian Object 279

by Clarence Novak on December 12, 2021 · in Armor · 4 ≡

1/35 Amusing Hobby Russian Object 279 Added Rubio barrel and Voyager PE details. First time weathering to this degree with oils and washes. Added white metal individual link tracks (that’s four sets of tracks on this tank). Had serious [...]

Luft ´46...1/48 Focke-Wulf Triebflügel VTOL Fighter

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on June 19, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

My dad isn´t usually a friend of whiffers and Luft 46 subjects. But the Amusing Hobby kit of the Triebflügel is rather simple, hasn´t many parts, so he decided to give it a try. Painted it in prototype style, some metal some primer some [...]

“No idea, Joe. Tell em it’s some kind of Wonderbug Machine.”

by Kyle Koppos on March 9, 2021 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

April 1945: the US Army's Shermans are overrunning airfields faster than the AAF can shoot them up. As some GIs poke their Garands into the backs of Luftwaffe scientists and groundcrew and shuffle them off the base, other Americans take a [...]

Imitation-sincerest form of flattery?

by Bill Koppos on October 18, 2015 · in Armor · 8 ≡

When the invading Wehrmacht encountered the Soviet union's T-34 tank for the first time, panic ensued. Here was a monster that deflected anti-tank rounds with ease, with mud-beating wide tracks, high mileage diesel power, and a nice long [...]