A quick Triebflügel
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 [...]
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Amusing Hobby 1/35 FV 214 "Conqueror" Mk 2
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
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
15/2021
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 [...]
“No idea, Joe. Tell em it’s some kind of Wonderbug Machine.”
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?
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 [...]
