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U-boot type VIIc
Dear friends, this is an U-boot tipe VIIc in 1/350 scale by AFV built out of the box. I put it in a rough sea. What do you think?
Bombs away (B17E diorama)
“Flak so thick you could walk on it” . Only over nazi Germany american B-17 dropped over 640,000 tons of bombs during the war. Estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000 to [...]
Street Battle
This diorama came about of necessity. A diorama had been destroyed by a child sometime ago. I decided to re-use items from that diorama together with another diorama to make up for the destroyed one. Most of the figures have been taken [...]
Slow walk into captivity…
These 2 kits are the 1/35 Hobbyboss White Scout Car, and Masterbox 'Road to the rear' cart with wounded German troops.
Both these kits have sat semi-assembled for years in my 'stash', and I never really found the right inspiration to build [...]
Work in progress on a Bocage base for the Tamiya Marder 1.
At the moment I'm working on the Tamiya Marder 1 and I'm putting it on a small diorama base, since I like showing these vehicles in their natural habitats. The model, figures and the base are not finished yet, but here are some in progress [...]
8 - Condor Focke Wulf FW-189
This was built for my first every group build. The theme was Winter Wonderland (had to be a military build), and when I saw this camo on here I really wanted to try it.
The idea, have this FW-189 bursting out of a storm cloud.
The build [...]
Fly high, boy scout! (Marcel Bloch 210 diorama)
Robert Pasteau was the captain who flew this particular Marcel Bloch no.14, and along with pilot sargent Raymon Gimel, navigator sargent Robert Gonzalvez and gunner Claude Roques they all died the night of 25th of may 1940, while returning [...]
Hydraulic Jack
Another weathering test subject. This time a simple hydraulic jack. What do you guys think?
What I used to weather:
Tamiya Black Panel Line solution
Tamiya Brown Panel Line solution
Mig Black and Light Rust pigments
Another odd brand [...]
Berlin: Sixty Years of Division (Scratch 1:35th Scale)
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This project envisaged the modeling of a BT 4x4 command tower of the East German border as they started to appear in both Berlin and the German countryside since about 1980, when the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) was near [...]
Abandoned JS-II in a swamp
What do you think?
