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I've not posted much here lately, mostly because I've been stupidly busy at work (working 13 days out of each 14 due to a staff shortage), I did get this almost finished but it cast off and sailed away across the cutting mat before I could [...]
Long time without posting here, folks. I've been really, really lazy with plastic. Luckily, my 5 y/o son is model-crazy, so practically forced me to work in my Shimakaze while he tinkered his vintages Revell Iowa, Forrestal, Missouri and [...]
Hello fellow modelers,
This is the IJN Destroyer Asashio, my 5th attempt at 1/700 scale modelling.
My first three 1/700 builds were just straight out of the box build, then I discovered the wonderful world of aftermarket super detailed PE [...]
Greetings, fellow iModelers! I was watching a short 1952 movie entitled "Okinawa." In it were some great shots of Japanese pilots (actually filmed by Japanese photographers) manning their planes (dive & torpedo bombers) [...]
Finally found the time to finish this one.
Hello guys, this is the destroyer Ayanami who is veering to avoid a torpedo while an American torpedo bomber crashes nearby. It’s a 1/700 kit from Hasegawa with photoetched parts from Tetra model, the torpedo bomber came from tamiya. [...]
The battle of Surigao Strait ((link))
I made a diorama using the World of Warship's illustration.
Manufacturer : Aoshima
P.E : Fly Hawk
1/700 Scale
Atago was the flag of Admiral Kurita. He headed to the Leyte Sea of the Philippines with a huge fleet to stop MacArthur's troops from landing in the Philippines. At 6:32 a.m. on October 23, 1944, the USS Darter fired six torpedoes at [...]
1/4800 scale
Manufacturer : Shapeways (shapeways.com)
Well I finally completed her. Many of you provided wonderful comments and questions when I posted the past several WIP articles on this complex build. I truly appreciated all the compliments and comments. Overall this was a complex but [...]









