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The Yanks Are Coming (Run Away)
The Meng FT 17 (Riveted) using the supplied base as a 'base' for the dio, I added some details to show more story. It represents the '5 of Hearts' at Saint Mihiel, September 1918.
This was the first battle of the American tankers of the [...]
Japanese Ram-jets
Meng 1/72 Kayaba Katsuodori Ram-jets
It seems to be '1/72 Japanese week' on iM, so here's another contribution. These Meng kits come two-in-a-box, and are superbly moulded. The actual aircraft was a concept only and never got beyond one [...]
BMPT "Terminator"
Hello again! This is Meng's 1/35 kit of the Russian infantry support fighting vehicle, "The Terminator".
The BMPT is a modern fire support vehicle based on the chassis of the T-90 MBT, and made it's first prototype appearance in [...]
Meng FT-17 (Rivet) "Rode hard and put up wet"
A WIP, no mud (yet) for that I'll use tube watercolor, Paint by AK, acrylic washes.The full dio will take a while.
Meng 1/35 AMX30B
The AMX30B is an odd duck. Contemporary tank designs favored increasing armor thickness and radical sloping to defeat anti-armor shells of increasing caliber, but the AMX design has almost no armor to speak of-- offering sufficient [...]
Lo-lux
This is Meng Models 1/35 "Pickup with ZPU-1" which we all recognise as a Toyota Hilux, but to spare Meng's blushes at trademark infringement the vehicle retains the somewhat coy, more genralised 'pickup' moniker.
I'm posting this [...]
1/35 FT-17
Great kit from Meng!
"the world's first modern tank." Was the precursor for modern standard tank design--– crew compartment in the front, engine in the back, and main armament in a fully revolving turret on top.
Great kit from [...]
