Tamiya scale model kits
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Tamiya 1/32 F4C
There has probably been more misinformation published on 64-0829 than almost any other Phantom. I have tried to build this jet as it may have looked on the 30th March 1967 when the then Col. Robin Olds led a low level strike against the [...]
Video: Tamiya P 38 Closing the Gear Doors
This video describes several methods for closing the gear doors of the Tamiya P-38 Lightning for in-flight display.
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Tamiya P-38 Photo Recon Web Page:
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"Britain's Beast!" -- Tamiya Mk IV Male
Another fantastic kit from Tamiya. A joy to build, especially the tracks. Totally OTB and nothing added except many, many (many) hours and sessions of weathering and layering. I threw lots and lots of stuff at this beast. Pigments, [...]
Tamiya 1/48 A-1H Skyraider
The Skyraider was a late WWII Douglas design to fulfill the United States Navy requirements for a carrier-based, single-seat, long-range, high performance dive/torpedo bomber that would be a follow-on to the Dauntlesses, Helldivers and [...]
Invasion Stripes: Williams Villian, Mustang P-51D 352nd Fighter Group, Tamiya 1/48
It is always fairly difficult to find operations and tasking for individual aircraft. It is fair to say that The Blue Nosed ‘Basterds’ of Bodney were huge players over Normandy in 1944 and then beyond.
June 1st to 5th
The 352nd Fighter [...]
Invasion Stripes / Flight 19 P-51B Mustang Viscous Virgie, The Flying Scott
This is the old 1/48 scale Tamiya P-51B Mustang... or is it ?
It also happens to the the VERY FIRST razorback Mustang I have built in about 20 years. With those being the Accurate Miniatures kits which were pretty nice. Say it isn't [...]
Invasion Stripes / Flight 19, 1/48 Tamiya Republic P-47D-28RA Thunderbolt "Eileen"
Building this model was a first for me. Believe it or not, this is my VERY first Tamiya P-47. EVER ! I know, sad but very true.
I know, I need to get seated at the bench more often... but life has a bad habit of interfering with the [...]
Invasion Stripes / Flight 19 Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X 236 Squadron RAF, Tamiya 1/48
This is a kit I have had in the stash for about 15 years or more.
I jumped at the opportunity to build it as a part of our D Day / Invasion stripe group build as a part of Flight 19 group.
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Previously I had wanted to build this [...]
Sd.Kfz.251/1 Wiking Division
Eastern front Wiking division half track. Finishing done using Tamiya and Vallejo paints. Weathering was done primarily with washes with Vallejo German Camo black brown, dry brushing with Vallejo Iraqi sand, MiG tan filter and AK summer [...]
Wehrmacht MG42 gunner, Hürtgenwald, November 1944
I thought I'd get out of my comfort zone and try my hand at two things that I don't often do: Groundwork with a lot of foliage and larger scale figures.
Since I didn't want to ruin an expensive resin figure, I picked up the good ol' [...]
