Tamiya scale model kits
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Tamiya 1/48 Meteor F.3
Tamiya's excellent Meteor F.3 kit comes with a nose weight and is accurate with respect to the depiction of aircraft features.
The only problem that I had with the kit were the decals that were resistant to various solvent agents.
When Hogs Fly – Tamiya 1/48 Scale F-16C Block 32 Fighting Falcon
Every airplane model airplane I’ve worked on since reigniting my modeling hobby has been of World War II vintage powered by piston engine and propellor. This latest kit is my first foray into a more modern jet age, though the subject at [...]
Tamiya 1:48 Spitfire Mk.Vb Kit #61035
Tamiya kit...say no more. I've been waiting a long time to do a model of an aircraft that participated in "Operation Starkey". (link) I was originally going to buy decals for a clipped wing Mk.Vb, L⦾SH s/n W3320 as seen by [...]
Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire IXc
Tamiya's 1/32 Spitfire (together with their P-51D and F4U) are probably the best aircraft kits ever produced in the scale.
The detailing and surface texture are amazing. Engine components details are also impressive although one has to add [...]
Ebbro 1/20 Tyrrell 002 – Silverstone 1971
This one has been built for my boss, who is a major petrol-head.
He asked if I could build him a Cevert Tyrrell and as this was lying about I said I would.
He just wanted it built out of the box so that was done with the addition of some [...]
Tamiya 1/48 F4U-2 Corsair
Tamiya's 1/48 Corsair is a magical kit. Although not a shake and bake kit, it takes little effort to give the built model a realistic look.
1/12 scale Renault F1 car kit by Tamiya
Well here is another completed build. A Renault in 1/12 scale. Don’t let the packaging fool you, these are vintage Tamiya kits with some pathetic photoetched thrown in. Beware that these kits were manufactured before the computer age and [...]
Tamiya 1/48 FW190 A8
This was a nice easy kit with good fit and few issues. Cockpit is not very detailed so I built it closed.
After some searching I built approximating a plane from II/jg 1 “Oseau” as it was in late 1943 with red rudder, numerals, [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-47D Razorback 318th FG Saipan
Fresh off the bench Razorback finish in the marking of the 318th Fg out of Saipan . The 318th Thunderbolts was loaded on Jeep Carriers at Bellows fields then launched from the carrier once it arrived at Saipain where then did a mission [...]
Coastal Command Crusader: 1/48th Tamiya Beaufighter
Tamiya released their 1/48th scale Beaufighter duo starting in 1997 with the Mk.VI and added the TF.X later. This offering was pretty much The go-to kit in 1/48th scale, for a couple of decades, until Revell's release in 2018 offered a [...]
