Tamiya scale model kits
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Hi all,
This is Tamiya 90's offering of the early Tiger. It was a quick build that I wanted to try some new stuff on. This is my first very faded white wash, and I am happy with the results.
This is the Tamiya Messerschmitt Bf109 G-6 in 1/72nd scale.
Apart from the EZ-line antenna wire, the model was built straight out of the box.
Construction begins with the cockpit, totalling 11 parts. This starts with cockpit floor/bulkhead [...]
Details on the new kit are below, was hoping for the late versions first up, nonetheless are long overdue new tool kit of a great WW2 aircraft. Looking forward to getting one and building soon!
Tamiya 61120 1/48 Lockheed P-38 F/G [...]
Read their Facebook page earlier today, and to me it sure looks like their “new 1/48 aircraft” is the P-38 everyone was hoping for.
Here’s the link to the page that has some revealing photos
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Now this was one blast of a car to put together! Brought back high school memories when my pal took me out for a weekend pre-rally warm up drive in his mid 60’s S when it was almost new. I was his navigator. We went around a hairpin and [...]
Hi Everyone
This kit is a cracker, enjoyed it as much as any kit I have ever built. OOB bar the antenna (RB Models)
Happy Modelling
Darren
Hi all , it's been a while since my last posting but here we are. This is an Arii kit of the brilliant F4U Corsair, it seems strange for me to say that as a lifelong modeller I've never built one of these before in any scale so when I saw [...]
This is my latest kit finished. Tamiya kit (60766).
Built mostly straight out of the box with the following improvements:
Eduard pre-painted photo etched seat belts
Replace the wing cannons by 1mm metal tubes
Replace the pitot tube using [...]
Here are some images of my 1:72 Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair, as it flew from the USS Cape Gloucester off Okinawa in 1945.
The kit, actually my first Tamiya ever, is a joy to build with great fit and all. However, it is too bad the flaps are [...]
the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the US Navy's primary fighter for 35 years from the early 70's till 2006...it came out of Mcnamara's failed F-111 project...in fact from the intakes back the F14 is the F-111 though the Navy added the second [...]