Tamiya scale model kits
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1/24 Tamiya Austin Mini Cooper 1275 S Mk.I
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 [...]
1/48 Tamiya Crusader MkII
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
F4U-1A Corsair Arii 1/48
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 [...]
FW190A-2 Hptm. Hans Hahn Gruppenkommandeur III./JG2, (Tamiya 1/72)
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 [...]
Corsair F4U-1D USS Cape Gloucester
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 [...]
Tamiya 1/48 F-14A Tomcat/ “Miss Molly”… VF-111 “Sundowners”
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 [...]
1/32 Tamiya Mosquito Cockpit is finished
Well, I have to say that I am very pleased with the way this thing is turning out. It's taken weeks to get this far primarily because I took some time off, and I've only been working on it an hour or two in the evenings intead of my usual [...]
1/32 Tamiya Mosquito Cockpit II
A little more progress on the office. Managed to get everything in place and painted. I used Master brass gun barrels to replace the molded kit ones on the guns and painted them with Alclad Gun Metal followed by Mig Gun Metal pigment.
Sd.Kfz. 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen
Information from the TAMIYA instruction manual;
“In the early 1930s, under weapon restrictions enforced by the Versailles Treaty, the German army was limited to using Kfz.13 armored vehicles. However, based on the chassis of an Adler [...]
