Tamiya scale model kits
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1/48 Tamiya P47D Bubbletop 404th FG “Black Panther” – Finished a few weeks ago and just hadn’t taken any pics! Thanks to everyone for their models during this group build, I have enjoyed looking at all of the gallery and WIP [...]
Here is my first of two contributions to this G.B. , let me start by thanking my (our) friend Dave for putting this together ,it's been fun I'm sure we'll all agree.
The kit is Tamiya's new 1/35 Valentine tank and what a great kit it is, [...]
I am going back and revisiting some of my older P-47s and giving them additional weathering and tidy ups where possible. As we all know trying to work on finished models has it share of risk...I managed to snap the UC leg on this one [...]
My inspiration is a war photo.So i constructed a jeep from Tamiya's range out of the box expect the tent.This is a resin item and gave to me by a friend.The base made with AK products,the wooden items are balsa wood and the rest from [...]
I originally wanted to make this kit after my first armor kit the shop I go to couldn't get it until February. I got itchy to build something and I built the Chieftain. This kit came in and I started work. The kit had very few parts and [...]
Writing in the "Flight Journal," P-47 special issue, famed Grumman test pilot Corky Meyer - the last actual "airplane guy" to head a major airplane company - named the P-47 Thunderbolt the "best fighter of World [...]
The mentality of those whose families fought and suffered on the ‘right side of history’ is often, understandably, to automatically consign those fighting on the other side, to a pigeon hole that does not allow for admiration. During [...]
When Louis announced this group project I had already been eyeballing my trusty old Tamiya kit that had been sitting on shelf for some time. This was just the excuse I needed to get it going.
I choose to go with the classic pre-war/early [...]
1/48th scale Tamiya Me262A-1a & Kettenkraftrad
Red 13, 111/EJG 2 flown by Oberstleutnant Heinz Bar.
The only addition was etched seat belts.
Painted with Aeromaster & Tamiya Acrylics, & weathered with artist gouache.