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Tamiya M41 Walker Bulldog 1/35
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 [...]
Witold Lanowski’s P-47M of the 56th fighter Group
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 [...]
Year of the Cat Group Build: BF 109 E4/7 Trop, Tamiya 1/48, ‘Yellow 6’ – Hans Joachim Marseille – in ‘Leopard Camo’
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 [...]
Year of the Cat Group Build. 1/48 scale Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat
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 [...]
Me262A-1a on tow with Kettenkraftrad.
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.
P-47D30 – 1/72 – Tamiya
I used Tamiya kit with Eduard PE set. Kit represents D25 version. I builded the part from the back to the tail to convert it to the D30 version. I sprayed Tamiya gloss black to prepare the surface for metallic paint. Then I used Gunze [...]
1/35 TAMIYA CENTAUR
This is a Centaur at the period of Greek civil war on 1946.I hope you like it.
Tamiya Chieftain Mk. V 1/35
An old kit and a young kid come together fairly well to make this. I did very light reading on the kit and saw various people saying this kit is relatively in accurate. How it is inaccurate, I don't know, but I think the kit is quite [...]
1/32 Tamiya F4U-1A Corsair VMF-214
I highly recommend this model due it's incredible level of detail out of the box, as well as, the high standard of engineering resulting in perfect fits. Yes, at over $150.00 USD, it is considered pricey, but after building this wonderful [...]
