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Tamiya 1/48 scale Bristol Beaufighter MK VI
Aircraft: No. 604 Squadron, Scotland 1943-45
Years ago (probably decades ago) I managed to grab a copy of the two volume set of Edward Jablonski's book, Airwar. I remember this was the first time I had ever seen or heard of the [...]
Tamiya’s 1/35 Leopard1 A1
Tamiya's very ancient & venerable Leopard1 A1 completed in February 2017.
Though not a patch in terms of detail & perhaps accuracy compared to today's kits (I'm thinking of the Revell offering) - it does to my eye still look like [...]
Tamiya 1/48th Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero (Hamp) PTO IJN WWII
After coming home from Desert Storm, I had the urge to get back into modeling in the early 90's. And I set off to just stick to building aircraft and equipment that participated in Desert Storm. Then Accurate Miniatures came out with the [...]
Yamaha YZR 500 GP racer
Tamiya occasionally decide to re-issue some of their older kits and I was especially pleased when they did a this with this one. Kit no 14001 was the first release in their successful range of 1/12 motorcycles back in 1980. this [...]
Getting Skyraiders right
One of the big problems for modelers building A-1 Skyraiders is that most of the time the model is under-weathered. A friend of mine who flew Skyraiders in Vietnam once told me that the major problem he had with most of the Skyraider [...]
1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider VA-152 Black Spades
Just finished her today. Painted with MRP paints. Wash and stains was the Mig products, Aeromaster decals . Enjoy
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Tamiya 1/24 Scale Subaru Impreza WRC 99
My first 1/24 scale car! Quite a nice size model when finished and good fun to boot. Rather than try and spray the mica finish I left the main body unpainted,
Autumn Mist
So here he is, Verlinden's 120mm SS Trooper in the Ardennes. As I said in my build article I chose to do this guy different than was intended. He is in the M44 Camouflage uniform in Dot pattern on the box, including pants, and appears as [...]
Tamiya 1/48 P-47D Razerback 2Lt Lloyd Hathcock
My third in a series of aircraft flown by the Tuskegee airman. This one depicts a P-47D flown by 2Lt Hathcock with the 301st Fighter Squadron in Ramitelli, Italy. Build pretty much out of the box, but I did include a Ultracast seat and [...]
