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1/48 Tamiya FW-190 D-9 “Lt Oscar Romm” IV/JG 3 Sturm
Tonight's article is on a kit that I built many years ago sometime around the year 2000. It's the Tamiya model FW-190"D-9" .
Oscar Romm was a Luftwaffe "Experten" who is credited with 92 kills. 82 of these were from [...]
F-16C block 50 1:48 Tamiya + Aires, Eduard
This is model of F-16 from Red Flag 15-3 excercies that took part in July 2015, Nevada. Its normal base is Spandahlem in Germany.
F-16s from Spangdahlem are coated with special Have Glass paint having ability to distract radio waves. This [...]
Arrrrgh she be done!
Fredrick “Big Jim” Streig was one of the original member’s of “Blackburn’s Irregulars” The Jolly Rogers of VF-17. Born in Sacramento California he earned his wings of gold and was commissioned as an Ensign October 1, 1942. He [...]
Gulf Of Sidra
1/48 Tamiya F-14A VF-41 completed in three weeks . This kit was just a blast to build. Enjoyed every bit of the build. painted with Tamiya Paints . I had to replace the pitot tube with with tiny drill bit . keep bending it I plan on [...]
1/35 Tamiya Panther G late War
Here's another later war German AFV for your enjoyment.
It's built almost right out of the box. I used Tamiya individual track links and photo etch set for the Commander's MG gun sight, fan towers and rear upper grill deck plates. I [...]
1/35 Tamiya King Tiger (Henschel)
Here's one more Armor model for tonight. I built this King Tiger without zimmerit and its painted in the "Ambush" tri color scheme. The German tank manufacturing companies discontinued the use of Zimmerit paste in September [...]
1/35 Tamiya JS-3 Stalin Tank
Here's one fresh off the work bench. I just finished up the pastel weathering. It has been built for a little while, but was lacking the final details.
It has Fruilmodel tracks, and I fabricated tow cables from copper wire. I used [...]
1/48 Tamiya 61013 Nakajima Ki-84-1A Hayate (Frank)
This is the venerable Tamiya kit from the late 60's / early 1970's. (In all actuality it is more like a 1/50 scale model). Still it was a fun build.
I accidentally arrived at this finish. It was featured in a magazine called "Great [...]
Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1D Vought Corsair
Here is my Tamiya Corsair, built as it served with VF-84 on board the US Aircraft Carrier "Bunker Hill".
You just can't have enough of them !
(At least I can't)
This one was built using the kit parts to fold up the wings. This [...]
