Tamiya scale model kits
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Tamiya's Schwalbe excellent kit had two disadvantages. Slightly short wings and more notably, the lack of slats that were always deployed on the ground with the lack of air flow.
This my first attempt at ambush / disc camouflage. All colors were Vallejo. My process was as follows: Paint the vehicle in a 3 color pattern. Seal with clear coat to prevent paint lifting. Create dots using blue painters tape and [...]
Nice little model, interestig to build.
And another quarter scale armoured vehicle finished by my dad.
Tamiya´s excellent kit, was a fast forward build without any problems. painted with Tamiya XF-72 and XF-74.
Build thread here
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And my dad´s little armour journey continues.
Tamiya kit built oob, sadly only one scheme provided, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 7th Armored Brigade during the Iraq War. But as I´ve seen, Hobby Boss is gonna release a non desertized 1/48 [...]
Here is a little diorama I made up earlier this year using the Tamiya 1:48 Dewoitine D.520 kit. I based the diorama loosely on a series of photos of a Dewoitine D.520 crashed landed sometime during the invasion of France 1940.
Nice kit [...]
This should be my masterpiece since restarting the hobby about a year ago. What a build (and work) is has been. But I’m very happy with the result.
This summer I was able to buy the Trumpeter Baureihe 52 mit Steifrahmentender (00210) for [...]
I built the kit mostly OOB, but added an Ultracast resin seat with molded seat belts, and turned brass gun barrels from Master Model. The latter were really necessary because Tamiya only provides decals to represent the cooling holes in [...]
After my completion of the Dam Buster Lancaster with the aircraft codes of Commanding Officer Guy Gibson, I read that after his Dam Buster adventure he flew the De Havilland Mosquito in which he unfortunately crashed near Steenbergen, the [...]
A very nice kit by Tamiya.