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Tamiya scale model kits

Tamiya 1/48 G4M-1 Betty Bomber

I built this just cause I could. Finish is Commercial Aluminum overall, with MM enamel IJN Green and Brown for topside colours. The chipping is a fortuitous accident from removal of the masking tape. Kit is OOB with the exception of [...]

All the other kids are doing it...my 2015's

Not many, just not as much energy last year. But I seem to have had a resurgence at year's close, so...Several cool new kits were released toward the second half of 2015 which helped...I would call Tamiya's Somua "kit of the [...]

1/48 Blue Aggressor

Another one of my aggressor schemes, 1/48 Tamiya F-16, with an Aries exhaust and cockpit, painted with Lifecolors and decals are from Afterburner

Modeling on the cheap

I have always been looking to get hobby and modeling supplies with out paying out the nose with internet prices being what they are so I thought I would share some of the things that I buy and use exclusively. You may recognize some of [...]

Tamiya/Italeri 1/48 Macchi 200

I have been remiss over the last few years, and not posted anything I have been building. I will now try to play catch-up. This is the Tamiya boxing of the very good Italeri Macchi 200 in 1/48 scale. Strictly OOB with free-hand [...]

1/48 Lizard Aggressor

1/48 Tamiya F-16C added Aries, Wolfpack and Steel Beach resin to the build' painted with Lifecolors and the decals are from Afterburner.

2016 Ambition-In with the New Finish the Old!

As the new year begins today, I want to be a little ambitious and start some new projects, complete older ones that have been on the back burner too long. 2015 I was able to whittle some of those older projects and finally complete them. [...]

1:72 Zero's (Pearl Harbour)

Three Zero's representing Zero's from three of the six Japanese carriers at the Pearl Harbour attack (please don't ask me which carriers). Made up from two Hasegawa and one Airfix but mainly using the Hasegawa decals, all painted with [...]

Revell 1:32 Spitfire

Revell 1:32 Spitfire Mk.IIa (Backdated to Mk.Ia) QV-K P9386 19 Sqn Pilot S/L Brian Lane and F/L Walter Lawson Kit: Revell 1:32 Spitfire Mk.IIa Decals: EagleCal EC#157 Paint: AK Interactive Sundries: Mig AMMO Washes, Tamiya Weathering [...]

1:72 Airfix Kittyhawk

This is the last of my 2014 builds, and as always one of Airfix's new tools and a joy to build. Finished with the kit decals and using Tamiya paints.