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A tale of two Toyotas - Part 1
First, let me say a big thank you to my friend Craig for posting this for me, the Chinese gremlins have struck again...
This is a Tamiya 1/24 scale kit of the Toyota Celica GT-Four World Rally Championship car, winner of the 1993 [...]
1/48 Tamiya Bf109 E-4, Maj. Helmut Wick, Geschwaderkommodore JG 2, Beaumont, France – Nov 1940
The appearance of this aircraft comes from a period in time when it was flown by Maj. Helmut Wick, and after many modifications to the camouflage scheme and tactical markings. The changes mirrored not only Wick’s ascension through the [...]
1/48 Tamiya Swimwagen & 1/48 hasegawa Willis JEEP
Well, I managed to restore from a CD some older picure of 1/48 for
costumer build kit .
Pictures are not the best at that time was not yet good digital cameras
Yeah, some from the archives of 2005-2010 year.
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Adversaries
Yesterday was a fair Autumn day at home, posing a good occasion to rig up an outdoor studio for model shooting. Not least to photograph my recently finished 1/48 scale Tamiya Dewoitine D.520 on which I'd been working for the larger part of [...]
French metal-Tamiya Somua S-35
The new kit from Tamiya, as usual a beauty. Built out of the box, including the figure.(Which I did no justice to). Perfect fit and snap together track links make this an easy one. The most work went into masking the color scheme, [...]
Freedom Models 1/48 X-47B
This is a relatively new kit, and i was inspired one a friend of mine built recently.
For a first kit from Freedom Models, this is good effort, of a really interesting subject. Put it next to an F-16 and see that it is also a very large, [...]
1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Ia,RN-N
1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Ia,RN-N (serial number over-painted)
Flight Officer Desmond Sheen 72 Squadron, Acklington, June 1940. Flight Officer Des Sheen was one of the early Spitfire aces. His Mk.I Spitfire is painted in the "B" [...]
RNZAF F4U-1A
Hello again:
This is from this time last year - my first 'Kiwi' build since washing-up here in 2012. It's the superb Tamiya 1:48 Corsair, but with a few extras: An Eduard 'Zoom' set for the cockpit, Ultracast resin prop & wheels and a [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster B.III (Special) “Grand Slam”
Little needs to be said about the Lancaster, one of the truly legendary “greats” of the Second World War. A product of brilliant improvisation when the twin-engine Manchester proved underpowered and unreliable, Avro took the airplane [...]
35th Scale Zundapp K500
I’ve been tinkering with another long forgotten stash refugee, Vulcan’s Zundapp K500. I made some new cylinder barrels for it and added individual tread blocks because the laminated assembly process wasn’t distinct enough for me. The [...]
