Tamiya scale model kits
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Willys MB Ambulance
This is the Tamyia 1/35th scale kit with some scratchbilt to make it an ambulance vehicle. I also scratchbuilt the mud chains for the rear tyres.
All Washed-Up
This Pacific-themed diorama includes both kit- and scratch-built items.
The aircraft is Tamiya's 1/32 Zero. It's made two appearances here in previous incarnations; from its present state, this is likely the last. The Marine figures are [...]
Tamiya Douglas F4D-1 Skyray
This is my second Tamiya kit to finish and it was well-engineered and thoughtfully designed. I started this Skyray about three years ago, only to put it aside about half finished. I returned to it about a month ago and pronounced it [...]
Tamiya 1/48 M-26 Pershing
I thought I would put up my model of a USMC M-26 Pershing for the 65th anniversary of the entry of the Provisional Marine Brigade into the First Battle of the Naktong in the Pusan Perimeter, August 7, 1950. The Tamiya kit isn't difficult [...]
U.S.Coast Guard HU-16E 1963
Well today is the US Coast Guard's 225th birthday, so I had to post something the "wing maggots" (we-who-did-not-fly's endearing term for our CG aviator brothers) would recognize. It's the last of my Monogram 1:72 scale HU-16's [...]
What happens when.................
...you have a hot June day, a vellux window, a magnifying lamp and your current project sat on the modelling bench in perfect alignment...? The model gets the full sun lamp treatment!
This model has been a bit of an episode for me, three [...]
1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I
This is Tamiya's 1/48 scale kit that I purchased at a show several years ago. Had previously done the Revell kit but was never quite satisfied with how it looked, so I thought I would try Tamiya. Really went together quite well only thing [...]
Corsair chasing a shadow… or a zero… or… in the clouds
Mid 1943 – a lone Corsair pilot has chased an unidentified aircraft into a cloud, and is now frantically searching for it. It is a fellow Naval Aviator? Is it an enemy aircraft? Or maybe just his own shadow?
“I Can’t Identify that [...]
Back to the Fifties... building Monogram's '55 Chevy.
I was a teenager during the fifties and Chevy's were every boys dream car. Cars like this inspired my life long love affair with convertibles and customs. I painted this with Tamiya White and Coral Blue right out of the rattle can The [...]
The Ritzmann Skyraider
In Spring 2011, I built and entered a Tamiya 1:48 A-1 Skyraider for the Vietnam War Group-Build at www.britmodeller.com . I was lucky enough to be voted ‘third overall’ in the resultant poll, and thought no more about it until a couple [...]
