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Tamiya 1/12th Yamaha YZR-M1 50th Anniversary U.S. Inter-colouring Edition
For some reason when I logged on this morning I discovered that I could post pictures and articles again, so here goes! 2005 was Yamaha's 50th anniversary, and they were determined to win as many world championships as they could. 2005 [...]
1/350 Tamiya Yamato (new tool) & Monochrome Suzutsuki
A diorama with the subject "Getting under way for Operation Ten-Ichi-Go", Yamato's last sortie in the spring of 1945. I made an effort to accurize the ships in order to depict them correctly as they would have been fitted at that [...]
P-47D Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Here is my attempt to model the P-47D of Thomas E. Bowers (65th FS, 57th FG) based at Grossetto Italy in March of 1945. This is the 1/48th scale Tamiya P-47D kit with Ultracast seat with belts, Ultracast tires, and Superscale decals. The [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-47D-40 “Big Stud”
Here is my recently finished 1/48 Tamiya P-47D40 with the markings of “Big Stud” from 325th FG, 15 AF.
The base kit is Tamiya P-47M.
Cockpit modified with Eduard instrument panel and seat belts.
Painting was done with Alclad lacquers [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.3
First, I'd like to say a big thank you to my good friend Craig for posting this for me. For some reason, despite Martin's determined efforts to solve the problem, I'm currently unable to post new articles. Anyway, as you can see, it's a [...]
Volkssturm 1/35
After i bought a beautiful Tamiya IS-2, i decided to try and depict harsh conditions of Berlin fighting and the fact that the young and the old defended the city side by side with the soldiers. I started with the stairs idea, i liked a few [...]
ISU-152 1/35 Zvezda
I got this kit as a prize on of the competitions i went to, so decided to do it as a experiment in whitewash finish using the hairspray technique. A pretty rudimentary kit, with some sink marks that needed filling, redoing some details on [...]
Tamiya Fw190 F-8 1/48
Well...to be fair,its not a new model per se...finished it 2 years ago or so, but i`m doing some work in the workshop and a display case and had a chance to finally make some pics of it.
This a hypothetical bird,made it more of a [...]
1/144 Cubana Tu-154m
I haven't got much modeling done this year due to work and family commitments, but I have managed to finish this beautiful Zvezda airliner kit. It assembles precisely, with the best fit I've ever experienced in a small scale airliner kit. [...]
Tamiya 1/25 Scale Cenurion Tank
Firstly let me apologise for the poor pictures, I will post better ones when I get back home from the Congo.
This Centurion tank kit was released by Tamiya in 1973.
The was a tank given to me to build from a friend of mine Tappie Scholtz [...]
