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Tamiya scale model kits

Ducati 1199 Panigale S Tricolore

Hi everyone, this is Tamiya's recent 1/12 kit of Ducati's latest attempt to conquer the super bike world. Thanks to everyone who followed the work in progress, the build stages can be seen over in Groups. The kit itself was for the [...]

1/48 P-51B Fighter Ace Capt. Edwin L. Heller "Hell -Er Bust "

Well pretty happy with my second diorama. P-51B is from tamiya and Figure from the Hasegawa WWII pilot set. All painted with tamiya paints. Cheers Brian

Tamiya 1/16 Wehrmacht Machine Gunner

Let me start by saying two things; one, this is not an aeroplane so apologies if you're disappointed and two, I really suck at taking photos! This little effort started out with a block of wood. Yes, a block of wood. One of our sons is a [...]

1/48 Tamiya Bf109 E-3 Josef Priller

1/48 Tamiya Bf109 E-3 Josef Priller

1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.VB

1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.VB

1/48 Spitfire Mk IIa

I just competed this one today. This is the Tamiya Spitfire Mk I kit. I used the Ultracast Rotol spinner and prop and Ultracast Exhausts. PE was used for the seat armor. I used Uschi rigging thread for the first time for the IFF antenna [...]

Spitfire MK Vb Tamiya 1/48 scale.

I built this model years ago, and was always disappointed in the results. Finally, a few months ago I'd had enough and pulled it off the shelf and started a restoration. I corrected a few visible seam lines and a couple other flaws in my [...]

Tamiya's 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter Mk VII

This is the later version of the several night fighter variants with the thimble nose. The model represents an aircraft from 604 Squadron, RAF, based at Church Fenton in 1943. Built straight out of the box except for a little scratch [...]

A Good Year for Corsairs

Here is my 32nd scale Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage, built to depict the prototype Goodyear FG-1 built in Akron Ohio and first flown in about June of 1943. Goodyear missed introducing the Corsair during the earlier Blue Gray and Light Gray paint [...]

Upcoming Mossie Mania

Just to have an acceptable (so: not perfect) Mossie in my 48th collection I decided to marry the venerable nearly perfect in Outline Airfix Mossie with the superbly molded Tamiya which has some severe fuselage shape issues (cross section [...]