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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 [...]
The SUPERMARINE Type 300 Conversion 1/48 Tamiya – Paragon
Fifteen years ago I got a December 1999 Aircraft Modeller magazine International "special" SPITFIRE.
By that time a good kit of Tamiya Spitfire mk.1 and 1/48 Plans and article in this journal
with a set of photographs in books [...]
Gloster Meteor III by Tamiya (1/48 scale)
My Meteor represents the first of this type to fly in Australia. Serial was originally EE427 but changed to A77-1 by the RAAF Intended for familiarisation & trials, it survived from June 1946 to February 1947 when it was somewhat [...]
Tamiya 1/48 JEEP
This is not my usual build vehicles and tanks but I get order to make 5 jeep in 1/48 in various configurations..
Made without significant Detailing only used the roof, which is left over from the previous build Hasegawa Willis.
The [...]
1/48 Tamiya Preping for night mission over Germany
Well Mosquito diorama complete. This was very enjoyable and fun experience . Tamiya Mosquito , Tilly Truck and figures. Starter and fuel cart by Promodeler. All painted with Tamiya paints.
Cheers Brian
TAMIYA 1/48TH SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE Mk.Vb, RAF, ETO
Tonight we have my first completed build for 2015. First started in December, it was completed in January. Rather quick for me really, but this kit is really a straight forward easy to assemble model. As most know this who have built [...]
