Tamiya scale model kits
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Screaming Goat!: Revell 1/24 Pontiac ’69 GTO
Revell 1/25 Pontiac '69 GTO, built OOB.
I used Testor's rattle can enamel for the exterior, and Tamiya acrylics for the rest.
A fun kit of something different, and my first of 2015.
A lot of mistakes, but it was fun to use Bare Metal Foil [...]
Trumpeter P-40B Curtis Tomahwak
Hi all,
This model was buit long time ago,. The 1/32 P-40 from Trumpeter is quite cheap so the details and accurracy are not up to today standard. No aftermarket was used, OOB with lots of extra details especially the engine and cockpit. [...]
Review: Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1A Corsair
Designed in response to a Bureau of Aeronautics request for proposal in February 1938, for a single-engine fighter with a top speed over 350 mph, a landing speed of 70 mph and a range of 1,000 miles, Vought’s XF4U-1 Corsair was supposed [...]
1/48 Hasegawa F6F-5 Hellcat
This Hellcat was flown by Texas pilot Arthur "Ray" Hawkins of VF-31 on the USS Cabot in September, 1944. I added an Obscureco cowl, Quickboost engine, and Squadron canopy. The pilot figure was bashed together from my parts [...]
Challenger 1 mk 3
I've been promising this one for a while! Sorry for the delay, I thought this would be finished ages ago, but you know how it is! Plus I thought I'd best leave it for a bit after Bernd's show winning Challenger, I wasn't in a hurry to [...]
BF 109 E-3 Tamiya 1/48 scale
This is a BF 109 E-3. German 109s are a bit of an obsession with me. I love them all. I built and brush painted this one by hand using Model Master enamels. I did not follow the recommended call outs for the camo. I used RLM 70/71 [...]
Burn Up That Quarter Mile...Monogram's "Forty Niner" Dragster
On a visit to my folks house (where I grew up) I came across another piece of my childhood, the remnants of a "Forty Niner" rail dragster. In the early 1960's Monogram offered a line of 49 cent car kits, aimed at the low end kit [...]
Tamiya A-1J 1/48
Hi all,
I present to you my A-1J 1/48 from Tamiya. The build was finished in 2013 with lots of scratchbuild such as engine an wing fold,cockoit details. Only decal was Aftermarket,the model was finished with Gunze Color.
All comments are [...]
Dragon 1/32 Me109-E4
My latest creation. This is an incredible kit, which I have built pretty much OOB. The box is crammed with parts and quite a few spares, which mainly refer to the engine for Dragons Bf110 in the same scale. Levels of detail and [...]
M2 A2 Tamiya 1/35th scale circa 2002ish.
Well I thought I would post this build from about 2003.
My mother retired from work and decided to take me on holiday.
We went to Guernsey (one of the Channel Islands), we had spent time there before.
Anyhow, I brought this kit as a [...]
