Tamiya scale model kits
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Hello folks, this is my very first post here and here's my 1/35 Tamiya Merkava I over vignette finished fresh. I joined the site about a week ago but this one was almost finished so i skipped the in-progress updates and here's the result. [...]
Finally finished this morning, Not much to tell that wasn't in the WIP blog.except for the propeller. I took Seamus's advice and used the "PropBlur" brass parts to make a mask the
airbrushed the prop on to a clear disk. The [...]
This is the 1/72 Tamiya Bf-109E-4. As many already know the fit of this kit is excellent. The markings are from Techmod. This was painted with Mr. Color lacquer and weathered with oils, pastels and silver pencil. Master barrels were added [...]
Flt Lt. Robert Stanford-Tuck was assigned this aircraft during the Dunkirk operation. On 23 May, Tuck opened his scoring by shooting down 2 Bf-110's and a 3rd aircraft later that day. The following day flying N3249, he shot down 2 [...]
Well starting on my second diorama. The 10HP Tilly truck is by Tamiya . Refueling cart and starter cart is from the Pro Modeler ground equipment set .
Cheers Brian
"Rawjah, Rabbit Leedah...!"
Here is Tamiya's 1/48 Spitfire Mk I. The model represents aircraft DW-O, L1043 of 610 Squadron based at Biggin Hill during the Battle of Britain. I chose this particular scheme for two reasons. One [...]
Well here it is, un veiling day.
The story so far.
The good Lady Biggles (Rose) built the Beauty, a Spitfire MK 1 (Tamiya 1/72).
Her third ever build and first solo so to speak.
Well Tamiya speaks for itself, shake the box and it goes [...]
Well, I'm not sure what time/date it is in iModeler land, but where I live it's 11;30 am on 31st October! Here's my contribution to the group build, Tamiya's 1/35 kit of the French battle tank B1 bis. Being a Tamiya kit it was easy to [...]
This is Tamiya's P-51 and it was a joy to build. The kit came in clean gray molding and the second I got it I sat right down to it. I painted everything to what Tamiya told me to and then I spent three or four days super detailing the [...]
I built this kit a while ago and it was a test bed for battle damage. The kit was one I got from an auction and it was old, with lots of ejection-pin marks, but thankfully they were all on the inside. I used a soldering iron (not a hot [...]