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Tamiya 1/48 P-47D-5
The cockpit is from True Details. The seat is from Lions Roar and the seat belts are lead foil with Waldron Buckles. The instrument panel is from eduard. Cockpit color is Model Master dark greem 34092. The engine is from Quickboost [...]
1/32 Tamiya A6M3 Type 22 converted from A6M5 Type 52
I've always loved the late model Zero with the long cowl, but at the same time thought the camo's were kinda boring. Got my hands on Tamiya's great A6M5 kit and decided to convert it to the A6M3 Type 22 flow by Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japan's [...]
Chieftain, a tank that looks the part
While helicopters may not be my favorite aircraft type, tanks are one of their main targets, and I like tanks. Maybe that explains my feelings?
The British Chieftain “main battle tank” is the first tank that earned that definition, and [...]
Stringbag Mk 1 Floatplane
Continuing the recent occasional Fleet Air Arm theme, here are a few photos of Tamiya's 1/48 Swordfish, c1940, with a record photo of the actual aircraft.
The rigging is from a Tamiya detail-up etch set. The subject is often modelled with [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Hurricane Mk.1
This is Tamiya's re boxing of the Italeri Mk.1 Hurricane, it was built with the addition of an Eduard Big-Ed set and won 1st place in the Riverside Scale Modellers October model of the month contest. Painted with Vallejo Model Air and [...]
Endgame - Berlin 1945
While I've been absent-mindedly progessing (well, we'll call it that) with my Royal Caroline wooden ship, and from time to time checking out the lovely builds on iM (and, just to keep in the loop, posting a few builds I've completed in the [...]
Me-262A-1a schwalbe 1:48 Tamiya, aires…
Hi Guys,
I want to share my next model, famous messerschmit jet engine fighter Me 262 Schwalbe. I used tamiya kit, aires detail set (engine,cockpit,control surfaces...) and photoetched parts by eduard. I also scratched all of service [...]
This one’s a ‘smoker’
It's red, it's fast, it's good looking, but it's Japanese, not Italian. This is Tamiya's 1/12 scale kit of the 2001 Yamaha works bike, it's a 500cc two stroke machine, ridden by Italian Max Biaggi. Here it is without the cowlings , and [...]
P-51D-10 “Mustang” 1/32 Tamiya
Hello,
I want to show my new model- P-51D in big scale from Tamiya kit.
Mostly I used Tamiya kit and from detail sets: HGW seatbelts, Eduard´s BigEd, Quickboost pylons and Brassin wheels. I make many details myself from lead wires and [...]
NA P-51D-25 MUSTANG “SQUIRT”
Colonel James O. Beckwith (no relation)
C/O 15th FG, 7th Fighter Command, 20th USAAF
Iwo Jima, March - May 1945
I built this model a long time ago, my best guess is sometime in the summer of 2001. I finally finished it several years [...]
