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Building the 1/8th Scale Tamiya Suzuki RGV-L
There is something to be said about building out of one's comfort zone. I know absolutely nothing about racing motorcycles (and still don't), but I have seen some built here on imodeler and thought they looked incredible. So when I ran [...]
Brabham -BMW BT 50
The old Tamiya kit of the beautiful Brabham from Gordon Murray, win with Nelson Piquet in formula 1 grand prix.
Easy build and nice details level .
see you soon
Tamiya 1/48 P-51B "Captain Don S. Gentile" and A-36 dirtied up
F.D.R. called him "Captains Courageous"...maybe that's why his plane was called "Shangri-La"
D-Day Group Build – 1/48 Wildcat V
Here we are a month after D-Day and I've called this one done. I must admit I'm unsure if this aircraft was used at Normandy or only at the invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon 15 August '44), but be that as it may...Tah [...]
1/48 Corsair II JT422
This is the Tamiya F4U-1A kit suitably modified to FAA Corsair II standards. I clipped the wingtips, added the 3 fuselage air scoops found on RN Corsairs, and added a British whip antenna set up. JT 422 was a Goodyear built Corsair and [...]
1/48 Dragon Junkers Ju-188A2
This is the 1/48 Dragon Junkers JU-188A2 with the markings of 3E HK from II KG/6. This Ju-188 was found abandoned at Melsbroek in Belgium (1944).
Cockpit components painted to RLM 66 and modified by CMK seats.
The upper fuselage and [...]
Yekîneyên Parastina Gel T-55
The T-55 from Tamiya, out of the box. Much of this text is from my YPG T-72 article (q.v.), and I have taken a similar approach to weathering this kit.
In the ongoing Syrian civil war, the largely Kurdish west of the country is less of a [...]
Tamiya 1/48 P-47 Bubbletop in Gabby Gabreski’s markings
Well, usually I like to build things with slightly unusual markings, but this time around was different. My son was interested in building a P-47 with Gabreski's markings, and started in on the Hobby Easy 1/48 kit (which includes those [...]
Yekîneyên Parastina Gel T-72
The T-72 from Tamiya. In the ongoing Syrian civil war, the largely Kurdish west of the country is less of a conflict between the Free Syrian Army and Assad, and more of a conflict between the "Islamic State Of Iraq and the [...]
