Tamiya scale model kits
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If anyone were to ask what my favorite built model is, this is it. My aviation interests span all eras of flight but only in recent years have I dared tackle some WWI subjects.
Anyone with even a passing interest in WWI aircraft has no [...]
I completed this some years ago and remember it was a real squeeze getting everything in including the full depth wheel bays.
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Built from the "Aces of the 8th" and finished with Alclad. I spent a lot of time blending the windshield and canopy and making barrels and blast tubes. I also dropped the elevators and added some extra detail to the [...]
Coincidental to Dmitry's earlier posting of his 1/72 Airfix Zeke, here is Tamiya's 1/32 A6M5 in surrender markings, completed this weekend. I bought the kit second-hand a year ago, sprues still bagged as new, and with two Eduard [...]
I have just completed this today. This is my 1/72 Tamiya A6M3 Hamp. A very nice kit in 1/72 one of the best I have built to date. As you can see I wanted to paint it in the same markings as the 1/48th one that I built years ago. Painted [...]
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Tamiya kit 1/12 : it's my first assembly of motorcycle. It is the Yamaha M1 YZR of Jorge Lorenzo with the special decoration FIAT of Estoril. The assembly was very pleasant and from the box many détails.
Thank you and see you again [...]
A bad day
20 years later...I choose to build this car for the best driver in Formula 1.
Tamiya kit from the box..with decals...not very good...i'll buid a MP4/8 Ford but with paint red fluo...
thanks olivier
The Douglas F4D-1 Skyray was the first Navy fighter that could exceed Mach 1 in level flight. It was the first carrier-based fighter to hold the world's absolute speed record, and was the last fighter built by the Douglas Aircraft [...]
Very known Tamiya model, and very easy to build. Built OOB except from seat belts made of Tamiya tape. Color is Gunze H-24 Orange yellow.
I was inspired to show this model because of George Williams’ post of April 17, of his Tamiya 1/12 Ducati 900 NCR racer.
This model was built quite a few years ago, and I just discovered it out in the garage, with the windshield and rear [...]