Tamiya scale model kits
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I had the privilege of commanding No 3 Squadron RAAF at Butterworth, Malaysia in 1979-1981, so when Tamiya came out with its superb 1/32 P51D kit, I just knew I had to make a model of one of the types flown by my old squadron during [...]
Ok, here are some Apple 4 cell phone shots from the workbench of my latest and not quite finished Tamiya Challanger II. Tamiya arcylics, with a MIg modern armor brown wash...Tamiya and MIg pastels to come soon, and still some decals and [...]
VF-17 Jollyrogers US Navy Built out of box with the exception of lead foil seat belts
This is 1/48 Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc finished with the markings of ML296, DU-N flown by F/Lt Otto Smik, No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, North Weald AB, Late August, 1944. Eduard s Profipack kit was the prize of iModeler Best in Show – [...]
Here is a Dragon Stug III "Smart Kit" with a Dragon Loading tank crew. Both are out of the box, and I just added a little bit of chain and that's about it. Like everything else I have been doing, painted with Tamiya Acrylics and [...]
This is the Tamiya 1/35th scale French UE armored carrier, built straight out of the box with lots of different accessory items from Verlinden, Tamiya and the spare parts box. I wanted to try a little diorama so I used Custom Dioramincs [...]
Another oob build. This is said to be more accurate than the Tamiya version but not as easy going as the Tamiya. Still it is not difficult to build, and would recommended it.
I wanted to start contributing with some 1/72nd scale armor I did a couple of years back. The first one is the Dragon LVT-4A1 from WWII and it was a joy to build and paint. Just an out of the box kit build, so I had the joy of a quick [...]
Hi All, Another oldie i built this last year its the Revell (X MPM) Meteor F4 or as we brits call
it The Meat Box.
Not a bad kit, nice surface detail the cockpit isn't great but a perfect candidate for fitting the Eduard Zoom Etch which i [...]
There is not so much to say about this model. Kit is easy to assemble and it was a really pleasure to work on it after short run kits. I wanted to try some of the weathering techniques - different filter colors, oils, pigments, etc. It's [...]