Tamiya scale model kits
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M5A1 Stuart Tamiya 1/35 kit
This was my first armour kit when I started out a while ago. It is OOB with no experimenting. It is hand painted with Model Master acrylic olive drab and black tracks. There is no weathering other than a black wash and some [...]
KV II Tamiya 1/35 kit
This is an OOB build to start my first experiments with weathering. I used MIG Russian earth pigments to make the mud for running gear and lower hull. Dark gray paint for chips on the top coat and black pastels for exhaust stains. I [...]
1/24 Tamiya 1996 JACCS Honda Accord
This is Tamiya's Honda Accord, which is a "curb-side" model, and comes with a ton of decals for the JACCS racing team car, which ran in the 1996 Japenese Touring car series. I picked mine up as one of our club's "$1.00 [...]
Tamiya 1/35 Scale Panzerkamfwagen VI Tiger I (Early Production)
I bought this model at a garage sale for $1.50. The box was crushed and water damaged, most of the parts had been twisted off the sprues and hand painted some sort of grey color that was nowhere near anything painted on a WWII German [...]
Honda's upside down racer
Hi folks, this is the kit that imodeller kindly supplied as my prize from July. It's a model of Honda's 1984 World Championship challenger , as ridden by American Freddie Spencer. For 1984 Honda decided to investigate the improved [...]
Tamiya 1/48 P-51Ds
Some Tamiya 1/48 P-51Ds,
Glenn Eagleston's "Eagle", 353rd FS, 354th "Pioneer Mustang" FG.
"Grim Reaper" - 356th FS, 354th FG (I would love to see some warbird owner do this on a flyer)
Bud Anderson's "Old [...]
A pair of Yamahas
The Moto GP world was surprised when hearing the news that three times world champion Valentino Rossi was moving from Honda to Yamaha for the 2004 season. Yamaha had developed their 2003 machine and were ready to take over the crown from [...]
Legato 1/72 Curtiss P-40E Warhawk, Tamiya 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb Trop, Revell 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc.
Just a few desert camo RAF aircraft. All oob builds, the Legato P-40 kit was hard work but turned out ok and has a good shape, the Tamiya kit as usual was a dream and the keenly priced Revell kit fitted together really well, happy enough [...]
1/72 Tamiya Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb, 1/72 Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia.
My collection of Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane's Spitfires so far. Mk.Vb UD W AB972 (Tamiya), Mk.IIa UD W P8038 (Airfix) and Mk.Ia YT W R6818 (also Airfix).
1/72 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt
Not a completely accurate depiction of Lt. John Godfrey's P-47, changed a couple of little things to suit what I wanted to build, dropped the emblem and made him an ace.(I know he clocked up around 16.33 kills but in Aeromasters Debden [...]
