Tamiya scale model kits
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1st Car!
I have been in the automotive industry for over 28 years now selling and managing stores but with all that time in the business I never built a car model. Started a couple but thats for a different story. Almost done with this one, [...]
Tamiya 1:48 N.A. P-51D Kit #61040 (1995)
Another boring Tamiya. This one used another option from the Lifelike decal sheet (two to go). This aircraft was used by Capt. "Don" Gentile during a state-side war bounds tour, at Wright Patterson Field, 1945. I believe he used [...]
Giulia GTA
This is a Tamiya 1/24 scale Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA 1300. It’s my first car model after many years.
I had fun representing it with a livery that is a mix of several ones I found online. I added some wiring to the engine and [...]
Tamiya Spitfire Mk.I No. 609 Squadron, flown by Pilot Officer John Dundas, Nov. 1940
Tamiya's Spitfire Mk.I. Battle of Britain, fall 1940. John Dundas was shot down and KIA
28 November, was busy for 609 Squadron as several scrambles and alerts came through against Bf 109s. The last came at approximately 15:30. Dundas [...]
1/35 Tamiya 251/1 D mit schwerer wurfrahmen 40
Tamiya 251 “Stuka zu fuss”. Built straight from the box with some added stowage. Other than the initial paint and filter I tried using only pigments for weathering. I first made up light (exterior) and dark (interior) mixtures to [...]
Repairing the Hornet
I started this 1/700 Tamiya 1/700 U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8) in the spring of 1992 after finishing law school, and finished it the following March, complete with build info sheet. The Hornet was depicted as she appeared at the time of the [...]
Richard Bong P 38
This is a famous plane and a well known model kit- Tamiya’s 1/48 late model P 38. I built this for a friend and mailed it to him yesterday. I hope I did it justice.
Kit goes together very well except for the fit of the three piece [...]
“Silent Sentinel”: M10 Tank Destroyer
Hi All,
This vignette, “Silent Sentinel”, my tribute to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, portrays a U.S., M10 Tank Destroyer, somewhere deep in the Ardennes Forest, silently waiting to halt the oncoming German [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Swordfish Mk.I
Folded winged Swordfish is an added construction challenge. Wings dropped from the tail support in the midst of the photography session to show the delicacy of the configuration.
1/48 P-47D-22 (Tamiya) 56th Fighter Group.
My recently completed 1/48 Tamiya P-47D-22 in the markings of Button Nose/Stalag Luft III from the USAAF 56th Fighter Group.
