Tamiya scale model kits
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Built straight OOB. No problems, just a fun little kit to build while I'm recovering from illness.
Few things i DONT like about this kit is the gaping chasm where the driver should be if, as i did, you build it with the hatch open, and [...]
This is Tamiya's aging 1/48 "Rufe",(released in 1973!)
Its a nice, simple build out of the box, and with a little help, can look quite presentable.
I tweaked it with lots of weight in the front of the float, added Eduard's [...]
After a longer pause and for some diversion between all the aircraft, my dad built a little armour model.
Great Tamiya kit, falls together, painted with Tamiya XF-60/62/64
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First, a little background.
In the spring of 1944, the Czech Government in exile in London and various resistance groups began to believe that the German occupation forces had been sufficiently depleted by the war on the Eastern Front that [...]
Ciao, hear the diorama ready for my friend Nicola. The situation is at the crossroad in Libya.
Nicola was very happy for the results and….me too.
Ciao Paolo
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What can you say about the Mustang model from Tamiya? A model from over twenty years ago, which I believe, defends itself very well today. After an exciting end of the year, I took up something simple and nice. Santa came out to [...]
Another kit built for my son, BUT, I'm keeping it!
Built OOB apart from the logs which i "borrowed" from my neighbours tree to hide a blemish in the paint job (thumb print)
Overall I'm happy with the finish, just wish i could get [...]
A few years back I decided to construct a Diorama of a German 88 at the battle of the Kasserine pass. I had a Tamyia German Flack 88 North African campaign kit. The barrel was warped so I get a replacement metal barrel from Abner which was [...]
This kit sat in the storage closet for 15+ years I'm glad I finally got to it as it is a fabulous kit. The only aftermarket items used were Master gun blast tubes, Kits of the World 3D seatbelts and Superscale Decals. Polyscale and [...]