Tamiya scale model kits
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Empire of Japan Group Build – Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden, Tamiya 1/48
This started out as a Shelf of Doom build for my local model club as a way of jump starting some projects that had languished for too long. My original SOD is still in the box. This model was started by a unnamed modeler who was getting [...]
F-51 Mustang "Flying Cheetahs"
In November 2020 I visited a school as part of my work as a History Subject Advisor. A memorial commemorating students that participated in wars fought by South Africa caught my eye. Amongst the many names of soldiers who served and died [...]
Two Yamaha YZF-R1s
The Yamaha YZF-R1 needs little introduction to motorcycle fans, and has been featured in these pages before by my friend Richard McStay, indeed he says it’s his favourite bike. Introduced in 1997, it featured a 1000cc engine in a [...]
Tamiya 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf.F
It was time to get back to a Tamiya kit again.. I picked up this classic 1971 tooled kit last year. I wish I had built this kit when I started modelling as a kid. It’s a great starter kit OOTB. Inexpensive & easy to build. If [...]
L'attesa
Ciao, here a small diorama with an Hetzer by Academy; the kit was very nice to built and paint. Also in this case my son made the idea and the base of dio in particulary the stones wall, he collect all the stones and glue one by one. The [...]
Herr General !!!
Ciao everybody, here some pics about an old diorama that I made 5 years ago. The veichle is Tamiya as the motorbike. The soldiers came from different brand as Tamiya, Masterbox and Dragon, The idea and the base of the dio was made by my [...]
Tamiya 1/32 A6M2 Zero
This was my second try at the big Zero from Tamiya. And I have to tell you, this is one of my favorite models. The cockpit sure looks complicated in all of its parts but they all fit together so nicely and the parts breakdown allows for [...]
1/35 Tamiya Jagdpanzer L/70 new tool
I built this a couple years back only to put it on the shelf as I really did not know what to do with it. FF to this year and a determined effort to reduce the shelf, here's what I came up with for this one.
The kit itself was flawless in [...]
Focke-Wulf Fw-190F-8 Panzerblitz Tamiya 1/48
An old shelf king revived,hope you like it!
Doodlebug! Takom 1/35 V1 Flying Bomb
In 1939 the families of London were given the option of sending their children to the country to avoid predicted raids by Luftwaffe bombers. Many returned before the Blitz when 'the phoney war' played out as a hiatus before the conflict [...]
