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Portuguese Spitfire Mk.I; Tamiya 1/72
Finished over a year ago, a small 1/72 Spitfire in Portuguese colors. Almost a weekend project.
Gunze paints and homemade decals.
A nice, relaxed build for a rainy weekend.
And yes, the code was like that, port and starboard different... [...]
1:48 Tamiya P-38G Lightning
I’ve wanted to build a P-38 for a while and have had the Tamiya P-38 F/G kit in my stash for about a year. I chose Lt. John G. O’Neill’s “Beautiful Lass” as the subject. I’ve always thought P-38s looked much better in flight [...]
Video: The Aesthetic Model
This is the third of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. I explain what I discovered about the essence of the elegant shape of the P-38. More importantly, how it relates to [...]
Video: It Starts With a Vision
This is the second of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. It was the beginning of an understanding that a vision may not always be the building experience.
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Video: Making Space
This is the first of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. As it turned out, it was an extremely enlightening experience.
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Tamiya 1/48 HE-219A-7 'Uhu'
This is Tamiya's HE-219 'Uhu'. Belts and rear cockpit details were added, as well as opening the wing and tail heater exhaust, detailing the wheel wells, adding brake lines, and opening up the torque links. Nav lights are colored Bingo [...]
Converting Tamiya's 1/32 Spitfire to Mk. IXE
The conversion relied on the availability of spare parts in Tamiya's IXC boxing to represent the later IXE, such as elevators, rudder and clipped wings. Scratch work involved the conversion of the C to E wing. I modified the gun bay area [...]
What has Rob been building, the past....year?
Man I realized I was doing most of this build on FB and forgot my iModeler community! Long story short, my youngest daughter gave me a 1/35 Tamiya Sherman last October for my birthday, my granddaughter gave me a Tamiya Jeep for [...]
Bf-109 E-4 Trop and Kubelwagen diorama
My Tamiya 1/48 Bf-109 E-4 Trop and Kubelwagen diorama, finished last Dec 2023, has been waiting for some photos. Here, at last!
Insignias and national marks were masked and painted. A lot of work but I thinks it worth it (see notes on [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat
This is a nice kit and goes together well. I only had two issues. The canopy sits too high so I had to file off the bottom to make it sit lower. The bushing inside the engine did not seat properly so the propeller shaft would not [...]
