Model corner 2024

 

My very pre-blog model collection.

Dusty history. My AFV models from way back. 

My pre-blog model collection. Hasegawa.

My pre-blog model collection. Featuring Tamiya. Ideal beginners models in a box.

  German Sd.kfz 7/1 20mm Flakvierling.

Building a memory. German Sd.kfz 7/1 20mm Flakvierling. Checking out the box.

I remember when... Building a memory.  The Sd.Kfz.7/1 Flakvierling 38. Making the plastic into a model.

Sd.kfz 7/1 Flakvierling. building a memory from way back. Adding the peeps and the base.

More dusty history. More of my personal model memories from way back. 


WWWII German tank crew field maintenance set for my alt history.

Tamiya 1/35 British 25pdr field gun and quad gun tractor. Lifting the lid on another group build...

British 25pdr field gun and quad gun tractor.  What's in the box?

 British 25pdr field gun and quad gun tractor. Building the tractor. 

Finishing the British 25pdr with a 25pdr... 

         M5A1 light tank.          

A little beast at large in the wild. M5A1 light tank. Better get some more green paint...

M5A1 light tank. Better get even more green paint... It's build time.

Face off. German and American morter teams...

Morter teams face off.

The Horch 4 X 4 Type 1a.

Something to pull my gun with... Introducing the Horch 4 X 4 Type 1a. Peeping into the box.

Something to pull my gun with... The Horch 4 X 4 Type 1a. Building the model.

Aoshima 1/700 Bismarck. 

Another group build. The Bismarck. Aoshima 1/tiny model.

What's in the box? Bet you can't guess.

Building a beast. Aoshima 1/700 Bismarck. Another group build in the box, straight out of the box.

   Tamiya 1/35 Abrams M3/A1     

Big gun, big box. Tamiya 1/35 Abrams. Herbert Erperderp group build. 'Even bigger guns.'

Tamiya 1/35 Abrams. Building another beast.

 1/700 Tamiya. The Scharnhorst. A Shakespearian tragedy.  

Fighting gravity Tamiya's 1/700 King George V.

The group build build that never was... Checking out Tamiya's 1/700 King George V. What's in the box?

Tamiya 1/700 King George V Building a Royal.

 Japan's first  trans-cruiser Mogami. I know let's stick planes on it... Tamiya 1/700.

 Japan's first  trans-cruiser Tamiya 1/700 Mogami

Aoshima 1/700 North CarolinaAoshima 1/700 North Carolina by Hasegawa. That's the ship not the state...

 Gandam. 

Gat 105 strike gundam deactive mode.   I don't do this everyday.

Da Quiao Gundam artemie/Xiau qiao Gn archer.

Da Quiao Gundam artemie/Xiau qiao Gn archer.   

Da Quiao Gundam artemie/Xiau qiao Gn archer.

Tamiya 1/35 Panzer Kampfwagen II Ausf. F/G. Using all the keyboard letters.... 

Tamiya 1/35 Panzer Kampfwagen II Ausf. F/G. Checking  out the  box.

Tamiya 1/35 Panzer Kampfwagen II Ausf. F/G. Building the model.

Tamiya 1/35 75mm PAK 49/L46.  

Tamiya 1/35 75mm PAK 49/L46 A photo record of an incomplete project that became part of a different project... Not confusing at all...

Tamiya 1/48  Royal  Navy Sea  Harrier FRS.1.

Tamiya 1/48  Royal  Navy Sea  Harrier FRS.1. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Tamiya 1/35 Japanese medium tank. Type 97 (Chi-Ha) A photo record.

Building Tamiya's 1/35 Type 97 (Chi-Ha) Japanese medium tank. 

 Tamiya's 1/35 T34/76 Another Herbert Erperderp group build.

 Tamiya T34/76.

 Alternative History featuring a reposessed Tamiya T34/76. Checking out the contents of the box.

Tamiya 1/35 T34/76 Just another group build.

Hasegawa GR Mark 3 in 1/72.

I love the Harrier... Here we go again. Hasegawa GR Mark 3 in 1/72.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mig 27 Flogger D.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mig 27 Flogger D.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mig 27 Flogger D.  A group build with a difference... It was almost a chore...

Group build.

 Vs... 

Duel. Tamiya's Gato class submarine and Japanese sub chaser. 1/very small.

 The Duel...

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Heianmaru.  A submarine depot ship in 1/700 from Hasegawa.

Heading for a rendevous... 

Heianmaru. A submarine depot ship in 1/700 from Hasegawa.

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Tamiya  1/48 Cromwell MkIV. 

Tamiya 1/48 Cromwell MkIV. 

Looking inside the box. Tamiya  1/48 Cromwell MkIV. Many, many green paints required.

Making the Tamiya 1/48 Cromwell IV in... green.

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Tamiya 1/700 'O' class destroyer. Filling the gap.

Tammiya 1/700 'O' class destroyer. 

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SDW Heroes Verde buster team member part deux...

  Bandai Namco. Verde buster team member.

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Gandam Arsene X a Gandam with a bowler hat. 

 Gandam Arsene X. 

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1/700 Sakura byTamiya.

1/700 Sakura byTamiya. Blooming marvelous.

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Tamiya 1.700 HMS Nelson. A battleship that broke the mold.

Tamiya 1.700 HMS Nelson.  

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Duel. 
1/72 Messerschmitt Bf109 E-3 Vs  Supermarine Spitfire 1a a tale as old as time... well 1939/40 more exactly

 Vs

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Hasegawa F6F 35/5 Hellcat in 1/72. Getting the blue paint out again.

Hasegawa F6F 35/5 Hellcat. 

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A little distraction, Tamiya 1/700 WWII Japanese navy Auxiliary vessels... 

Japanese Auxiliary vessels... 

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