Images of War: The Fall of Berlin
IMAGES OF WAR: THE FALL OF BERLIN is a richly detailed photographic record of the German military in 1945.
Tamiya Warbirds Collection #49: North American P-51D
I hadn’t built a P-51 in about 30 years. But I seem these days to be redoing a lot of models that I used to think I “already had one” of — and you’ve got to have at least one P-51 in your A-List collection.
1/700 Japanese Harbor Diorama With Submarine Depot Ship Heian Maru
So here we feature our newest ship, Heian Maru, an ocean liner converted to wartime service.
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Bubbletop” in 1/72
Along with the RAF’s Typhoon fighter-bomber, the wide-ranging P-47 was the scourge of enemy aircraft, infrastructure and vehicles.
1/72 Aircraft “In Flight” Part 2
These photos are for those planes in my collection that I built with landing gear up so they could fly in the outdoor toy-soldier wars I used to run with my friends in the ’70s.
1/72 F4u-1 “Birdcage” Corsair Diorama
Most airplane enthusiasts admire the Corsair to this day. My ’70s gang and I practically worshiped it.
1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Junyo
Junyô was considered a “lucky” ship because it actually survived hostilities, unlike virtually all of its contemporaries. Torpedoed near Nagasaki at the end of 1944, Junyô spent the rest of the […]
1/72 P-61B Black Widow
Kit by Hobby Boss.
The Arras Counter-attack, 1940
Making ample use of eyewitness accounts from war diaries on both sides, and with a wealth of maps and photos in support, Arras Counterattack: 1940 follows developments from the British assembly areas and start lines to their high-water marks and Rommel’s improvised defense and riposte, achieving an immediacy that conveys to readers something very close to “what it was really like” on that day nearly 80 years ago.
1/72 Zeroes: A6M5 “Zekes” as Seen in “The Eternal Zero” 「永遠のゼロ」
The “Zeke” models pictured here are actually based on the aircraft in The Eternal Zero. Tamiya came out with a version of the A6M5 with decals to match the squadron shown in the film.
