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1/72 Mitsubishi G4M1 (“Betty”) with Ohka

July 21, 2022by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

Over all my years of collecting and building models, I never had a Betty… until I saw this old kit in the local hobby store. I saw the price tag of $13 (you can see the sticker in my box-top image) and thought, “Now’s my chance!”

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Aircraft, Japan, Japanese

1/72 Ki-84 Hayate (“Frank”)

July 21, 2022by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

In keeping with a trend in my adult-era model-building, I am pretty much doing a new version of most models I have, including this one, which I first built around 30 years ago.

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Aircraft, Japanese, Military Miniatures

1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-51 “Sonia” Japanese Army Type 99 Assault/Reconnaissance Aircraft

June 29, 2022by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

I had one of these back in the ’70s, so when I saw the kit at the local hobby shop — in a condition and at a price that suggested it had been on someone’s shelf for quite a while before being transferred for resale — I sprang for it and recently put it together.

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Aircraft, Dioramas, Japanese, Military Miniatures

1/72 Kawasaki Ki-48-II Otsu Type 99 Light Bomber (Lily) “75th Flight Regiment”

August 11, 2021by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

Had fun making this one — though it was not a quick job by any means.

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Aircraft, Dioramas, Japanese, Military Miniatures, Photography

Japanese Tanks in 1/72 and 1/76

July 15, 2020by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

Back in the ’70s the only Japanese tank kit I was aware of was the Airfix Chi-Ha. It was the sole vehicle available to complement my Japanese infantry — also by Airfix, of course.

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Japanese, Military Miniatures, PTO, Tanks and Vehicles

Japanese Amphibious Tanks in 1/72

February 15, 2020by christopherpflueger 1 Comment

  The propeller-driven Type 2 Ka-Mi armored fighting vehicle floated with the help of two large pontoon attachments, one on the front and one on the back. When the amphibious […]

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Dioramas, Japanese, Military Miniatures, Photography, PTO, Tanks and Vehicles

1/72 Type 3 Chi-Nu Japanese Tank

December 28, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

This rendition of the vehicle by IBG models was a nice kit to build! (Stray dog not included…)

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Japanese, Military Miniatures, PTO, Tanks and Vehicles

1/700 Japanese Harbor Diorama With Submarine Depot Ship Heian Maru

November 1, 2019by christopherpflueger 1 Comment

So here we feature our newest ship, Heian Maru, an ocean liner converted to wartime service.

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Dioramas, Japanese, Military Miniatures, Photography, Ships

1/72 Aircraft “In Flight” Part 2

August 3, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

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.

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Aircraft, Japanese, Military Miniatures

1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Junyo

July 3, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

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 […]

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Japanese, Military Miniatures, Photography, PTO, Ships

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1/700 Ships

IJN Abukuma_007
IJN Kashima_018
Kirishima wake_017
Hornet wake_002
German Harbor_002
IJN Suzuya
IJN Suzuya
IJN Jingei_010
Agano_003
Junyo_010
Tamiya 1/700 OClass
Tamiya 1/700 OClass
IJN Agano
IJN Agano
DKM Gneisenau (Tamiya)
DKM Gneisenau (Tamiya)
20200718_182936
Agano_015 bw
USS Indianapolis
USS Indianapolis
Agano_028
IJN Notoro_011
DKM Bismarck (Aoshima)
DKM Bismarck (Aoshima)
U-Boote 016 dk
USS Ticonderoga 007 bw1
Shokaku_012
Hasegawa 1/700 Battleship Ise with Gold Medal Models PE Parts
Hasegawa 1/700 Battleship Ise with Gold Medal Models PE Parts
Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Eskimo
Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Eskimo
Yamato_013 P1
USS Princeton (Pit Road)
USS Princeton (Pit Road)
Mikazuki_011
HMS King George V
HMS King George V
Myoko_004
HMS Nelson (Tamiya)
HMS Nelson (Tamiya)
IJN Arashio
IJN Arashio
HMS Kelley_041
20200718_183841
Naruis Ships 015 bw
Prinz Eugen and Bismarck.
Prinz Eugen and Bismarck.

1/72 Aircraft

Ju 52 im Winter_035
phantom 001c2
storch_004
1/72 Avro Lancaster
1/72 Avro Lancaster
Bf 110 E-2 Trop_002
Hurricane I_006
F9f Panther_018
Too Late.
Too Late.
K5Y2 Type 93 Willow_002
F4u-1_Corsair_009
Swordfish_003
USAAF Resupply_B-17_006
A6M5 Zeke duo_017
F4u-1_Corsair_019
WWI Airfield_030
PV-1 Ventura_in_flight_006
SBD Dauntless_in_flight_001
in-flight shots_01 033 bw
C-47
C-47
Ju 87 B-2 Stuka_034
WWI Airfield_002
ki-48-ii_lily_in_flight-002
WWI Airfield_013
RAF Dio with Blenheim and Spits 072
a-20 011bw_640x480
Hasegawa F-104J
Hasegawa F-104J
P-61B_010
Do17E_004
F-15C Eagle_002
Italeri F-104C
Italeri F-104C
horsa-glider-with-british-paratroops_011
F4u-1_Corsair_030
Italeri F-104G
Italeri F-104G
tbf-1_002
P-51D Mustang_007
P-47D_027
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Stuka Airfield_010
academy-ju87-stuka-g-1_002
1/72 Westland Lysander
1/72 Westland Lysander
Lutwaffe Airfield_034
bf-109-e-4_017
P-47 razorback_012

1/72 Tanks and Vehicles

PzKw V Panther G_Hasegawa_004
SU-152 by PST Models
SU-152 by PST Models
Japanese Beach 085
ESCI Green Devils Fallschirmjäger_008
Jeep Heller_P1
New Tanks ii 001dk
PzKw IIIM new_004 dk
PSW 234/3 Stummel by Hasegawa
PSW 234/3 Stummel by Hasegawa
T-26-4_003 L1
Cossack Cavalry_023
a9-cruiser-cs_006
RAF Emergency and Fueling Vehicles_003
Italeri German Motorcycles and Afrika Korps_010
arras-dio-011c
arras-dio-047c
montys-grant_001
T-26 M1933_003 DK
French in France 1940_014
a13-desert_001
Chi-Nu 008
M4A1(W)VVSS_L1
Dragon 1/72 Ke-Nu
Dragon 1/72 Ke-Nu
Jagdtiger_Nr314_Trumpeter_1-72_007
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile and Mk VII
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile and Mk VII
M4 Mid Production Trumpeter_044
desert landscape 8-19-11 148a
Priest North Africa_002
rommel 012crops
rommel 006s
JS-2M by PST Models
JS-2M by PST Models
SU-76M II_002 dk
RAF Emergency and Fueling Vehicles_004
Churchill Mk III "Kingforce"
Churchill Mk III “Kingforce”
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile and Mk VII
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile and Mk VII
Cromwell_Revell_006
Tiger I_Mid_Nr131_Trumpeter_1-72_020
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Crocodile
Shermans North Africa_007
Sturmtiger_Dragon_1-72_002
Tiger I_Late_Nr112_Dragon_1-72_002
T-26 A43_003
ABM 42 47mm_003
1/72 Renault R35
1/72 Renault R35
SdKfz. 184 Elefant_007
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Mk VII
Airfix 1/76 Churchill Mk VII
PzKw IVG winter P2
Dragon 1/72 Ka-Mi w/out pontoons
Dragon 1/72 Ka-Mi w/out pontoons
RPM 1/72 Staghound II
RPM 1/72 Staghound II
RAF Airfix_018
Tiger I_Late_Nr112_Dragon_1-72_031
PzKw V Panther D_004
New Tanks 020

Sacrificing the Old (1980s)

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