1/72 Kawasaki Ki-61-Id Hien 飛燕 (Tony)
As I’ve written several times on this blog, I am a big fan of Tamiya’s 1/72 Scale War Bird Collection. I really appreciate the fact that these kits achieve what […]
As I’ve written several times on this blog, I am a big fan of Tamiya’s 1/72 Scale War Bird Collection. I really appreciate the fact that these kits achieve what […]
I discovered that the name “Shōki” perfectly reflects this aircraft’s mission, which was to intercept attacking bombers at high altitude, because Shōki was a protective deity of Chinese origin known as “the Demon (or Plague) Queller.”
This new harbor diorama has been brewing for a few years. My son and I have put together a couple of other ones using the same diorama base, but this […]
I have always loved miniature ships, from the most distant memories of the bathtub, to maritime museums wherever I might find them around the world, to these tiny, patience-trying (but […]
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!”
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.
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.
Had fun making this one — though it was not a quick job by any means.
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.
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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