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Tamiya Warbirds Collection #49: North American P-51D

November 16, 2019by christopherpflueger 4 Comments

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.

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Aircraft, D-Day, Military Miniatures, Photography, U.S.

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

November 1, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a 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

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Bubbletop” in 1/72

August 4, 2019by christopherpflueger 2 Comments

Along with the RAF’s Typhoon fighter-bomber, the wide-ranging P-47 was the scourge of enemy aircraft, infrastructure and vehicles.

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Aircraft, D-Day, Dioramas, military history, Military Miniatures, North Africa, Photography, U.S.

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

1/72 F4u-1 “Birdcage” Corsair Diorama

July 5, 2019by christopherpflueger 3 Comments

Most airplane enthusiasts admire the Corsair to this day. My ’70s gang and I practically worshiped it.

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Aircraft, Dioramas, Military Miniatures, Photography, PTO, U.S.

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

1/72 P-61B Black Widow

July 2, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

Kit by Hobby Boss.

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Aircraft, Dioramas, Military Miniatures, U.S.

1/72 Zeroes: A6M5 “Zekes” as Seen in “The Eternal Zero” 「永遠のゼロ」

May 30, 2019by christopherpflueger 4 Comments

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.

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Aircraft, Book Reviews, Dioramas, Japanese, military history, Military Miniatures

Airfix WWII USAAF Bomber Resupply Set

May 28, 2019by christopherpflueger Leave a comment

A very nice recent addition to the Airfix product catalog, shown here with my Academy B-17G.

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Aircraft, Dioramas, Military Miniatures, U.S.

1/700 IJN Seaplane Tender Notoro 能登呂

May 19, 2019by christopherpflueger 1 Comment

Shiretoko Class, completed as oiler, 10 August 1920; converted to seaplane carrier, 1924; re-converted to oiler in 1942; damaged in 1943 and 1944; used as floating fuel storage in Singapore; broken […]

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Japanese, Military Miniatures, Ships

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