1/72 Fw190 A-3 Tamiya
I built this one concurrently with the Bf109G-6 I recently posted, and my experience was similar: I love these Tamiya War Bird Collection kits — and here, as with the […]
Category Archives: Military Miniatures
1/72 Bf109 G-6: Tamiya War Bird #90
A really nice model — like any of the Tamiya War Birds Collection that I have built — can create an interesting psychological challenge for me.
Ace Models 1/72 Schwere Kanone 18 10cm K-18
I’ve posted about other Ace Models kits before, and here’s my general experience: with kinda messy sprues and lots of little parts that tend to need cleaning up, they’re not […]
Airfix 1/72 Fw190-A8
Second of two recent Airfix Luftwaffe kits.
Airfix 1/72 Bf109G-6
This kit is another that falls into the category of “didn’t have high hopes as I was building it but love it now that it’s done.”
Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18F Super Hornet
Although I stick these days almost exclusively to World War Two subjects, I do have a small collection of later jet aircraft, and they can make a nice change of […]
1/72 Tiger I by Plastic Soldier Company
Although I try to stop myself (“No, you don’t need PSC’s Panzer IVs, too — or their STG IIIs — or any of their Russian stuff!”), I keep buying more of their kits and will probably end up having collected all of them at some point.
1/72 British in Normandy Collection
In this diorama I wanted to showcase mainly the British vehicles I have recently completed. You’ll see PSC and Airfix, with vehicles and figures from both makers, in a setting that has stone houses and a walled farm (Airfix’s La Haye Sainte!), recalling the terrain through which British forces had to battle during Operation Epsom in late June, 1944.
1/72 Plastic Soldier Company Sherman M4A4 and Firefly Tank, and 1/72 Airfix Firefly
This PSC kit contains parts for three vehicles, and as they always do, PSC gives you all the parts you need to make them all Fireflies, all 75mm Shermans, or […]
1/72 Plastic Soldier Company Universal Carrier Variants and 6-pdr with Lloyd Carrier
Plastic Soldier Company kits have been fun for my son and me to work on together. By offering two, three, four or, as in this case, seven vehicles in one […]
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