1/72 T-28: “Feels Like May, 1941”
I found this to be a good kit. Lots of parts, but they go together pretty well. One of the model’s best features, in my opinion, are the hard plastic […]
Category Archives: Tanks and Vehicles
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 […]
Dragon Armor 1/72 King Tigers with Fallschirmjäger
When I was younger, I would never have dreamed of duplicating a vehicle — much less the very same kit. One Tiger II was enough. Now I have seven in my collection: four that I recently built, plus one other from my youth that I repainted (those are the five you see above), as well as two others not pictured. I guess that’s what happens sometimes when you put the financial means of an adult into your hobby!
Arras 1940 1/72 Battle Set by Italeri
This is the second of these battle sets that my son and I have put together (the first one having been their El Alamein set), and we are liking them quite a bit.
1/72 S-Model A13 Mk I
I decided to try this Chinese maker of inexpensive model vehicles with this A13 kit. Their catalogue seems to include a number of early-war vehicles that are, if not exactly […]
Revell 1/72 Sowjetische Kosaken (Soviet Cossacks)
I acquired these WW2 cavalry figures over 20 years ago (undoubtedly at my old favorite hobby store, the long-defunct San Antonio Hobby Shop in Mountain View, California). To have finally finished this project after looking at the box for so many years is definitely satisfying.
El Alamein Battle Set in 1/72
Here we have made a replica of the El Alamein battle in 1/72 using Italeri’s El Alamein battle set. Not only did it come with models and buildings, but we […]
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