Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Tamiya Leopard 1A4: Like Going Home

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  I’ve neglected this blog for far too long, and have been so busy in recent years with my writing career that modelling has taken a back se...
Friday, July 5, 2024

In Appreciation of Palmtop Panzers

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Many years ago I dismissed 1:72 nd scale armour as too small to take seriously, calling them “palmtop panzers.” Well—even then I had a snea...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

A New Bit of Kit

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 I’ve not put on a new piece of “plant” in a very long time, but circumstances recently compelled me to update. For something like 35 years...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Tamegawa and the Case for Retooling

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  (This post was first published on June 1st, 2009. In the course of updating the image files for better quality and to retire Photobucket a...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Talk About Busy!

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This is less a post about modelling than about the reason for the absence of that quantity--this has been an exceptionally busy year for me ...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Long Time, No See!

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 I last posted here nearly two years ago, and that's crazy, I'm the first to admit! What happened, you ask? Well, in a nutshell, my ...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

It Worked!

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Sometimes the manufacturers really do know what they’re talking about… I’ve been working on Tamiya’s 1:12 th scale Suzuki Katana off an...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Kit Review: MPC/Round 2 Space: 1999 MK. IX Hawk

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I can’t remember the last science fiction model kit I completed. I have a few in my stash but I actively can’t remember completing one ...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Recently Completed: Fujimi 1:72 F-86F (Kit No. F-18)

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I’ve only done two Sabres previously – the Airfix F-86D when I was a kid, and the Matchbox F-86A at a teenager. The Sabre is a very ele...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A Proud Moment!

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It’s always nice when one’s hobby output is appreciated by others, and this week (first week of March, 2019) a rare pleasure came my wa...