Showing posts with label Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Academy. Show all posts
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Keeping it Simple: Academy’s Hellcat

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When the weather has hit 112 F out there and you need AC and fan in combination to get through the day, you don’t want heavy, complicate...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Kit Review: Academy (Tamiya) StuG IV, #1332

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It was about a year ago that I was posting on building this kit and being stunned to find that Academy had thieved most of their early range...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Kit Review: Academy’s M51 Isherman (#1373)

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When Academy learned their craft and got over the period when they pirated Tamiya’s range to flesh out their own (no, I will never forget or...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Rusting Metal

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Creating convincing rust is an artform, every armour modeller knows how, and there are a plethora of techniques. Oil pinwash creates very co...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

I’m Stunned

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I could say I’m disgusted, bemused or distressed, just the same. Even naïve… I read on a net forum last night that there was never a busines...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Kits That Build Themselves (Almost)

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Late in 2009 I built Tamiya’s old StuG IV kit (35087) and was delighted with the easy-build characteristics of the 1970s approach to kit eng...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

I Feel Like Building A Model… NOT Painting It!

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 Have you ever had the feeling that one part of your artistic creativity is in conflict with another? There have been occasions when I had a...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Why do so many companies have trouble with tracks?

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Tracks... All armoured vehicles over a certain weight have them. They come in endless styles, narrow ones, broad ones, cleated tracks, padde...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Product Review: Bison Decals

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 In the modern hobby environment new decal manufacturers seem to spring up every time you blink, but that goes to underline the fact that th...