Showing posts with label Tamiya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamiya. Show all posts
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...
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...
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...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Recently Completed: Tamiya 1:48 F4U-1 Corsair (Birdcage), #61046

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As a modeller who tends to have something like three dozen uncompleted projects at any one time, it’s always nice to get an older one p...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Kit Review: Tamiya 1:48 Gloster Meteor F.3 (Kit #61083)

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The Gloster Meteor was Britain’s first service jet fighter and the Mk. 3, evolving beyond initial teething troubles, was deployed forward to...
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...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Kit Review: Tamiya #35156 M1A1 (ODS) MBT

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What is there to say about this kit that hasn’t been said before? Probably nothing. But it’s a good one and deserves to be revisited. It’s c...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Tracks: A Six-Part Process

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It’s been the proverbial age since I last posted, what with completing my PhD, working, and a recent trip to the UK for a conference, but I’...
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...