Pegasus 1/72 LCVP
D-Day and the Normandy campaign just seem to fascinate me endlessly. My son and I wanted another landing craft for our tabletop battles, and this LCVP was a well manufactured, […]
1/72 D-Day Sherman M4 by Heller
This M4 Sherman is a little gem of a kit.
“Operation Cobra” Battle Set in 1/72
My son (now 12) and I have enjoyably collected several of these Italeri battle sets over the last four years: El Alamein, Arras, Bastogne, Stalingrad, and this one, Operation Cobra. […]
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 […]
Airfix 1/72 Bristol Blenheim Mk I
Though I definitely made some mistakes with it — and made a camouflage choice some may find questionable — I really enjoyed building this Airfix kit.
Part II: Revell 1/72 V-2 Rocket with SS-100 Gigant Transporter
This build represents something of a departure from my usual staples of ships, planes and tanks.
The V-2 Rocket in Miniature, Part I: A Brief History
On June 20, 1944, as the Western Allies were pouring reinforcements into their Normandy bridgehead and the Red Army was about to launch Operation Bagration, its Wehrmacht-shattering summer offensive in the East, a portentous first was taking place above Nazi Germany.
1/72 Kawasaki Ki-61-Id Hien 飛燕 (Tony)
As I’ve written several times on this blog, I am a big fan of Tamiya’s 1/72 Scale War Bird Collection. I really appreciate the fact that these kits achieve what […]
1/72 Eduard F6f-5 Hellcat
This beautiful Hellcat kit was a pleasure through and through.
Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima Ki-44-II Shōki 鍾馗 (Tojo)
I discovered that the name “Shōki” perfectly reflects this aircraft’s mission, which was to intercept attacking bombers at high altitude, because Shōki was a protective deity of Chinese origin known as “the Demon (or Plague) Queller.”
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