1:48 Diorama for N.A.S. Ottumwa, Iowa

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Revell 1:48 B-25 Build

Over a year ago I was standing in the aisle looking at models with one of my sons, I was plotting a take home of P-61 kit as he was going stealth and grabbing a B-25 kit I had remarked was next on my list. We made it all the way to the checkout and …

New Resin bags from Model Bitz finishes a Pink Panther Project

Around a year ago I picked up one of the Tamiya land Rover Pink Panther kits and as some builds go it inspired a bit of a scene. The rover was primed with Vallejo Black surface primer, then their chipping medium was applied in spots I wanted to have chipped and peeled paint. Most of …

Ford Tc Armored Car Russo-Polish War 1920 1:35

There is that saying "One thing leads to another" well, when it comes to scale modeling that could not be truer. It goes without saying for a lot of us modelers, we end up learning a few things about each model we build. I am not just referring to the process of modeling but the …

Twitter D-Day Group Build #DDAYGB

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Easy Trees For Dioramas With Hobby Dude

Make trees for dioramas with just a few inexpensive items: Make trees for dioramas with just a few inexpensive items. There are 60,000 Species of real trees in the world and pre-made diorama trees only represent a fraction of that and they are clones so. A few of them can exceed the cost of the …

D-Day – Operation Overlord Twitter Group Build

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The Garage Gets Lights!

I originally wanted to set up a model car garage so display different cars, and add little things to it over time like an on-going project much like a model railroad. I had it on my shelf with a few tools and a lift I made from scratch I had posted before. I had started …

Good thing I don’t build sailboats

I would be dead in the water as many times as wind has been taken out my sails. sounds like I am whining? Well, I am and I will try and get it out of the way fast. I have a draft of a blog I wrote up about this diorama I built. It involved …

AZmodel1:72 AH-1G Cobra

The AH-1G is usually associated with Vietnam War. In fact in my mind when I saw a Huey Cobra I thought of Vietnam first but as I researched I found quite a few other countries had used them and even the Dept. Natural Resource here in the U.S. mainly for forest fire management. I found …