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That is a very nicely made set . That last picture is just amazing!

Here two more land vehicles; Here I post the ZIS-5V truck my father built, which I helped with the weatherings, and creating the driver. Driver was made out of various body parts, with a sculpted fur cap. A rather old model kit, but that it still looks good once completed, with not too much flash, and pieces fitting acceptably. Painted as a real snow camo found in the net. The windows ended up a bit frosty, so I added the mud accordingly to conceal that fact . This is my scratchbuilt Marmon-Herrington. Made a very long time ago, I recently restored it. Not perfectly accurate, but it was fun. Absolutely everything is scratchbuilt, even wheels, guns, etc. Basically everything is clear plastic from packaging, etc. Wheels are casted in resin. Before restoring my own build;

I did post here a long time ago, regarding a kit I bought; in a good closing down sale, I managed to buy a very cheap 1/32 Arado Ar 168, and decided to keep it and give it as a present to my father. Unfortunately, when he was going to start building it, parts were missing! the quality control at revell had not noticed about 3-4 sprues missing! never something like that had happened to me, after buying thousands of kits. It was lacking canopy, bombs, engine doors, and most important, the floats. By this time the shop had already packed and closed down, so no claim there. (all the same, the very nice chap that bought the shop, gave me a free model in compensation, even if it was not his fault!). I contacted Revell, but was told that only they could send the canopy, as the Arado ar 168 was no longer in production, only the single float version. So, after browsing all the possibilities, I decided to scratchbuild with paper and cardboard the floats, after printing them from a paper model and adjusting them. My father built all the plane, and me and my brother built the floats and created the engine covers, plus giving a few extra finishes to the paintwork. The pilots came in a lot of soldiers, I believe from some very old model, but they fit wonderfully. Funnily, it is a floatplane, but better it doesn't get anywhere near water with his paper floats! P.S: Here I experimented the impossibility of taking a picture of a propeller turning round with a smartphone. Simply impossible. One needs a old style camera. I tried tweaking all the possible settings, up to no avail. Only distorted propeller effects could be gotten.

Many thanks! yes, it is rarely seen, I had to hunt it down during many hours browsing, nowadays is out of stock, and quite hard to find. I had help from my brother, which helped reduce the time applying the camo! indeed seems something from the fantasy realm! I bring you another "vehicle"; US Light Infantry Dragon; we move from the behemoth to the moth . As tiny as you can get a motor vehicle in 1/35, more or less. A interesting and nice kit, I saw it for about 5 € in a fleamarket, and to the stash it went. The good thing is that it came with another set inside! a very pleasant surprise, as a kit of just two men and a motorbike is a daylight robbery in my opinion. Always saw it for triple the price, and half the content! Got round to do it two years ago, just made proper pictures last week. Very fiddly kit, nothing really fitted in that bike, everything went on your own interpretation. The whole bunch was a wobbly bit of engineering with the polycement drying on! As I had two, I painted them in very different ways; for Kosovo, and for desert war, Iraq, Libya, you name it. I switched the heads on two of the figures.

Here I show you a model finished a good few years ago. Quite a complicated kit, huge in size, one of those special kits that are unlike anything one has built before! my first model that I airbrushed, as hand brushing all that intricate parts was daunting indeed. For those who wonder, the crew is WW2, but as one was used then, it can still be called historical . Sadly, no WW1 german artillery crewmen in scale was available then! and I think not yet, except for some very obscure resin ones. Will be posting here the rest of my 1/35 kits for easy finding.

Nice to see a more obscure tank! good weatherings.

Excellent! I love UN schemes, and the figures give a lot of life. My favourite is the water bottle! Printing your own decals isn't too hard. Harder is to find a good decal paper that works well with your printer! actually, my combination gives me kind of poor results when printing very small detailed decals.

Wonderful modelling! gives an astonishing level of realism.

Very nice kit, looks absolutely impossible it kept on the air . But is beautiful, maybe more because of that.

Wonderful, I so love obscure aircraft! this looks like that the pilot would have jumped at the possibility of defending the Japanese empire, if the occasion had appeared!

Excellent . I love what ifs, and maybe more if relatively historical and plausible. The tsar has never fallen! I agree that olive drab becomes dull quite quickly; after your 3rd or 4th, gets boring, and after your 10th, you avoid it like the plague.

Simply wonderful! bravo! history lesson and great model kit showing all in one. Never knew about this. That insignia is tremendously cool. I love that pilot. Would love to see more.

Great collection of models. I love that american "flying wing", the triebflugel, the xp 59, the northrop black bullet, wonderful. Didn't know so many obscure kits were made in 1:48. It's great you've had the chance to get them home and restore them. I have all my models solidly boxed, at least at home, but many with damage I don't bother to repair, as I know they'll break again in the next move, so awaiting a fixed place to repair all those antennas, small wheels and altimeters. BertiePsmith, gosh! that is a model kit homicide! aargh! I present voluntary to save any broken up kit , will swap for unbuilt ones!

Great! those nicaraguan insignias are lovely. I have two Texans waiting to be finished, and I might do one like this one.

So clean and perfect! I would never say it is a 1/144 model.

Thanks . Dogsbody, I'll try to post from now on larger pictures, as big as I can. Question is that I have already uploaded them as they are, but in the future, I will do them as big as possible. FrancisGL, I see, I wasn't aware of that! all the Esci models I had, none had engine, and I had quite a few. sardaukar, certainly! looks kind of unreal, so clean. Here I share you 7 more; M6 Portee; a nice little kit, for once I painted exactly the same as the box. Although it has some flaws (too high suspension), I only learned this when it was already finished! GMC Trucks; the classical trucks made by Hasegawa. Very nice and solid kits, I love the metal axles on them, and the fact they give you 3 figures with the tanker version! Ford Quad with cannon; a beautiful set, with plenty of figures. I was shocked when I opened it (it was a present) and the figures were the same than the 1/35 Tamiya which I had! anyway, this is how cannons should be sold; along with a vehicle to tow and crew to operate. Cruiser tank; this is a very old kit, one that is a bit battered after so many battles and house removals 😉 . This might be my most accurate AFV so far, the Panzerhaubitze 2000. Done in pixel camo for the Qatar army, and photoed among some figures to keep in line with the forum's theme . Finally, Stridsvagn 2000. And yes, it does exist painted like this, I have proof . Certainly, you'd have a hard time camouflaging with this colours! unless it is on Swedish national day, or in front a Ikea :xd: . But it was so fun I had to do it.

Many thanks for your comments . Bertie, certainly, accuracy is one of the great headaches of the model kit maker. One has to be very cool, to know what one really wants. I've gone from researching hours an hours only to justify what I wanted to do, to directly built what I wished how I wished without even trying to justify it . One has to strike the balance that suits better oneself. More than once, I have done something which I thought was thoroughly unrealistic (like too much armament at once) just to discover later it existed indeed! More aircraft; Sukhoi jet, 1:48; the only aircraft I've made in this scale. Bought it as it was cheap and there was nothing else in the model shop I didn't have. It was different, and gigantic for what I expected. I used a can of spray for the cream colour, and then hand brushed the camouflage. Douglas Boston Frog; how wonderful were the frog models, with so many moving parts and mechanisms. Maybe not accurately detailed, but fun to build. Martin Baltimore; built by my father, this although a Frog kit, was a bit of a poor fit, and here the lack of detail is quite clearly seen everywhere. Norwegian Spitfire; made by my brother, here maybe the lines would have benefitted from decal printing instead of handpainting! Mitsubishi Sonia x2; made by LS I think, one of those wonderful kits that gave you too aircraft. No more problem choosing camos! Supermarine Walrus; I had searched for this one for a long time. Came out to be much smaller than what I expected.

Wonderful result! great lorry.

Very cool, that cruiser tank is wonderful!

Thanks . Indeed, of the many years I lived in Spain, it only snowed 3 days where I lived. The last time I was prepared and I took pictures of my models . I bring you a few more AFVs;   D-37 Russian Armoured wagon; a small nice kit from UM Models. Very unusual model, as you hardly see such obscure themes, and with a decent price tag too. I managed to find a good interesting camo to escape from the typical green. M-3 White; this I got through Revell's reissue. It is 1/76, and is very noticeable when placed along the Hasegawa true 1/72, but is still nice, more as it is the Flak version. Sherman Italeri; I believe a Esci reissue. It's really very impressive as to how the engine is made and represented in such a tiny scale! I believe it is a 1/35 kit, shrunk. The pilot is fun, although he seems a bit a cross between a zombie and a robot! Finnish T-26 early tank; another UM models. Wonderful to be able to build such obscure kits, and for a forgotten belligerent side like Finland! T-26, Flamethrower; this is the flame shooting variant, for the Red Army. I was googling a long time to find a russian camouflage that was different to what I had built previously.   AEC Matador halftrack; here I had one of those rare chances to do a conversion without spoiling kits; I had two old kits, with various missing parts, and while googling possibilities, I stumbled onto a impressive real wartime photo of this, a half tracked AEC Matador. Apparently, it was only a prototype, but I've stretched it to depict it reached the desert (one never knows!). The actual prototype depicts some more sturdier tracks, but it was tried onto a Chevrolet with Bren Gun tracks, so I figured that was good enough. Sturer Emil; famous prototype, which reportedly reached a large amount of kills. Here there is just I think 2 ways of painting it, and I left it grey so it was the one of the ace.

Hello all . I have decided to start a thread to include all my aircraft kits, easier to find and keep the thread. Some are rather old builds that might not attract much attention, but decided to make a photo recollection of everything . This includes kits made by my father and my brother, which I have probably contributed in some part or other . Hope you enjoy the thread. Let's start; Estonian Hawker Hart 1/72; brand; myself . I made a Hawker Fury out of wood, just for the fun of it, and my brother asked me for one, so I decided to make the Hawker Hart, as I could not get a kit of it (much before the internet), and the measurements were akin to the Fury. It's not meant to be exact nor precise, just for the fun of it; Macchi Folgore 1:35; brand; myself again Scratchbuilt with wood made many years ago... with olive wood as fuselage. Pilots were made of bodyputty. Made around 2003, before any regular kit was released. It was a tremendously tiring job, I was nearly a whole summer doing it . Again, not exact, built for the fun of modelling in days when I had no internet. And now onto more regular stuff; Thunderbolt Heller; I didn't have this version, so I bought on the cheap on internet. I sprayed it with chrome, to try and get the shiny effect. A quick build. Morane Saulnier for China; I wanted to do it operational, and China was my best bet apparently. To note that I tried to hand paint the decals, and wasn't very lucky with it, I might redecal it one day. Potez 534; a kit built a good few years ago, quite tricky, this is the Heller version. PZL P37 "Los"; what I believe was my first kit bought on the internet . I was thrilled to find such a rare aircraft! I had never seen it in a physical model shop. PZL P11; bought along the Los at the same time. It was a bit of a basic build, now being more than 10 years old.

So very cool and different! excellent kit, wonderful to see.

I am left speechless by the last collection photograph! refreshing to see so many German aircraft in british markings, when usually what is built is the opposite . Great job. So, do you also build german aircraft with german markings, and other airforces?

Very realistic, wonderful photography. I specially like the worn out colour of the blue roundels.

Very cool build, never seen a kit of it.