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Hi ladies and gents. This build started last year in the early spring. It was a tough one to complete and the last smaller bits was glued on today. The kit and convertion parts were bougt before Kinetic did a refined version of their F-16 MLU in 1/48 scale, so it’s the Tamiya C version converted to an MLU. The tamiya kit was upgradet with Kasl Hobby vertical fin and Black Dog’s resin open electronics and armament bays. While the Black Dog details are really very good, the fit is terrible. I took breaks many times during the build, but now it’s finished and i think it came out ok but not perfect at all. I’m now working on a semilar project in 1/32 scale as part of the F-16 GB here on BM. So far the 1/32 build is much more enjoyable. Thanks for stopping by.
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Hi everybody, calling all Corsair maniacs experts for this build, such as @corsaircorp and @Corsairfoxfouruncle just to name the two I'm more familiar with I always loved the Corsair, but know very little about it, so any help, hints, tips, references and pointers will be greatly appreciated This is more of a bookmark than an actual start, I still need to study some proper documentation about the subject, anyway here are a few pics. The kit: It's the well known Tamiya 1/48 box - I don't think there's much to say about it, anyway here are the sprues: The second pilot figure, in the "jumping on board" pose, is very tempting... Clear parts Decals (as usual, I plan to use very few of them ) and the scheme I want to reproduce, Jolly Rogers' BIG HOG Actual works to start soon-ish, I may venture into a foray in another field of modelling before/along this, we'll see. Meanwhile, I'm all ears Ciao Edit: I almost forgot to add that my friend @corsaircorp had sent me some resin bits to tart up this build: I'm not sure if I'll be using the whole engine or just replace the crankcase of the kit with the resin one - definitely going to use the resin seat, though
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First Beaufighter, picked up cheap from a vendor at SMW. Thought it would be an interesting build; I am trying to broaden my repertoire. Only Spitfires, Mosquitos and a Hurricane so far. adding some extras: Not installing the pilot and gunner as I'm adding some aftermarket details ... going to make a small diorama instead. I know I'll only need two crew... undecided which ones. Making a start: Cut away the control panel, quite detailed 3rd party to replace that. I'll get it smooth later... A quick prime. and I'll crack on with some interior green tomorrow.
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My first entry for this GB is the Tamiya 1/72 kit of the F-16C Block 50. Just look at all the Tamiya loveliness here! There are two of these sprues. The kit was marketed in two boxings, one with "full equipment" i.e. stores for the SEAD role. The other didn't have the stores. I find this rather bizarre as the stores seem to be moulded onto the same sprues as some major airframe components such as the tailplanes. I wonder if Tamiya moulded a seperate sprue with these parts for the second kit. If so, that seems a little counter-intuitive. Why not just mould on the stores together on one sprue and leave it out of the second kit altogether? It also seems as though Tamiya originally had the intention of producing a T-bird version and versions with the earlier smaller intake. I wonder why they didn't. I will be building this one in the current Have Glass V scheme, in the markings of 148 FW of the Minnesota ANG based at Duluth AFB. The Have Glass scheme will be far easier to replicate on an F-16 than an F-35 as there are no RAM tapes to laboriously mask. I think the model will have a lot of contrast and vsual interest as the nose come, pylons and stores are all in their original colours. The decals will be from FabScale, a company which is new to me.
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Everything has officially arrived for my next project minus a ResKit exhaust nozzle/engine which got here this evening after the picture was taken. If you're familiar with my work, you know I primary build WW2 prop aircraft, but I recently built an F-104 and loved it.... So much so, that I wanted to build another jet and decided to go with an F-16 Aggressor. I decided to go with the green varient as I rarely see it modeled. I’m a sucker for abnormal/unique schemes and that is no different here. A few images of the real aircraft - I am hoping to complete this project before the new year. Wish me luck!
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Hi everyone, I will build the Tamiya 1/72 F-16CJ. I am sure there will be many more of these being built. I won’t make it too spectacular, as I don’t really have the skills yet. I will build the Warhawks 52nd FW commander version OOB without additional extras. I am quite excited about this build, not only because this will be my first GB on Britmodeller, but - as funny as it sounds - this is the first time I will be building a Tamiya kit. I am sitting on needles. 😁 We only have to sleep 9 times before we can start.
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Hello chaps, Waiting my dental scanner to work again soon and help me so to get convincing wipers that will add the final touch to my Ford Mustang Indy 500 Convertible at 1/16 scale... ... I begin here a new thread dedicated to my next build, the Porsche 934 Vaillant Tamiya at 1/12, a big scale! For this build, I decided to buy the expensive Scale Lab detail set, hoping this set will allow me to get a very nice result, even if I am sure you can get a fine one just with the Tamiya kit. Will this set worth it? I will give you my opinion independently. This set was bought on Spotmodel, it is about 300€, much more expensive than the Tamiya kit itself so (about 140€). Below are some pics of both boxes and their contents: The first impression with the Tamiya kit is very good despite its quite old age, 1976, it has been reissued more recently with a PE detail set and a Cartograf decal sheet (both very nice!). The Scale Lab detail set is impressive with 9 PE plates, resin parts and a sheet of masks for the windows frame painting job. It will require a careful study before use because the instructions sheet above seems to me somewhat succinct... Well, I hope I'm wrong on that point, we shall see. A word about the choice of the Porsche 934 Vaillant: as usual, the choice for a model is for me first aesthetic. From this point of view, I could have chosen the Jägermeister version, orange (I love this color) but I ever have the huge 1/8 Pocher Lamborghini Aventador in nearly the same color. This Light Cobalt Green (lighter than what the Tamiya box-art suggests imho) is though also quite to my taste, in addition to be more original. It is also very possible that the name "Vaillant", even if it is here just a sponsor (Vaillant was and is still today a heating systems manufacturer), resonated in me and more or less consciously recalled the adventures of Michel Vaillant, famous racing driver in the comic books albums of Jean Graton (the French and Belgian members of this forum will understand me very well). Looking in the Net, I found a pic of this Vaillant version showed at Autoworld Brussels. Pity, when visiting this nice car museum last year, the car was missing... The documentation will be consequently quite poor, a priori... For the paint, I decided to use mainly Gravity products, but most likely Tamiya and Vallejo ones too. Well, let's go to the bench now, hoping this build will arouse interest from the Brit community. Cheers, O
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So I am using the same model, Tamiya 1/72 F-16CJ, to create the same aircraft, 91-0410, as @Enzo the Magnificent, a Dark Viper from Duluth's 148FW. I have got: the kit - still bagged Caracal decals Hasegawa weapon set ACMI pod Quinta 3D pit set And permission from the photographer, Ivan Voukadinov, to post this image which shows the attractive contrast between pylons and camo colours that @Enzo the Magnificent notes. The loadout for the Bulldogs in this era of scheme always seems to be these inert rounds and a lot of pods. In next 2 weeks I need to get: Master pitot Paint Mask Chris
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Finally managed to do an upload to my Flickr account, so here it is. My first "work in progress" post. Last September I have started work on this T-34/75 by Tamiya, in addition to the standard kit I have some PE parts from Eduard, metal barrel from Aber and workable tracks by Quick Tracks. I'll be honest my experience building tanks is non existent, so this was my way of getting into it. Last weekend I've finally managed to paint it and do some basic shading using an airbrush for the first time ever and here are the results before I painted details and covered everything in a couple of thin coats of semi gloss varnish. Tracks were primed with Vallejo black surface primer and then gave a couple of light coats of paint, then used acrylic track wash and rubbed some gun metal pigment using rubber brush. After that again a couple of light semi gloss coats to seal it and I must say I'm quite pleased with how they look. Wheels also received some pigment treatment Next step would be to put decals on, but then I'm a bit lost, so would like to know from more experienced here. What would be the best way forward? Is there an order in which I should do the weathering?
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As there’s still a bit of time until the Vietnam GB in mid-March, I thought I should enter a third build into this GB. I have liked Honda’s since the mid 80’s and currently have my fifth, a Civic Mk10 Sport. This is one that escaped me and you don’t see many about these days, so this might be the nearest I get to having one. Also it will make a nice accompaniment to @FG2Si Honda Beat. The S2000 was launched in 1999 to celebrate Honda’s 50th anniversary. It was powered by a 2-litre, four-cylinder VTEC engine which produced 237bhp. It was one of the first modern sports cars to be fitted with a button to start the engine. The S2000 was built on an ‘X-bone frame’, which was lighter yet stronger than contemporary roadsters and sports cars. The engine was positioned behind the front axle line, helping achieve perfect 50/50 front-to-rear weight distribution, and with double wishbone suspension and power sent to the back wheels, it would become the choice of purist drivers around the world. Scalemates tells me this was first released in 1999 (the same year as the real thing) and new parts were added in 2001. I think the new parts are the gold wheels and the left-hand drive option. 🤔 As per the norm with Tamiya, it looks really well moulded and I am sure it will fit together almost perfectly. That might be handy as I’ve never built a 1/24 car before. George
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Hi all, I'm entering the first GB of this year with something I've not built before: a rally car. The model is from Tamiya and builds to resemble (hopefully...) car driven by Colin McRae and navigated by Nicky Grist in Monte Carlo Rally, 1998. Not the most successful Impreza, but part of a line of iconic WRC cars. Here's the kit: Parts have been washed but are otherwise unharmed /Jari
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Hi, It's my old Big-E, that I'd built twenty years ago, I have removed the planes and the island, changed the aircraft, rebuild the island, and applied the wheathering... It's the Enterprise in 1986-88 (Carrier Air Wing 11). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's the last aircraft carrier I built...
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I often manage to sidetrack myself when doing builds. This started out in the D-Day 80th Anniversary GB last year as a fairly simple OOB build of the Tamiya 1/48 Universal Carrier for a diorama of Martigny in Normandy on 16/17 August 1944 with Tasker Watkins reporting back to Battalion HQ after the action where he won the VC but then I got distracted because I found a photo on the IWM website marked "Carriers of 1/5th Welch Regiment, 53rd Division, crossing the Meuse into Holland, 20 September 1944." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206353 ©IWM (B10138) Perched on the back was an upturned little cart; apparently a wireless handcart. Well, once I'd seen that image I wanted to try and replicate it. Which in 1/48 means scratchbuilding a handcart. After a lot of fun burning my fingers, learning more about soldering and then trying to find the right sort of mesh it was done and chucked on the back of the Universal Carrier which was loaded up with other kit, roughly after the picture above. At the South Wales MAFVA show the other weekend I decided to take a punt and entered it into the competition. There were two categories open only to club members and with the scratchbuilt handcart I decided to give it a try in 'Scratchbuilt / Modified' (the Peter Dener award, in memory of a club member who was known for his skills in this area). I've never had the confidence to put a model forward in a competition before and given the wonderful modellers we have in the club I was really surprised and pleased to win. A fair bit of work but a lot of fun, the WIP can be found below for anyone interested; my thanks to everyone who stopped by as it progressed. Hope you enjoy. Cheers, Richard.
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Here's the start of my 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Vb, in markings of an aircraft flown by one of the "Eagle"squadrons, American pilots who flew with the RAF before the US joined the war. I was minded to do this subject because my late father served as RAF groundcrew and was stationed at Martlesham Heath during the time that 71 Squadron, made up of American volunteers, was based there. I don't know whether he ever worked on these particular aircraft, but I think it's likely he would have been aware of them. I'll be using the Aviaelogy decal set, and the Tamiya kit. Hoping for a fairly quick build, although I'm tarting up the cockpit a bit with an Eduard set I picked up at Telford last year. I've spent a few evenings so far on the cockpit - here's a couple of pictures before everything gets hidden away inside the fuselage. All fairly straightforward so far - the only wrinkle was that the Eduard set refers to a mysterious "part 45" which is absent from the fret. It appears to be a wiring bundle on the left hand side of the instrument panel; I've made up something from fusewire and tape.
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With other builds stalled, time to get started on building a Ukrainian F-16. I'll be using a slightly pre-started Tamiya kit. I had previously started the kit last year(?) until I saw the possibility of the STGB and it was promptly shelved. I don't plan on going to crazy lengths to make the aircraft super accurate, staying mostly out of the box. The latest info shows the F-16s being armed with surprisingly current weapons, which the Tamiya kit provides, including the AIM-9X. https://www.twz.com/air/new-shots-of-ukrainian-f-16s-shine-light-on-combat-missions I think the only things I'll need to pick up are the PIDS+ and AN/ALQ-131. The kit already provides the AIM-9L/M/X, AIM-120C AMRAAM, and AGM-88 HARMs.
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Hi all, just about put the finishing touches on my latest project, Tamiya's excellent (if somewhat simplified in areas) Mark IV Male. I replaced the kit supplied simple chain for the unditching beam with some smaller brass chain, and the shackles/clevis and track fittings are 3D printed by myself. Stowage in the grouser box is a mix of Valuegear crates and plus model POW cans. Had a bit of a hiccup with the kit tracks becoming fragile from enamel thinners and falling apart, so replaced them at the last minute with the metal Friul offerings, they need some modification to fit the kit, and are a bit slack as they are impossible to connect if I remove any more links, but once sitting on a flat surface should be able to take up the slack I hope. Painted with Tamiya and a bit of AK RC and 3rd Gen acrylics, and weathered with Oils, AK's new Gouaches and enamel earth effects. Still sitting on it's painting stand while I sort out a temporary display base for the club competition at my IMPS brand meeting this week. It will eventually find its home on the diorama below, but not had time to finish that yet! Thanks, and look forward to any thoughts, or questions! Dan
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Hi all, My Centurion Avre is not yet finished, but I like having a few projects on the bench. Even though this one will be a huge project. 😉 A few weeks ago I attended Militracks 2024 in Overloon, Netherlands. Two FAMO half tracks participated. That gave me the idea to build a scaled version of it. A version with a heavy crane (I think it's a Bilstein crane): And the "regular" one: So I went to my local hobby shop and got this kit: As the kit is a bit older, I got some aftermarket stuff too: (I might get some resin tires for the trailer as well) The trailer could carry loads up to 22 tons. So my plan is to build something like this. Half track, trailer and a damaged Panzer IV: I yet need to get the tank, but first I need to focus on FAMO and trailer anyway. 😁 Daniel
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Being a serial starter (only occasional finisher) I decided to start something that shouldn't be too complex, the well known Tamiya He-162. I will try to build it as the interesting looking Black 27, interesting looking since it was left partly unpainted and rough which I think sums up the last desperate weeks of the Third Reich, and with a brown left wing and green right wing since they just fitted whatever was available at the time. As it looks otherwise complete it wouldn't surprise me if it had been flown into combat in that state if the war had gone on for a few more weeks. Could also be a fun challenge to replicate the bare metal and spackling look, and the included kit decals should provide the black "27" of Heinkel He 162 A-1 Werknummer 300027 found at Junkers-Jager Bernburg if I cut out the numbers from the kit supplied serial numbers. As you can see, Black 27 didn't have a serial number on the tail plane, nor a swastika. As far as I know the only difference between an A1 and the A2 the kit depicts, is the use of the short barrelled 30mm MK-108 guns in the A1 instead of the MG-151 in the A2. So I'd only need to leave out the protruding barrels from the kit and add the bigger 30mm ejector shell openings and paint the gun ports black, but if any He-162 experts on here knows more please let me know. If my plan goes pear shaped I will just build it as the "Nervenklau" plane from the kit, as I have several noisy motorcycles myself and I think the story behind that plane's name is quite amusing. It will be built out of the box (with the exception of a Quickboost REVI 16b gun sight), but with some attempts to improve detail. The kit detail is fine out of the box but it can be improved without too much work. The build starts in the cockpit (cue surprised gasps), and here Tamiya has left out the grab rails on the ejector seat so they were added using stretched sprue, and four roller wheels were punched out and glue to the seat. Added a few crinkles in the leather as well to add some life into it. I think, or rather hope, the seat supplied in the kit is OK for an A1 as there are at least two different variants of the 162 seat. Some riveting was added to the bulkhead, and the holes were opened up since there is some cabling and other stuff supposed to pass through them. The right hand cockpit side wall got a few punched out disks added to beef up the oxygen regulator. The kit's oxygen apparatus doesn't look much like the real thing, but I've seen so many different variations of the He-162 cockpit that I really don't know how it originally looked, or what has been changed or added by the allies after they took them as war prizes. Drilled out the hole for the flare gun port, and added some rivets to that as well. Still lots to do, so better just crack on!
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Tamiya catalogue 2025 details are here: https://tamiyablog.com/2024/12/full-official-details-of-tamiya-64456-catalog-2025-scale-models/ V.P.
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Afternoon all. Decided on an additional build leading to a diorama. This PIII has been hanging around for some years, so needed a simple time filler in between the complex painting sessions on the Bergepanther with full interior. This'll be the first use also of the new Easy metal Links brand.....the Tamiya as always a cracking kit, really crisp and comes with PE grills and metal barrel. The Voyager PE set is basic, just the general detail required. I might go for some PE fenders if I can find some cheap. Other than that.......off we go.... Cheers all.
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Hello all, Here is my entry for this GB - Tamiya's 1/48 Thunderbird boxing, marked as a Block 52+ of the Polish Air Force based at Poznan-Krzesiny air base. Unsure if it will be the 3rd or 6th Aviation Squadron as I'm not overly sure on serials for particular squadrons. Also need to locate the relevant patch! This is another build continuing on from last years theme of 'one that I've wanted to do for a while' . Kit: Aftermarket: Will be using a Quinta cockpit set, MCC ejection seat, Eduard masks, Master pitot tube and static wicks, Grand Models conversion set, Two Bobs decals, Fabscale seamless intake and Advanced Modelling Products mask. Contents of the Grand Models set that will be used: The CFTs are hollow and look very nice indeed. I'll be loading it with 2x AIM-9x, 2x AIM-120, 1x fuel tank and a Sniper pod (to be pinched from the spares). Should end up looking something like this all being well! I had seen a few images of recent (2022 onward) QRA jets but for all my endeavour I can't find them now! Dave
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I'm not a jet modeler but I seem to have gathered a few in my stash so 2025 will be a jet kind of year and I'll be doing some GBs. That being said I had to buy a kit for this one but that was because I would have to wait till March for a GB I have a kit for. My first Tamiya kit aswell so it should be fun (hopefully). I will have plenty of questions I'm sure but apart from decals it'll be OOB. Dave
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Hello all, EDIT 1/1/25 - this is now a 3 part build! Having never built a P-47 that I can remember, I wanted to build Tamiya's 'Razorback' in the markings of the 56th Fighter Group. I wanted a scheme other than the kit options, stumbling across Kitsworld decals with an option for 42-75207 'Boche Buster/Rozzie Geth' so that stettled it! Build 1 - Based at Halesworth, this P-47 was flown by Captain Fred Christensen, scoring 10.5 of his eventual 21.5 'kills' with this aircraft. Kit: Extras: I'm using a Eduard 'Look' instrument panel and etch belts, Eduard mask, Brassin 108 gallon drop tank and the aforementioned Kitsworld decals. On the latter and from my own experience, these aren't the most accurate of decals at times, thus my first question relates to the markings, which shows 'Boche Buster' with a yellow ring around the cowl and no theatre/ID stripes on the tail or stabilisers. Would this have been correct for early 1944? There is a profile that I've seen online (though I now can't find it!) which had 'Boche Buster' with a white cowl ring and the white stripes on the tail and stabilisers. Progress then with the cockpit. I realised quickly that I'd opened a can of worms with regard to the cockpit colour so I ended up using the advice from a thread over on ARC - a 50:50 mix of Tamiya XF-5 and XF-63, spray on and 'call it a day' . A light wash and some weathering added. The Eduard IP is very nice indeed. So, the promised questions! All relate to a parked P-47. 1. Cowl flaps - open or closed? 2. Flaps - up or down? 3. Fuselage vents - open or closed? Think that's all for now! I'm a complete P-47 noob so any and all help is appreciated! More soon. Dave
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I'll be building the Tamiya boxing, with Eduard "Space" cockpit details and wheels: Probably to be finished as per the box art but I may choose another option from the kit decals. Mike
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Hello gents Here's my first completion of 2025, a Christmas present from my Dad, the Tamiya P-38F Lightning, representing White 33 of the 39th Fighter Squadron based at Port Moresby, New Guinea in late 1942: The kit has a bit of a reputation of being a lovely build and I'm pleased to say that reputation is well-deserved, there are some really nice engineering choices made so you get a nice easy build of a well-detailed kit. The majority of the parts fit just like Lego, things just click into place and if you are the sort of modeller who likes to get elbow-deep in putty and solve problems... well this may not be the kit for you There are various part options detailing the difference between the F and G variants and markings for a G are also included in the kit. I didn't quite go OOB on it; I bought the Eduard T-Face mask set for the canopy (becaused I like them) and the Eduard resin wheel set (because I don't like trying to hide the central seam on diamond-tread tyres, and the detail on the Eduard wheels is really nice). I painted the aicraft in Colourcoats US Olive Drab 41 over US Neutral Gray 43, with US Interior Green for the internals, US True Blue for the propeller spinners and AK Extreme Metal Matt Aluminium for the wheelbays, with the detail painting in various Vallejo and Citadel acrylics. I used the kit transfers, I feel that in a way they are the weak spot of the kit, being a bit thick (I know, pot, kettle, black) and some of them were frankly rather strange (yes all right) - like the ones used to represent the cooling holes in the .50 cal barrels... however when all was varnished with AK Ultra Matte they look fine. And finally, I got another outing for the Coastal Kits 'Japanese airfield' display background for the photos Thanks for your attention Cheers, Stew