Tag: IBG

• Polish Tankette – Part Six – Brushing Aside My Fears

  

  The Polish TKS tankette is ready to join the roster in the Armour Museum. Now all we need is an armour museum Well, it’s coming. The Ess Bend Engineering workshop is proceeding well, and as soon as that is done more tanks and vehicles will be pouring out of it, and they have to pour…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2023

  1:35 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Military models, Model building club, Painting, Polish models, Scale Models

  Ess Bend Engineering, IBG, Polish tank

• Polish Tankette – Part Three – Tankietka

  

  I am starting to be impressed with the IBG company’s approach to scale modelling. The first club day saw a little of the inside compartment started; the engine block and radiator shell. The parts separated cleanly from the sprue trees and dry fitted perfectly. the plastic is very slightly soft – eminently cuttable. Think a…

  Dick Stein

  February 15, 2023

  1:35 scale, design, Military models, Modelling Supplies, Polish models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  IBG, moulding, precision, sprue trees

• Polish Tankette – Part One – A Gem Off The Shelf

  

  This kit is the second venture I’m making in 1/35 scale – and this is a deliberate choice, rather than a chance purchase. The little Polish armoured car kit that I bought for a dollar proved to be so much fun to build that I determined to add more to the Stein’s Military World museum.…

  Dick Stein

  February 13, 2023

  1:35 scale, Acrylic, adhesives, finances, frugality, Hobby Shops, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Painting, Polish models, Uncategorized

  AFV, IBG, Polish kit, starter kit