Tag: vehicles

• Isuzu TX-40 – Part One – Fuel For The Empire

  

  You never think of the more humble vehicles in war – the dump trucks, re-fuelling trucks, and dustcarts. Yet they were manned by service personnel just as dedicated as the tankers and aircrew they served. I always leap on 1:76 service vehicles when I find them in the hobby shop. This Isuzu showed up at…

  Dick Stein

  May 9, 2022

  1:72 scale, Dioramas, Japanese aircraft, Military models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  IJA airfield, Japanese, vehicles

• US Army Ambulance – Part Two – The Bug Bear

  

  Everyone has a sort of a bugbear in their modelling. One person will have no luck with paints. Another will continually mess up clear parts. In my case it is vehicles – I never complete one without some basic flaw. In many cases it is the basic structure that foxes me. 1:72 and 1:76 vehicle…

  Dick Stein

  July 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, Decals, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Painting, Scale Models, Utility Models

  ambulance, bomb tractor, vehicles

• The Scale Of My Problem

  

  I have a problem*. The scale of my model airplanes is 1:72 – and that is the general scale to which I wish to build my model airfields. I have been lucky so far – the British card kits from Superquick and Metcalf are mostly in 1:72 or 1:76 ( an acceptable compromise ) and…

  Dick Stein

  August 26, 2019

  1:72 scale, die cast, Dioramas, Model cars, Modelling Supplies, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  scale, structures, vehicles