#TAMIYA

[itsmarjudgelove]

[archiveofaffinities]

The Range of 1:700 Scale Ships Manufactured by Tamiya

[thestonecuttersguild]

Finished stuff Friday!

At Airventure this year, they had all of these tables full of vintage model kits! Oh my, my jaw hit the floor. I picked up this Tamiya Mustang, an Accurate P-51, a Monogram F-8, and two Bearcat kits.

I'd bought this Tamiya RAF Mustang before, but I built it as a Tuskegee mount instead, since I had decals for it. Since this was an original boxing (1996) the decals were in pretty bad shape, and a few of them crumbled as I was applying. Luckily, I have a spare decal sheet for this kit, though the one I have must be a later boxing, because it isn't exactly the same. That one has all of the meatballs seperate from the roundels.

Anyhow, loved the vintage kits, the Tamiya P-51 is a perfect kit, hard to screw this one up. Painted mostly with Tamiya rattle spray, except for the yellow leading edges, the white nose, and the fuselage bamd which were brushed.

[professor-doc-emeritus]

coke ain't doing it for me no more had to get something stronger

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1941 12 14 Malaya, Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo - box art Tamiya

Royal Australian Air Force No. 453 Sqn. TD-V/AN185

[asachuu-et-cetera]

Very lazy doodle, but you see my vision.

The fact that I immediately thought of this just proves I might be beyond saving, but oh well. Potentially a decent occasion for the Litchi Hikari Club fandom, less so for my likely horrified mutuals, but I do what I must.

Based on this Twitter post I came across randomly.

[mosukemodel]

久しぶりの更新です。写真を見てると塗装の剥がれはあまりなさそうなので、砂と泥汚れを主にウェザリングしてみました。

[fun-with-god-p]

headcanon that Tamiya tried to smoke in secret from the club (he is a rebel (he was caught))

[nge6]

[jameskyle3]

[renposter]

Tamiya Nissan Skyline GT-R V.Spec 1:24 Scale Model Kit

[triangleofdog]

Zero cares given in building this... barely any in slapping paint on it...

The decals, normally applied by soaking in water then sliding off the backing paper, I clipped out and stuck on with clear sticky tape.

And it was a hoot to slap this thing together like a barely supervised 7 year old!

Time check, start to finish....

[thestonecuttersguild]

2024 Wrap up.

Weird year for me modelling,that's for sure.

I started with the Airfix B-25 in 1/72, and really, I just don't build 72's. Had planned on building as Berlin Express, but it turned out that decal set that I thought I saw was in the wrong scale, so I sort of hobbled together this desert pink version from the spare decals.

Accurate Miniatures SBD was next, don't build this kit. IT's way too finicky. I had broken off the gunners ring after gluing the fuselage, so I ended up shelving the kit and moving on.

Next I worked the Hasegawa Typhoon, which is a pretty good kit. I did not have the paints for it, nor the money to spring for paint, so this too got shelved.

The Monogram T-6 came next, as a pallet cleanser for me, since I wasn't actually finishing any kits. As a bonus, this old vintage boxing of the kit happened to have a rear gunner. So I used the guns from the T-6 to finish the SBD.

As a glutton for punishment, I next did the Italeri Huey, been in my stash for years. Not that it's a bad kit, it was quite good actually. It just meant I had to really pay attention to interior details, as well as exterior. Huey is more of an armor kit than aviation.

At Oshkosh I picked up a few kits. This Tamiya P-51B RAF was one. Built it when I got home, and as a bonus there, the paints for the Mustang are the same as for the Tiffy, so I managed to finish that one too.

Finally I built the vintage Monogram Crusader that I pick up in Oshkosh, and that kit was a treat to build honestly.

Looking ahead to 2025, it'll be a North American kind of year. Thanks for checking it out!

[k16models]

[malusc]

Litchi no Hikari Club

i loved to make this, but los the motivation to finish it, one day the set will be complete.

[dasdritteauge]