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...small tank atm, and Revell suggests color 48 and 77 (sea green and dust grey). Anyone have any idea which Tamiya/ModelMaster colors are close matches?...
...t out my bad ENGLISH expression. This 1/16 King Tiger won 1st place in the category of big scale tank at Tamiya/Con 2003....
Kit Review: Tamiya 1/35 Scale Kits: No. 35623; M1025 Humvee Armament Carrier; 163 parts (139 in tan styrene, 16 in clear styrene, 8 in black vinyl); price around $32.00 No. 35266; Modern U.S. Equi
...t and part of the cockpit interior. Is this right? Which paint numbers in either model master acrylic or tamiya acrylics would be closest? I have yet to see a picture of this color in a plane. PLe...
Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic models? I only have Tamiya, Revell, and Italeri (although for my personal opinion Italeri could definitely need a MAJOR website
...ls, mufflers, added details above the engine and a much more detailed chassis (is that the word?) Or did Tamiya just update their Panther in general....
...edals; you'd be just as correct but it'd sure look unnatural! The next chapter features the 1/32 scale Tamiya F-4J in the RAF's 74 Squadron markings from Yellow Hammer, Eduard PE, Cutting Edge Side...
...rn jet resin accessories (KMC, Paragon, True Details, etc. 1/48 and 1/32 modern aircraft kits, Hasegawa, Tamiya, R/M, etc. 1/48 and 1/32 modern aircraft decal sheets Issues #1, 4, 18, and 19 of Wor...
Hummer Weapons Carrier Detail Set (for Tamiya/Academy) Verlinden Productions No.1976 1/35 The new Humvee detail set from Verlinden arrived to me today from Squadron. It is packed in a typical Ver
Anyone point me to some good pix of one of these beasties?
... figure that out till later, but it was great to sit on those big bikes when you are 10. Anyway, I think Tamiya makes the first edition of the CB750-4 in 1/6 scale, but I just loved that SL-70. Honda...
...as a bargain at $19.95. I spent almost that again mixing paints and shaping putty. Next time I will buy a Tamiya model, and use Testors pre-mixed RLM colours. My next kit is an Academy 1:72 Hawker Hu...
...ing yet. This is my concern: I'm going to use the spraypaint recommended by the instruction manual of my Tamiya car model. The color is Vintage Red or Italian Red. I was wondering if a spraypaint, i...
...g trouble getting paint to not peel up when using masking tape or liquid mask. I have been painting using Tamiya Acrylics thinned with Windex. Applied with a Paasche single action airbrush. I washed ...
What Tamiya colors correspond to Panzer grey, Dark yellow, olive green, red brown and interior white?
...e stock of useful recommendations and fix the problems in their kits. Twenty-five years of doing this for Tamiya has shown remarkably deaf ears, which does seem to at least show me where I really stan...
... Lots of color pictures of interior sections, pages of color schemes, and heavy emphasis on detailing the Tamiya Beaufighter kits $35 Aeroguide #9 Hawker Hunter - complete b/w and color walk around ...
NEW RELEASED at www.luckymodel.com 1/48 Tamiya P-47D Bubbletop at US$19.99 1/48 Tamiya P-51D Mustang 8th Ace at US$16.99 1/48 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt "Razorback" at US$19.99 1/20 Tamiya M1025 Humvee
I saw a couple of Tamiya's new "pre-painted" car model kits. One, for example, was a Porshe race car that was painted and decaled. Anyone buy one of these kits? Are they worth the $58 price tag in reg
I recently bought this kit off Ebay & it has come with only Japanese instructions. Does anyone know if it is possible to download English instructions from anywhere?
...unable to obtain Future where I am, so I'm going to have to try something else for my canopies. If I use Tamiya clear (gloss) acrylic, can I get the same result (obviously at a higher cost)? If so, ...
Although I've learned to work around the limitations of my old Tamiya Spray-Work compressor/airbrush combo, I've decided that it's time to upgrade to a more potent system ... Having more or less deci
I have read the suggestions and even looked over what I have here. Tamiya's thinner is ridiculously overprices ($AU20 for 250ml), I have looked at Windex and even rubbing alcohol, but they have pigme
While painting a camo pattern with red brown Tamiya Acrylics when i would just barely pull back to let a tiny amount of paint flow i would get blobs spitting onto my model. I thinned the paint 50/50 w
...I ZERO $12 MONO P-61 BLACK WIDOW $15 MONO "HIGH TECH" KINGFISHER $15 Academy/Minicraft F5-E Lighting $18 TAMIYA P-51B $15 each PRO MODELER P-40E WARHAWK $20 PRO MODELER P-39Q AIRACOBRA $20 HSG MITS...
...) In full i am experimentally doing is my first armor lovingly kit. I use a water bottle cap to mix my Tamiya dessert sand color and some white. Lately I did 80% sand to 20% white for the first ...
Which one of Tamiya's 1/24 scale Rally cars would folks here recommend as being particularly good?
.... I am trying to airbrush the stuff and am getting mostly bad to bad results. I have tried plain water, Tamiya thinner, and PollyS thinner. The best I have gotten so far is with a really high water...
I'm not a tread head but I picked up Tamiya's M2 Bradley kit (No. 132), the one with the full interior and markings for vehicles in the states and Germany. I want to build this in Desert Storm configu
...urprisingly set up.. tank regulator/guages (line pressure and remaining rank pressure?) adaptor for Tamiya brush anything else? I`ll be the keeper of the info and post it to the next poor ap...
I have heard of people using windshield washer fluid as a thinner. Has anyone used this method with Tamiya acrylics?
I have just opened a packet of this stuff - its in a blue box covered in Japanese - and no english instructions. The diagram seems to indicate that equal amounts of each Part A and Part B must be mix
And I'm talking about the FULL color line. I'm working on a Tamiya racing cycle kit- and none of my usual suspects (Squadron and HobbyTowns) carry Telefonica Blue TS-51.
....1, no.3 and a no.5 tip sets. I have tried all 3 and have had the best luck with the largest. I am using Tamiya Acyrlics and I have tried them both thicker and thinner. When they are thick you must i...
...of the store was a bunch of boxes of clearance items. I picked up a ProModeler Dog Sabre for $8.16 and a Tamiya 1/48th scale F84 T-bird for $12.97. I then went back to the model section and couldn't...

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