The Model Box

The 1:87 Russian SU-100 is primed with Acrylicos Vallejo's Russian Green Surface Primer. posted from Bloggeroid

The M1 Abrams in a variety of scales. The biggest ( seen in one picture) is in 1:35 while the smallest is in 1:144. It'd be nice to take a picture of them with my 1:18 M1 too.

4D Puzzle 1:84 PzKpfw lV

4D Puzzle 1:111 M1 Abrams

The SU-100 was a Soviet casemate-style tank destroyer armed with a powerful 100 mm anti-tank gun. It was used extensively during the last year of World War II and saw service for many years afterwards with the armies of Soviet allies around the world. The SU-85 was developed from the same chassis as the T-34 tank, but replaced its turret with a casement installation allowing larger guns to be fitted. Designed more as a 4D puzzle toy than an accurate model, the kit has a weird construction design, with parts of the hull and chassis broken down into interlocking shapes that snap on with built in pegs. The parts are unnumbered and most are not on sprues so identifying which part attaches to where was quite a challenge. It would help if you were familiar with the tank since visual identification oif the parts would be a must. The tricky part is the middle subsection where there were no identifying details and I had to magnify and study the instgructions again ...

This December's tank hunt.

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) aka Churchill was a British heavy infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war. The Churchill was used by British and Commonwealth forces in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe. In addition, a few hundred were supplied to the USSR and used on the Eastern Front. There is some ambiguity regarding whom the tank is named after. It may have been named after Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Minister of Defence at the time, and had been involved with the development of the tank as a weapon during the First World War. Alternatively, and fitting in with other British tank names, it may have been named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, an ancestor of Winston Churchill and the leader of th...

Breaking out the Crusaders. British crusader tanks that is. Two from Armourfast (Mk ll) and one from Hasegawa (Mk lll)

Armourfast 1:72 M4A2 Sherman quick build kit. Each box has 2 tanks and is engineered to be very fast and simple to assemble, mainly for wargamers. The third tank shown with the two M4A2s is the Matchbox 1:76 Firefly.

Ready for accessories and painting. And notice that the tracks are still missing. More on that soon.