Megablitz and more

  Yes I know these are all Army 'planes but who could resist the title?  Here are the completed bombers.  From the front - Ki-30 and two...

Having need of at least one Japanese Army light bomber I naturally ended up with three!  As well as the Ki-30 mentioned earlier I picked up...

More progress with the Ki-30 now. Having left the glue to dry on the wings and tail a base coat of pale sand was applied. There are plenty o...

A relatively unknown aircraft as it was very much yesterday’s news by 1941, the Ki-30 was in widespread use by the Japanese Army in the late...

 I posted part 1, covering the build back in May 2019 but forgot to post photos of the finished models.  The enormous decal sheet offered l...

This was a WW2 played last month in Sheffield.  Five of us gathered to push toys around.  I  had very loosely based the scenario on bits of...

These tiny guns were widely used by Japanese forces for fire support.  Being too mean to buy an expensive and fragile plastic kit and too im...

Bringing to an end - at least for now - the epic tale of plastic, dust, glue and heroism that is Bassett’s  Broken Bits Box is this Airfix ...

These were painted some months ago but for some reason I never got round to posting the photos. They are simple plastic models - no assemb...

Here is the completed kit - serving as a military transport.  As well as the usual 'in flight' photos, I couldn't resist on...

It's built and - rather predictably - painted silver. Markings and varnish still to come.

I actually completed this models and took the photos back in May so here at last it is! Bought at the same time as my G3M1 bomber , I pi...

Clearly intimidated by my 1/35 scale Japanese tanks , John managed, while visiting Tankfest last weekend, to find this larger example. Well ...