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Where the Streets Have No Name
As military modelers we often throw around the phrase; “living in the golden age of modeling”. And while it is certainly true that the variety and quality of the kits that are now available are...
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Mono-Wing & a Prayer
Professor Hugo Junkers was one of the great revolutionaries in the history of aviation development. Junkers became a professor of mechanical engineering at Aachen University in 1897, where he remained...
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Flying Dutchman : Fokker DVII
When World War I ended in 1918, the Armistice required, among other things, that Germany turns over 1,700 warplanes, including “all D.VII’s.” Thus did the Allies compliment the boyish Dutchman whose...
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Pulling Power – Holt 75 Tractor
I recently took a bit of a break from my usual modeling subjects, those being armor, armored cars and other types of earthly vehicles and instead dabbled in the world of those winged things,...
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Rommel’s Ride
The German war reporter Fritz Lucke descried the AEC Dorchester as; “An armored box as big as a bus, on a giant balloon tires as big and fat as the undercarriage wheels of a Junkers transport plane....
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Mobile Worker MW-01 Late Type [MASH]
The Mobile Worker MW-01 Model 01 Final Type is a mobile weapon that appears in the Mobile Suite Gundam: The Origin OVA . It belonged to the Autonomous Republic of Zeon and would ultimately lead to the...
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Burn Baby Burn
I have been a fan of the Mad Max movie series since inception beginning with the 1979 release of Mad Max, up through and including the recent Fury Road release. And as such, this is the backdrop for...
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For the Motherland
When it comes to armored warfare and the history of WWII, the T34 (and it’s variants) deserve an extra thick chapter any book that chronicles defeat of Nazi Germany – and afterward. In 1942, Adolf...
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Kharkov StuG
If “sexy” is an appropriate word to use to describe a lethal military vehicle, then the StuG certainly deserves a walk on the modeler catwalk. It’s attractive, low profile, and aggressive wide stance...
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Schwere Transport
In support of their Blitzkrieg tactics, Germany took full advantage of their newly built boulevards and autobahn road networks to quickly and easily move mechanized material from the factory floor to...
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