desert

So what would you build to counter the threat of the LRDG and SAS coming and going as they please from the deep desert? ... another old one from the Italian shelf (Aug 2023), any new Italian vehicles will have to be built. Suffice it to say that I just think it is another odd, but way-cool...

Early on, not long after getting back into modelcraft, my first effort being an SAS jeep, I started reading up on Sterling and his band of 'misfits', as well as the much more respectable lads of the LRDG. I read about a Ford he had acquired, modified and dressed up a la DAK, with the intent of...

... just when you thought things couldn't get any smaller! Meet the 'tankette': sounds like the name a piece of women's apparel! But the Italians were serious about these, and produced many during the interwar period. Seemed like a good idea at the time I suppose... and face it, who has the...

Another in my series of Italian vehicles from June 2023, the Tamiya 508CM Coloniale Staff Car! It was a fun little build, and provided yet another opportunity to over-rotate on details a more sane me might have ignored! "That's right, 2 Big Macs and a diet Coke" figures from: 'The Bodi'...

Hey! My first tank, completed this fall. The Tamiya Carro Armato M13/40 As mentioned elsewhere, I've mostly been working on the WW2 softskin vehicles seen in North Africa. I have built some tracked vehicles, but this was my first full on TANK. (full disclaimer: as part of my Italian craze, I...

Hey! Just what you want from Santa: a theodolite! Mentioned this scratch-built gizmo to OldManModeller... I hope this is the right place to show it, I know it is not a diorama, but it could very well live in one, it tells a story. I don't build dioramas, but like to accessorize, too much fun...