9 December 2012 : Today I am proud to present Model Maniac Page 65 - Part D. In this Part "Art Instructor" presents 6 new armors and they are really new. All are newly-released models. Starting from RSOV w/ MG (Ranger Special Operation Vehicle w/ Machine Gun) from Hobby Boss and JGSDF Type 87 AW from Trumpeter, followed by
U.S. Water Buffalo LVT-4 Landing Vehicle Tracked - Late Type from AFV Club and Sd.Kfz.254 Tracked Armoured Scout Car from Hobby Boss, then topping if off with
British Heavy Assault Tank A39 Tortoise from Meng and German 8.8cm Flak18 Selbstfahrlafette from Trumpeter. As always, I hope you'll enjoy viewing!
I'd like to thank for all kind feedbacks, compliments and suggestions that we received concerning Page 64 - Part C. They are very encouraging, and they inspire us to keep on producing quality models and dioramas and showing finest quality pictures. Comments and suggestions are welcome in my Model Maniac Forum
501 - 517 : Hobby Boss's RSOV w/ MG (Ranger Special Operation Vehicle w/ Machine Gun)
518 - 536 : Trumpeter's JGSDF Type 87 AW
537 - 553 : AFV Club's U.S. Water Buffalo LVT-4 Landing Vehicle Tracked - Late Type
554 - 567 : Hobby Boss's Sd.Kfz.254 Tracked Armoured Scout Car
568 - 583 : Meng's British Heavy Assault Tank A39 Tortoise
584 - 604 : Trumpeter's German 8.8cm Flak18 Selbstfahrlafette
and in my Facebook Group named Model Maniac
- Figure : 200mm Oberjager Hermann Goering Division (1:9) (finished)
- Orange Hobby's Swedish Navy Visby Class Corvette "Harnosand" 1:350
- Dragon's German Battleship Scharnhorst 1943 1:350 + Dragon's Scharnhorst Upgrade Set
- Roden's Fairchild AU-23A 1:48 RTAF
- Figures: Late Imperial Legion 1:72 using Italeri's figure set
Some kits in stock that I just can't wait for them to be built!:
- Trumpeter's F-100D 1:32
- Diorama "Flak18 At War" using Bronco's German 8.8cm Flak18 w/ Crew (finished)
- Diorama "German AA Team" using Tamiya's 3.7cm Flak37 w/ Crew (finished)
- Diorama "Taking some pics" using Master Box's Russian Infantry, Korsun 1944 (finished)
- Armor : Meng Model's Pick Up w/ ZPU-1 + Voyager's PE upgrade set (finished)
- Armor : Tamiya's Sd.Kfz.222 German Armored Car, North African Campaign (finished)
- Armor : Tamiya's Kubelwagen Type 82 Ramcke Parachute Brigade w/ 5 figures (finished)
- Figures : Schnellboot Crew using ICM figure set
- Vignette "Getting Some Kick" (Soviet Soldier & his captive)
- Figure : U.S. Infantry Private '68 (resin)
- Figure : U.S. Infantry Sergeant '68 (resin)
- Vignette "USMC Officer & RTO, Vietnam" (2 resin figures w/ base)
- Figures : Mini Art's Japanese Tank Crew
- Armor " Tamiya's British Commando Vehicle w/ 2 figures (newly-released)
- Diorama "Head for the Huey" using Master Box's figure set
- Diorama "Libyan Rebels' Rocket Pick-Up" using Meng's Pick Up w/ Equipment + E.T. Model's Rocket Upgrade Set + Master Box's Insurgents Iraq
All by "pjareanwanit" or "pj"
- Hobby Boss's German Navy Submarine Type VII B 1:350
- Bronco's German Long-Range Submarine U-IX C 1:350
- Tamiya's Patrol Boat River "PBR" Pibber 1:35
- Revell's German Wiesel Ozelot 1:35
- Airfix's F-86F 1:72
- Zvezda's Su-33 1:72
- Orange Hobby's Russian Corvette "Steregushchy" 1:350
- MonoChrome's IJN Destroyer "Akizuki" 1942 1:350
- Dragon's German Z-39 Destroyer 1:350
All by "Toom" (Art Instructor's big brother)
+ MK1's Scharnhorst Detail-Up Set + MK1's Scharnhorst Wooden Deck
By "Niphon"
- Trumpeter's Tu-160 1:72
- Tamiya's T-34/76 + Aires' VT-34 Recovery Vehicle Conversion Set 1:35
- Academy's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior 1:35
- Trumpeter's Me-262 A-1a Heavy Armament 1:32
- Tamiya's Japanese WWII Battleship "Musashi" 1:350 w/ local made PE parts (3 sheets)
- Revell's SMS Emden 1:350
- ICM's Markgraft Battleship 1:350
- Trumpeter's Russian Cruiser Admiral Lazarev (Ex Frunze) 1:350 w/ PE upgrade sets from Lion Roar
All by "Tazmanian"
- Figures: French Mounted Knights 1:72 using Mini Art's figure set
- Aoshima's Roman Warship
- Waterloo's Greek Cavalry 1:72
- Diorama "Guadacanal 1942" using Dragon's U.S. Marines Guadacanal 1942 figure set
- Diorama "Soviet Medical Personnel" using Zvezda's figure set
All by "Joh"
- Academy's German WWII Battleship Admiral Graf Spee 1:350 Premium Edition (another one)
- Trumpeter's Russian Cruiser Pyotr Velikiy 1:350 w/ PE Guardrails & Radar from LionRoar
- AFV Club's German type VIIB 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Voyager
- AFV Club's German type VIIC 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Voyager
- AFV Club's German type VIIC/41 1:350
- AFV Club's German type VIID 1:350
- AFV Club's Japanese Navy I-19 Submarine 1:350 w/ I-19 Detail Up from AFV Club
- AFV Club's Japanese Navy I-58 Submarine Early Version 1:350
- Trumpeter's Cv-14 Ticonderoga 1:350 w/ PE BigEdition from Eduard
- Tamiya's Mogami - Japanese Aircraft Carrying Cruiser 1:350 w/ Detail Up, w/ MAM's brass barrels
- Tamiya's Mikuma - Japanese Light Cruiser 1:350
- Trumpeter's HMS Repulse 1941 1:350 w/ Upgrade Set from Lion Roar and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's HMS Hood 1:350 w/ Trumpeter's Upgrade set, Eduard PE set and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's Moskva, Varyag and Admiral Panteleyev 1:350 w/ LionRoar's PE Guard Rails & Radars
- Tamiya's Musashi 1:350 w/ Wood Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's USS Lassen DDG-82 1:350
- Hasegawa's IJN Yahaki 1:350 w/ MAM's brass barrels
- Monochrome's IJN Destroyer Akizuki 1:350
- Trumpeter's USS Massachusetts BB-59 1:350
- Tamiya's Bismarck 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Eduard and Wooden Deck DX from MK1
- Dragon's German Battleship Scharnhorst 1:350 Premium Edition w/ PE Upgrade Set from Dragon, Detail-Up Parts and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Alanger's K-407 Russian Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (NATO Delta IV Class) 1:350
- Alanger's Typhoon Class Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (another one) 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Battleship Kongo 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Heavy Cruiser Atago 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1941 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1942 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1943 1:350
- Tamiya'a Japanese Navy Submarine I-400 w/ Voyager's PE Upgrade Set 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Submarine I-41 w/ Landing Crafts 1:350
- Pit Road's IJN Escort UKURU Type-A 1:350
- Pit Road's SSN-571 Nautilus 1:350
- Hobby Boss' Italian Heavy Cruiser Pola (1941)
- Hobby Boss' U.S.S. Virginia SSN-774 1:350
- Hobby Boss' German Navy Type VII-B U-Boat 1:350
- Monochrome's German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen 1:350 w/ Wooden Deck from MK1
- Airfix's Trafalgar Class Submarine 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Yorktown (CG-48) + Soviet Alfa 1:350
- Dragon's German Z-39 Destroyer 1:350 Smart Kit with Basic Parts Upgrade Set from Orange Hobby
- Mirage's U-511 IXC (turn I + WGr42) German Submarine 1:350
- Mirage's U-176 IXC (turn II) German Submarine 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Type VII-A U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's German Navy Type VII-B U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type VII-C U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type IX-A U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Type IX-B U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type IX-C U-Boat 1:350
- Aoshima's Heavy Cruiser "Chokai 1942" Takao Class 1:350
- Zvezda's Russian Battleship "Borodino" 1:350
- Trumpeter's German Zerstorer Z-25, 1944 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Gearing DD-710 (1945) 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. The Sullivans DDG-68 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Laffey DD-459 1942 1:350
- Bronco's German Long Range Submarine U-IXC 1:350
- Trumpeter's PLA Navy 051C DDG-115 Shenyang 1:350
- Trumpeter's PLAN Type 033 Submarine & SH-5 Observation Seaplane 1:350
- Hobby Boss's PLAN Type 035 Ming Class Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Chinese 039G "Sung" Class Attack Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Kang Ding Class Frigate 1:350
- Bronco's Russian Akula II Class Submarine 1:350
- Academy's U.S.S. Reuben James FFG57 (Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigate) 1:350
- AFV Club's USN Submarine Guppy IB Class (Italian Navy SS Leonardo Da Vinci) 1:350
- Hasegawa's IJN Destroyer Type Koh "Isokaze" Super Detail 1:350
- Trumpeter's USS England DE-635
- Micro-Mir's WWII Soviet Submarine K-21 1:350
- Italeri's U-Boot Biber 1:35
- FineMolds' IJN Midget Submarine A-Target Type A "Sydney Bay" 1:72
- Riich's USS Los Angeles Class Flight III (688 Improved) Attack Submarine 1:350
- ICM's "Kronprinz" WWI German Battleship 1:350
- Zvezda's K-3 November Class Nuclear Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Russian Project 955 "Borei" Yuri SSBN Submarine 1:350
- Trumpeter's USSR Aircraft Carrier MINSK 1:550
- Hobby Boss's USS Los Angeles Class SSN-688/VLS/688I 1:350
- Bronco's USS "Freedom" (LCS-1) 1:350
- Orange Hobby's Sweden Navy Visby Class Corvette "Harnosand" 1:350
- Orange Hobby's Russian Corvette Steregushchiy 1:350
- Monochrome's IJN Destroyer "AKIZUKI" 1942 1:350
- Italeri's Vosper 72' 6" MTB 77 1:35
- Trumpeter's PLAN DDG 139 - NINGBO 1:350
- Hobby Boss's French Surcouf Submarine Cruiser 1:350
- Hobby Boss's Soviet Victor III Class (Project671R) 1:350
- Orange Hobby's HswMS "Visby" Class Corvette 1:350
- Planet Model's U-Boot Typ II D 1:200
- Mirage's I-506 U-IX D1 Turn IV 1:400
- Trumpeter's A-10A/N 1:32
- Italeri's F-86F 1:32
- Trumpeter's Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" 1:32
- Academy's MiG-29AS Slovak Air Force 1:48
- Hobby Boss' F-105 G "thunderchief" 1:48
- Hobby Boss' MiG-17 PFU Fresco E 1:48
- Amodel's Mil Mi-10K Soviet "Flying Crane" Helicopter 1:72
- Zvezda's Mil Mi-24V/VP Hind E 1:72
- Zvezda's Mil Mi-35M Russian Attack Helicopter 1:72
- Zvezda's Sukhoi Su-30KN Russian Multirole Fighter 1:72
- Zvezda's Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker-D 1:72
- Italeri's Sukhoi Su-34 1:72
- Zvezda's Sukhoi Su-50 (T-50) 1:72
- Hasegawa's MiG-29 Fulcrum "Russian MiGs" 1:72
- Hasegawa's MiG-21 & MiG-17 Combo 1:72
- Italeri's F/A-18 Hornet 1:72
- Italeri's F-104G Starfighter 1:72
- Italeri's F-15C 1:72
- Italeris' B-25G 1:72
- Meng's F-102A (Case X) 1:72
The list goes on...
