31 December 2012 : Today I proudly present Model Maniac Page 66 - Part B which is the 16th and the last Part for the Year 2012.
In this Part, "Joh" presents 3 new dioramas, while "PJ" present 2 new dioramas and "Niphon" presents a WWII German Battleship 1:350 full option.
Starting from Diorama "US Marines Guadacanal 1942", Diorama "Casualties, Ukraine 1944" and Diorama "US Army Italy 1944" by "Joh", followed by
Diorama "The Desert Fox" and Diorama "Libyan Rebels' Rocket Launcher" by "PJ", then topping it off with German Battleship Scharnhorst 1943 1:350
Full Option by "Niphon" which took him nearly 16 months in the making. As always, I hope you'll enjoy viewing.
I'd like to thank for all kind feedbacks and compliments that we received concerning Page 66 - Part A. They are very encouraging and they inspire us to keep producing quality models & dioramas and showing finest quality pictures. Comments and suggestions are welcome in my Model Maniac Forum
BTW, my modeling activities in 2012 - name of model kits that I bought and shown on my site - is available here: Annual Report 2012
201 - 212 : Diorama "Guadacanal 1942" using Dragon's U.S. Marines Guadacanal 1942 figure set - by "Joh":
213 - 224 : Diorama "Casualties, Ukraine 1944" using Zvezda's Soviet Medical Personnel - by "Joh":
225 - 238 : Diorama "US Army Italy 1944" using Tamiya's Figure Set - by "Joh":
239 - 255 : Diorama "The Desert Fox" using Dragon's Panzer III Ausf.H and Master Box's Rommel and German Tank Crew, DAK WWII - by "PJ":
256 - 274 : Diorama "Libyan Rebels' Rocket Pick-Up" using Meng's Pick Up w/ Equipment + E.T. Model's Rocket Upgrade Set - by "PJ"
275 - 342 : Dragon's German Battleship Scharnhorst 1943 1:350 + MK1's Scharnhorst Detail-Up Set + MK1's Scharnhorst Wooden Deck - by
"Nipon":
2013 will mark the 15th year that this site will have been in service, and I have made some improvement in image quality and size. During the past two years I had been using a cheap digital camera (GE A1250 12.2MP) which I bought for under $100, so little when compared to the amount I paid on models and modeling services each month that it's quite a pity. So I've just recently bought a new camera as a New Year present for myself. It's a Sony RX100, one of the best inventions of the Year 2012 by TIME.COM. With 20.2MP resolution, big CMOS sensor and Carl Zeiss lenses, image quality has significantly improved as you'll see by yourself. I've also increased the image size in pixels from 1,024 x 768 to 1,280 x 852. I hope you'll welcome these changes. Happy New Year 2013!
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- Figures : Mini Art's Japanese Tank Crew (finished)
- Orange Hobby's Swedish Navy Visby Class Corvette "Harnosand" 1:350
- Amodel's Mil Mi-10K 1:72
- Figures: Late Imperial Legion 1:72 using Italeri's figure set
- Roden's Fairchild AU-23A 1:48 RTAF
Some kits in stock that I just can't wait for them to be built!:
- Trumpeter's F-100D 1:32
- 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)
- Diorama "Head for the Huey" using Master Box's figure set
- Armor : Hobby Boss's PLA PTL02 Wheeled Tank Destroyer (Digital Camo)
- Armor : AMG's Russian Aerosled NK-26 w/ wheels
- Figure : MIG's Russian Tank Crew (resin)
- Armor: FineMolds' IJA MBT Type97 "CHI-HA"
All by "Pinut Jareanwanit" 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)
- Italeri's F-86F 1:32
- Trumpeter's F-100D 1:32
All by "Nipon"
- Figures: French Mounted Knights 1:72 using Mini Art's figure set
- Aoshima's Roman Warship
- Waterloo's Greek Cavalry 1:72
- Diorama "The Invasion Forces" using Trumpeter's German StuG III Ausf.C/D + Caesar's WWII German Panzer Crew + Italeri's Sd.Kfz.250/9, all 1:72
- Diorama "Panzer Division, Poland 1939" using Trumpeter's figure set
- Armor: German Motorcycle R-12 w/ Sidecar and Crew
- Figures: WW2 USN LCM Crew
All by "Joh"
- 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"
- 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...
