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Wow, that's a lot of models. I doubt I'll go by years since I've built so many in each year, I don't remember what years I finished most of them. So I'll probably post by country instead. I do still have all mine as I can't bring myself to throw out a completed model.

Aside from a handful of builds, I don't recall when I made many of the older ones exactly.... Only where I was living at the time, so that narrows down the timeframe somewhat.... As far as getting rid of models... Many of the old ones I gave to my kids to play with....

That's cool, giving them to the kids to play with. At least they provided good fun before they went away. My mother did that for me; giving me her ships she had built when she was a kid. That's what got me started in model building.

I did that to my own builds as a kid.....countless tank battles fought with a bb gun or a pellet gun. Aircraft falling from the sky - on fire. Oh the humanity.

LyleW wrote:I did that to my own builds as a kid.....countless tank battles fought with a bb gun or a pellet gun. Aircraft falling from the sky - on fire. Oh the humanity.

yes indeed... it's a good thing that parents never spent much time in then backyard when I was a lid or they might have wondered about the scorch marks on the lawn from the close air support strikes...

Continuing down memory lane.... we have builds from 1988 thru 1994... there are too many to put in one post and I am only about 1/3 or so of the way done taking photos of those builds, so I will break this part up into a few posts...
first up, the WWII Red Army....
all are 1/35

Tamiya T-34/76 1943 (early)


Tamiya T-34/76 1943 (late)


Tamiya T-34/76 1942 (modified from a T-34/76 1943 kit, now with a Maquette turret and recently overhauled/reworked)


Tamiya T-34/76 1942 (late)


Tamiya T-34/85


Tamiya Su-85


Tamiya Su-122


Tamiya KV-1 1941(modified from a KV-II with a MB turret)


Tamiya KV-1B 1941


Zvezda/Italeri BT-5


Tamiya GAZ 67B


then come my smallest national collections from that time Japan and Italy
from Japan
Tamiya Type 1 Ho Ni


from Italy
Tamiya Semovente 75/18


Italeri M13/40 (rebuilt)


more to follow...

And from the German side, built between 1988 and 1994... all in 1/35

Tamiya Sd kfz 232


Tamiya Sd kfz 223


Italeri Zundapp KS750 Motorcycle (part of a set)


Italeri Panzer IV F.2


Tamiya Sd Kfz 7/1 Flakvierling


Tamiya Panzer Mk.II F


Tamiya Panzer IV D


Testors/Italeri Panzer 38T


Tamiya Stug.III (backdate conversion using sheet plastic and spare parts from a III G to a III E- done before Dragon did their Stug series)


Tamiya Panzer III J (backdated from the Mk.III M/N kit- before Dragon did their Mk.III series)




Tamiya Sd Kfz 222


Tamiya Sd Kfz 251/3C


Tamiya Kubelwagen


Tamiya SdKfz 2 Kettenkrad


Testors/Italeri BMW R75 (the other half of the set)


Testors/Italeri Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer


Tamiya Jagdpanzer IV


Academy (Tamiya clone) Panzer IV H


Testors/Italeri SdKfz 234/2 Puma


Tamiya Marder II (my first airbrush camo)


Italeri Panzer IV G


Tamiya Stug. III G


Now I just need to photograph my US & UK WWII builds, and modern armor builds from 1988-1994... stay tuned...

My goodness. Quality and quantity.

neat stuff, Stick. What do you do for an encore?

Thanks guys... there is more to come still... a LOT more.... keep watching in a day or two...