Till the end of August we’re marking down over 100 kits with anywhere from 10-35%, most of these there is only one of each so first in, best dressed.

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academy stug IV, dragon T34, eduard radio set, masterbox casualty evacuation, Tamiya russian anti tank team, wespe opel super 6

Till the end of August we’re marking down over 100 kits with anywhere from 10-35%, most of these there is only one of each so first in, best dressed.

Check out what’s currently on sale

HERE

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Here’s a few examples

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More Examples HERE

afv club pakwagen, Dragon Models Kugelblitz, dragon models Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf C, masterbox road to the rea, military models sale, tamiya Marder III, trumpeter wz901

If you’re like me you can never have too many reference books and two things I’ve found with buying them here in NZ is A: no-one ever stocks a halfway decent range, and B: when you do find any here they’re bloody expensive ( $50 RRP for an Osprey Modelling title for example ).

So I recently discovered that I can be an affiliate of the best place I’ve found to buy them from, which is BOOKDEPOSITORY in the UK. Their prices are similar to Amazon, so is the range, but the big bonus is FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. And if you buy books from overseas you’ll appreciate how much that saves you.

I’ve posted up some sample titles below that are on my “want to get list” ( hmmm, Father’s day is coming up if any wives are reading ), all are between eight and thirteen GBP ( with one major exception ) which currenly equates to between around $18 and $30 and most of them retail here for at least double that.

So I’ve added an affiliate link over on the right-hand side ( can’t miss it ). If you do choose to buy from them please use that link as I then get a small commission on the sales which helps toward making this website fully self sufficient so that I can separate it from the retail sales and keep it as a standalone Kiwi modelling related website.

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Till the end of August we’re marking down over 100 kits with anywhere from 10-35%, most of these there is only one of each so first in, best dressed.

Check out what’s currently on sale

HERE

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Here’s a few examples

More Examples HERE

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dragon ersatz m10, IBG Einheitsdiesel Pritschenwagen, lion roar B1 Bis photo etch, masterbox motorcycle repair crew, military models sale, tamiya stuka zu fuss, wespe models 12.8cm flakzwilling

This is a photo sent in recently of a Kiwi Sherman at Cassino. We’ve been trying to ID the tub thing on the rear and so far can’t do better than a cut down drum used as a tub of some kind. Open to suggestions on that one. It does make for an interesting view of just how much rubble you get after you bomb a building.

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Till the end of August we’re marking down over 100 kits with anywhere from 10-35%, most of these there is only one of each so first in, best dressed.

Check out what’s currently on sale

HERE

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Here’s a few examples

More Examples HERE

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1/16 kubelwagen, academy wirbelwind, dragon el alamein sherman, faun l900, masterbox motorcycles on the move, military models nz sale, tamiya cromwell, tamiya kubelwagem, wespe models

You know that distinctive gut-wrenching sound that tweezers make when the ends snap together signalling that they have just launched some small part off into the nether regions ? It’s usually the death knell for whatever part it was, because Murphy dictates that the harder the part was to scratchbuild, or the more important and irreplaceable it is to the kit then the more obscure its trajectory will be, meaning it’s projected flight path can defy all laws of physics.

But not tonight. Tonight the tiny four piece, 3mm long latch that I had just scratchbuilt went flying into the blackhole of carpetdom. I’d just spent 15 minutes making it and damned if I was going to lose it. So I can proudly say that after 35 minutes on my hands and knees with a torch I actually found it.

Now I know in those 35 minutes I could have made not only another one but one of the two others I will also need, but that’s not the point. The point is I won. I defeated the carpet monster. I am man, hear me roar. I have conquered my Everest despite big thumbs, failing eyesight, the gloom of 11PM under a table and the littered debris of four days modelling.

Dean 1, Carpet Monster about 30. The fight back begins.

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Till the end of August we’re marking down over 100 kits with anywhere from 10-35%, most of these there is only one of each so first in, best dressed.

Check out what’s currently on sale

HERE

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Here’s a few examples

afv club tiger tank, dragon models tiger tank, ibg einhietsdiesel, masterbox motorcycle sidecar, military models nz sale, tamiya jsu 152, Tasca Sherman

Someone is in need of a set of instructions for the old Tamiya 3.7cm FlaK kit, check out the Community Announcement Pages to see if you can help. This is the old kit, number 32145, as pictured, not the new kit with the crew ( 35302 ) and not to be confused with the 8.8cm Flak 37.

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Good old Auckland weather, it’s gloomier today than a post match Wallaby changing room. No update on the Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.G yesterday as it’s my weekend for my kids to be with me so all I got done was putting the gun together and assembling/cleaning up road wheels, and I’m sure a photo of sanded roadwheels would be soooo exciting.

I will try to get photos up later today though showing where it’s at. Weld seams have all been done, zimmerit has been added to the front of the turret and half the mantlet and I’m hoping today to get the mantlet finished and the turret assembly completed along with a few more boring bits. I’ll get back to the hull zimmerit on Monday when the kids are back with their mum and I can spend the day without distractions.

Father’s day is in three weeks so we’re going to start a Father’s Day sale this week and run it till the end of the month, though I still need to sit down and work out what to put on sale and how much for. If you have your eye on something special let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

I realised yesterday that it’s been over a month since I added any new reviews so I want to try and get a few of those done over the next couple of weeks too, particularly an in-box review of the AM-Works 8.8cm FlaK 37 conversion for the Sd.Kfz.9 “FAMO”. I’ve actually been enjoying doing more actual modelling the past month or so than writing about it so I’m sure you’ll understand that. But to be a site that provides resources and information I also need to get some of that added rather than letting the site content grow old. Finding the right balance is the hard part.

Speaking of which, I like to try and make this a blog that is for modellers to feel a part of as much as readers of, so if anyone wants to add a review of their own, or have photos of their builds added to the gallery feel free to get in touch and fire something through.

And lastly we’re toying with the idea of changing the site look and maybe adding in a few features that makes it a little more user friendly so don’t get shocked if you wake up one day and it all looks different.

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This is the artwork for the just announced Sd.Ah.52 ammunition trailer from Bronco ( see news item below ), which comes at the same time as the announcement of a new 3.7cm FlaK 36 from them as well. In the background of the Sd.Ah.52 artwork is an Sd.Kfz.6/2 5 ton halftrack mounting the 3.7cm FlaK 36 which I’ve highlighted.

Bronco have recently released their “Diana” kit of which the base vehicle is the Sd.Kfz.6, now comes a 3.7cm FlaK 36 and an Sd.Ah.52 trailer. It doesn’t take too much connecting of the dots to see where this is heading.

1/35 sd.kfz.6/2, bronco sd.kfz.6/2

The keen of eye may have noticed that we’ve added a couple of Google ads to the site. Over the next month we’re going to be trialling these and playing around with locations so if people find them overly intrusive let me know, we’re keen to evolve the site but not at the expense of making it user-unfriendly.

This is part of a move towards developing the site which may result in us moving from a Blog to a full site with forums and a new layout, but if that happens it won’t be for a while. For those not yet in the know my wife and I have made the decision to move out of the city and take up small town life so there will be a few changes to come.

One of those you may already noticed on TradeMe, and that is that with the move ahead of us I plan to shut down retail sales for a bit, possibly altogether, so I can focus more on the parts of the hobby that I enjoy plus a few new endeavours which means over the next few months I’m going to be pruning back stock significantly so expect a few sales and a dwindling of stock. If we do stick with retail it will be much more niche. But I really would like to develop this site more.

On a more personal modelling note I’ve decided to finish what is already started and start nothing new until I’ve moved. So next week I’ll be starting a build log on adding zimmerit to a Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.H and then doing a build log on the Sd.Kfz.9 with the FlaK 37 conversion but after that it will just be finishing off the half dozen already in various stages of assemblage. As I pack for the move I’m also going to try and be ruthless with the stash so after the new year there may well be a lot of the personal collection up for sale.

Unless of course something irressistable comes along.

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No, don’t worry, I’m not going to start boring you with details like “today General So-and-So changed his socks”. But there are some genuinely intersting moments in the great World War Two timeline, some memorable for their magnitude, others for their oddity. This one is closer to the second one, because today is the day in 1943 that General George S. Patton slapped a soldier for being in a hospital without physical injury.

Apparently this was neither the first, nor the last, occurence of Patton telling someone to man-up, and whatever your personal views on an incident that seems to have overshadowed all his other moments, it isn’t hard to understand how a man of his character can see someone suffering from combat stress as just being weak willed. This was a time when men were men and expected to act as such, and plenty of other men who had been through the same would carry on regardless and see those who didn’t as weak.

So today in history some idiot newspaperman decided that one man slapping another man with a pair of gloves was somehow a major headline.

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They say you can’t take it with you when you go.

I say you can !!!

The ultimate modelling experience – Build your own tank shaped coffin to be buried in. Or alternately to be cremated in I suppose.

Considering the cost of a decent coffin is a few grand too much to ask for a six foot long model tank that you build yourself and get buried in ?

You could even go for the deluxe motorised version that can be driven into the hole, though you’d probably need a removable gun or to turn the turret around to make it fit ( or just get a bigger hole )..

Or the Uber-deluxe version which fires its own seven gun salute.

Business people get out your cheque writing pens.

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Are the unsung heroes.

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