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This site is a gallery of my finished builds, in-progress projects, tips, reviews, and reference articles. I have expanded my interests into armor modeling but the main focus of this site is still SF3D/Maschinen Krieger.

SF3D was a Sci Fi plastic model series which ran during the mid 1980s. The series was created by artist Kow Yokoyama with Kunitaka Imai and Hiroshi Ichimura. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models. Nitto, a small Japanese company picked up the rights to make plastic kits of Kow's designs. The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They were one of the first multimedia kits produced. The series ended after a few years. In 1998, the series was reintroduced by Nitto and Kow under the new name Maschinen Krieger Zbv 3000.

 

 

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The SU-85i is a what if design by Russian modeler Serzh. He created an original casemate and mantle design and generated a small handful as a conversion kit.

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A build of the Hobby Boss T-28 Riveted Hull. The finish to to replicate the T-28s the Soviets used in Finland in the winter of 1939-40 near the Mannerheim Line.

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The design request for a flamethrower version of the KV-1 was established in 1941. The KV-6 designation may have been changed back or was never actually adopted because it doesn’t  show up outside the initial request documents. The driver operated the  flamethrower which was protected by a fixed armored box. The mount only allowed elevation, traverse was controlled by steering the tank. Only four were built.

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I’ve wanted to build a Tiger tank for a long time but didn’t want to bother with accuracy. Tigers are too well documented, and I would get bogged down trying to match a photo, so I decided to build this as a what-if s. Pz. Abt. 502 VK30.01[P] “Tiger” at Leningrad in the winter 42/43.  I really like the lines on this vehicle, especially without the fenders.

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