This site is undergoing maintenance. Be patient while I look for a new theme.


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.

 

 

Home

When the KV-1 first rolled onto the battlefield, its armor was all but impenetrable against every tank and anti-tank weapon the German Army had. With the introduction of larger and more effective tank and anti-tank guns, the KV-1 needed an armor upgrade. One expedited solution was to bolt on 20mm standoff armor plates called “Ehkranami” (with screens).

Details
Category: Military Vehicles

Read more: KV-1 Ekranami

I’ll be honest, I was never that much of a fan of the Camel. It’s such an ungainly looking vehicle that doesn’t look like it could possibly function on the mon. It took me a while to finally com around and I must say I have some new appreciation for the Camel.

Details
Category: Mercenary

Read more: LUM-168 Camel

This is my build of the worker suit from IHYSC. It was a limited run resin kit from 2009 mastered by Jason Eaton. He kindly sent a sample way back when and I finally got off my ass and built it.

Details
Category: Mercenary

Read more: Worker Suit

The UDK Schenkle is an iconic SF3D design. Mechanical/organic shapes coupled with wires and hoses all over the place. This is the Schenkle resin garage kit from 2012 and as far as I know, the only 1/35 Schenkle kit. Maybe 25-50 ever produced.

Details
Category: Mercenary

Read more: UDK 38 Schenkle

Page 2 of 3

Latest Articles