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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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I love the look of the Sandstalker hover reconnaissance cars from the old SF3D magazine articles. There is no injection molded kit of the Sandstalkers in any scale. There have been a handful of garage resin kits but these are super hand to come across. I decided to scratch build mw own Sdh. 222F

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Category: Mercenary

Read more: Sdh 222F SandStalker 1/35

 

During the years 1941 thru 1943, Great Britain sent a little over one thousand Matilda tanks to the Soviet Union as part of the Allied Lend Lease Program. The Soviets appreciated the armor protection of the Matilda but were underwhelmed by the 2 Pounder cannon as it became less and less effective against the improving German armor. To improve the penetrating power of the Matilda, plans were made to install the M1941 ZiS-5 76mm tank gun found in KV-1 tanks.

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Category: Military Vehicles

Read more: Matilda with 76mm F 96

 

The OT-130 is a flamethrower tank based on the T-26 tank chassis. It was developed by the Soviets in 1938 and produced until 1940. The flamethrower range was 50 meters and had 40 shots worth of fuel and propellant.

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Category: Military Vehicles

Read more: OT-130 Soviet Flame Tank

The IS-2 is one of those iconic Soviet tanks of WWII. Large caliber gun, beefy tracks, rough casting texture and welds, plus photos show these things beat to hell. What a perfect subject for a model. I’ve wanted to build this for a while but it took me some time to finally get it on the bench.

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Category: Military Vehicles

Read more: IS-2

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