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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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This is my interpretation of a study for a smaller turret for the KV-2. It never went any further than the initial drawing. 

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Category: Military Vehicles

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The LunaDiver is one of those instant classics from MaK. It’s a perfect balance of organic design and mechanical details.

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Category: Mercenary

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The Beutepanzer Pz.kpfw. KW 1b 756 (r) was a one-off field modified conversion of a captured Soviet KV-1 cast turret that was armed with the 7.5cm KwK 40 L/43. Research suggests this was used at Kursk and lost in July 1943, but details are scarce and only one photo was available of this unique vehicle at the time of build. A second photo was published shortly after completion of this build.

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Category: Military Vehicles

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This project started with an internet photo and a messenger chat with my modelling friend Serzh in Russia. I’m not entirely sure how I came across an image of a proposed project to mount an 85mm gun into an M4A2 Sherman. There was only one drawing and the project was quickly cancelled.

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