StuG Diorama

by Aaron Weidenkeller

                                 This is the diorama I made with my StuG III.

                                 It is called "Endfight 1945" and takes place at the eastern front.

                                 The construction report is shown in the YouTube clip down below.

Panzer IV platoon.

by Kasper Fischer

My first 1/100 platoon for my first Flames of War army.

I love gaming. Especially strategic or tactical games. I have played about a million games of Risk and Axis & Allied through the years. Now I mostly play computer games but it's still tactical games, like Company of Heroes. I have been looking at wargames videos on YouTube searching for modelling channels and I became real curious about the miniature game, called Flames of War.

Flames of War is a World War II game, where you play company commander and have to carry out either an offensive or defensive mission. It's not really realistic and the rules are a bit strange from time to time but I have joined a local club and have been trying it out the last couple of months. I really like it and have decided to build my first army.

The game is made by a company, called Battlefront and they manufacture almost every WWII vehicle made in the war but they are very expensive. With all my other hobby projects, I don't really need another money pit so I have been looking for a cheaper option. The scale is 15mm or 1/100 and as you guys properly know, it's not easy to find models in that scale. New manufactures are starting to appear with much cheaper kits.

Plastic Soldier is one of the new companies. They have started to make a range of armoured vehicles and infantry but are mostly focused on German late war tanks. Because of that, I have decided to start with a German Panzer company and I have made a test platoon of Pz IV's to see how good the kits are. I most say I really impressed by the quality. The box comes five kits for €22, which I think is a really good deal and the details are real crisp looking.

The unpainted tanks from Plastic Soldier.

I have added some over-sized antennas to make them more robust for gaming.

It took me two nights to complete the five tanks and I'm really pleased how they came out. They are only a test platoon and they will not be included in the final army list because I didn't have the right decals for the numbers and such. I have also since decided to add magnets in the turrets for safer handling during gaming and I don't want to after install them in the finished models.

"Ammunition for the beast"

by Michael Rieß



The diorama shows a Tiger I of the initial production series near Leningrad in January 1943.
Some crew members left the tank, the two remaining guys started to resupply the tank.

The Tiger I kit is from Dragon, the figures were made out of several different bits.
The telegraph pole and the fence are from MiniArt.

Type 1 Hayabusa at Kumagaya Flying School 1945.

by Francis Lee


1/72 Hasegawa Scale Model

These Hayabusa (Oscar) and Isuzu fuel truck are classic kits of Hasegawa. I bought them while I was at high school and I build them recently.

The diorama setting was base on the decals data I got that flying schools planes turn to become Japan Mainland Air Defence Force to intercept B-29 in 1944-45. This Kumagaya Flying School is located in Saitama prefecture which is just behind Tokyo, so it is good place to set up flying team to shoot down US bombers that came to bomb Tokyo area.

Video of this diorama.

British 25pdr Gun & Universal Carrier, North Africa

By Francis Lee


1/35 Tamiya Scale Model

This is the first diorama I made in 2012, my computer was broken just before I wanna make the video, I finally upload the video yesterday and I hope you will like it.

These are classic kits of Tamiya, although I wanna buy them since I was a kid, this is the first time I build them.

Video of this diorama

P-51D Mustang, Burma 1945.

By Francis Lee


1/48 Otaki / Arii Scale Model

This is the second plane I select to repaint, I built it 3 years ago and last week I mainly did the overall weathering, I masked the surfaces into small areas and applied darker/ lighter weathering. I found silver paint is easy to get dull (especally acrylic paint) , so I took these photos right the way.

Video of this Mustang

Japan Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) Fighter

By Francis Lee


1:48 Otaki / Arii Scale Model

I reently take a look of my old completed models and I try to repaint some of them, this is the first one. Hayabusa (Oscar), a classic war plane of Japanese Army.

Video of the model

"Panther on the prowl" (1/35 scale)

by Michael Rieß


The diorama shows a Panther Ausführung G tank in Northern France 1944. The Panther is supported by some Panzergrenadiers. I used Dragon´s Zimmerit Panther G (Kit NO.6384), the figures are made out of several left over bits i found in my storage. The rails are from Trumpeter. I painted the model with acrylic paints from Revell. MIG pigments and oil paints were used for weathering.