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TreehuggerProduct photos everywhere for this kit is conflicting. Either shows build with apparent photo etch railings, but only one small sheet of photo etch which obviously doesn't contain photo etch railings. Weird.
Update: I found a build guide on a Japanese website, and no photo etch railings are seen in the instructions, also, just this small sheet of PE in the drawings for what the kit contains.
15 November, 08:33
November 13, 2025
TreehuggerAnyone have an idea what the newer updated kit is about? This would have to be compared to the Hasegawa 68008 kit.
Tadano Rough Terrain Crane GR-130NL/N Crevo mini G4 "H-Type Outrigger"
Hasegawa 1:35
66110 2024 New parts 12 November, 16:52
Treehugger AuthorBought something for Christmas, to get my hobby going again. Something fairly uncomplicated.
12 November, 16:57
Treehugger AuthorI think I can see it now. The kits differ in how they have different support "trusses" on the sides.
13 November, 18:22
November 12, 2025
TreehuggerLearned today that 11.11 is "Singles day" in China, with what looks like some kind of "Black Friday" discounts. Though where I live in Europe, media often point out that retailers trick consumers by artificially inflating prices before a sales campaign. Still, grabbed two kits off a website, as the price was the lowest I've seen in an eternity (on these two kits I had in mind). Heh, good thing there aren't many clear parts, because I am confident the two kit boxes I'll receive will be slightly damaged during shipping. :| AliE is such bullshit for buying scale model kits, but I did eventually find something I wanted to buy.
12 November, 20:20
October 20, 2025
TreehuggerI find the lack of 'reviews' on this item disturbing. I only see "previews" listed. 🙂 I would have assumed that this would be a very popular kit being from Tamiya and given the 1:32 scale (though somewhat expensive).
All comments (9) » 3 5 September 2019, 15:48
Andrew RiceThis model was one of the best to come out of Tamiya. This model is what is termed 'a flagship' model, but it's status has been lowered a little because of other models that have been released in the Tamiya line.
11 September 2024, 03:37
Greene105I have done 2 of these and about to start my 3rd for someone else. This kit for being more then 20 years old is amazing. And you can get it for $150/$130 on Amazon. We'll worth the $
1 20 October, 14:48
July 28, 2025
TreehuggerIs this a re-boxing?
If a new mold (unknown?), then surely the Minicraft build manual is irrelevant.
I guess this is a re-boxing of a Minicraft kit then.
27 September 2023, 09:27
jaydeckerAs of early this year, all Minicraft's toolings were sold to Academy as the company closed down. Thus, the molds are from Minicraft, and Academy now produces the kits.
1 14 October 2023, 17:15
wunderwunder: wrong instruction (color schemes) also red stripe on white bars national insigna decals (After 1947)
I know few AMPHIBIOUS, only 40 at all, and produced well after the 2nd WW 1947 prototype 1948-49 series so it's impossible the Non Specular Sea Blue,Intermediate Blue,White (US NAVY used until 1944)
I suppose they are in Sea Blue Gloss all around
XPBM-5, amphibious version with retractable tricycle undercarriage. produced 1947 Martin Middle River, Maryland (M) BuNo. 59349
PBM-5A production version, many for military export. produced 1948 – 1949 Martin Middle River, Maryland
BuNo. 122067/122086 (20) BuNo. 122468/122471 (4) BuNo. 122602/122613 (12)
28 July, 12:51
December 28, 2024
December 18, 2024
TreehuggerOh, wow, so nice using this new airbrush for the very first time. 🙂 *muah*
--> Gaahleri Mobius 0.2mm
Btw, I am using a thinner mix when airbrushing on Vallejo primer. Vallejo primer paint is ALWAYS sifted through a small tea sift to avoid potential clogging. Sometimes small flakes of dried flakes will come out of the primer paint bottle.
Mix: 70% flow enhancer + 30% thinner, and then add 10% retarder medium (gooey slime)
Mixed 50:50 with the Vallejo primer paint. Mixed outside of the airbrush paintcup, in a small glass jar.
I will have to try remember to wipe clockwise when cleaning the paint cup, as the changable cup is screwed on and will eventually get loose when pushing in a counter-clockwise direction.
--> Gaahleri Mobius 0.2mm
Btw, I am using a thinner mix when airbrushing on Vallejo primer. Vallejo primer paint is ALWAYS sifted through a small tea sift to avoid potential clogging. Sometimes small flakes of dried flakes will come out of the primer paint bottle.
Mix: 70% flow enhancer + 30% thinner, and then add 10% retarder medium (gooey slime)
Mixed 50:50 with the Vallejo primer paint. Mixed outside of the airbrush paintcup, in a small glass jar.
I will have to try remember to wipe clockwise when cleaning the paint cup, as the changable cup is screwed on and will eventually get loose when pushing in a counter-clockwise direction.
18 December 2024, 10:53
December 15, 2024
Treehuggeradded a new photoalbum.
16 images
Trumpeter's HMS Naiad in 1:350 scale
1:350
I really want to avoid ending up with the "1mm thick plastic" look, and for that I need to remove the plastic on many pa...
8+All comments (13) » 16 7 November 2024, 12:31
Ingmar StöhrIf you cover a plate with a material which shrinks or expand while drying, or when humidity changes... This can always result in a bend to the whole assembly. A friend of mine encountered this in an extreme form, when he used some children's air drying clay on a foam board. This is the reason why I try to use special epoxy clay, with very low to nearly no shrinkage.
3 December 2024, 12:06
Treehugger AuthorUpdate; In photo #13 the stand is basically done except for colors/more paint and the filling required between the hull and the gaps around the hull in the hole in the stand.
I like how adding the additional 4mm acrylic plate, added the extra height to lift the keel of the ship higher than the table surface, even though the keel isn't visible per se, makes the ship look like it floats better I think, no longer parallel with the table surface like before.
5 December 2024, 20:46
TreehuggerDSPIAE GH-003
I have already the default tungsten drill bit grinding tool that comes with this electrical pen drill, but it isn't very usable for very specific things like carving out plastic inside a cavity, I need a grinding tool with a flat tip.
A mask must be worn, and one mustn't contaminate one's working place while grinding away the plastic.
I need to buy this so badly. Removing plastic without a grinder is sooo tedious. So tedious. 🙁 Have I told you how tedious it is to remove plastic? So tedious. 🙂
This set referenced at the top is a grinder tool that is flat at the end.
There is thie other full set as well: DSPIAE 56976 GH-10
I'll order both, even though I get double of some of the tungsten drill grinding bits.
I have already the default tungsten drill bit grinding tool that comes with this electrical pen drill, but it isn't very usable for very specific things like carving out plastic inside a cavity, I need a grinding tool with a flat tip.
A mask must be worn, and one mustn't contaminate one's working place while grinding away the plastic.
I need to buy this so badly. Removing plastic without a grinder is sooo tedious. So tedious. 🙁 Have I told you how tedious it is to remove plastic? So tedious. 🙂
This set referenced at the top is a grinder tool that is flat at the end.
There is thie other full set as well: DSPIAE 56976 GH-10
I'll order both, even though I get double of some of the tungsten drill grinding bits.
15 December 2024, 20:17
December 13, 2024
Litaki 1:144
December 10, 2024
Treehugger"Only 350 pcs" Is that humblebrag? 😄
All comments (5) » 1 8 December 2024, 21:36
gorbyMaybe I shouldn't have said "I think"...that number isn't the number of parts in the box which make up the model, it's the number of kits which they intend to produce – like a limited edition. Avis do the same, confusing thing.
I have this kit, which has only 36 parts in the box and yet the box says 500pcs.
Lee-Richards Annular Monoplane-3 (AviS BX 48001, 1:48)
1 10 December 2024, 07:35
Treehugger AuthorOh this is weird. I thought it meant the number of parts in the box. So a "short run" then.
10 December 2024, 07:42
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