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Senso-ji (浅草寺) – Tokyo’s Ancient Sentinel
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Tokyo is the millennium-old temple complex of Senso-ji in Asakusa. Most tours make this place their first or second stop for first-time…
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Paul Ooi Modelworks was as model building service in the Twin Cities from 2011 to 2018. I have since relocated to Northern Colorado and now only build for my own recreation. I have been building plastic model kits on and off since 1972, my first kit being an Airfix 1/72 scale P47 Thunderbolt (still a favorite after all these years).
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Thunder Across the Alps – Austro-Hungarian Mountain Battery at Trentino 1916
One of the lesser known theaters of World War 1 was the face-off between the Austrians and the Italians along the Alps. In the spring of 1916, the hills were alive, not with music, but the roar and thunder of mountain artillery batteries. Many positions were at high altitude above…
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Death Match! – Panzer Mk. IV versus T-34/76 at Kursk, 1943
To date, the battle of Kursk in July 1943 remains the single largest tank battle in history. The titanic struggle between the The Germans and the Soviets in the steppes of Russia involved 6000 tanks slugging it out at extremely close quarters, even colliding sometimes. The climactic action between…
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Tobruk Breakout – Crusader Mk .1 Tank and the Eighth Army
Fleet Street war comics were all the rage among schoolboys in the British territories and ex-colonies in the 1960s and 70s. We grew up with “Tally Ho!” and fighting the Jerries with the likes of Biggles (a mythical RAF pilot who managed to be in both First and Second World…
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Storm Preparation – Sturmgeschutz III Ausf. G in Russia 1943
Not many people except WW2 history buffs and AFV enthusiasts know this: the self-propelled gun Sturmgeschutz III was the most numerous tracked armored fighting vehicle that the Germans produced for the whole war. The Stug III (in abbreviation) was the most common tank-killer on tracks that the Allies encountered and…
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