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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…
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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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Repair, Refuel and Reload!- Soviet GAZ-AAA Truck with M4 Quad Maxim
The GAZ-AAA was the three-axle version of the GAZ-MM truck, which was the licensed Soviet version of the Ford AA truck. The 2.5 tonne truck was the workhorse of the Red Army in the early part of The Great Patriotic War (as WW2 is known in Russia). Some trucks were…
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Lt. Cushing’s Union Steam Picket Boat Number One, October 1864
The advent of ironclad warships in the American Civil War instantly changed the rules of naval warfare. The menacing hulks were difficult to destroy and shore batteries see their cannon shells bounce off the iron sheathing without harming the upper decks. Even ironclads fight each other to a standstill without…
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Waltzing Matilda in Bougainville – Australian Matilda Mk.II/IV and Japanese Type 94
After Guadalcanal and the Allied campaign in the Solomons, the Americans continued westward in their island-hopping effort to bring the war ever closer to the Japanese homeland. This approach bypassed many sizeable Japanese troop concentrations around the Pacific. The Australians concentrated on clearing out the islands immediately north of Australia,…
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Char B1 bis Tank – The French Behemoth
In the Battle of France in 1940, the German main tanks, the PzKpfw Mk III and some early Mk. IV did not enjoy total supremacy. The French actually did have tanks that could defeat these German tanks in the shape of the Char B1 bis. The B1 was large for…
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