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  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial 1: Making a Wooden Platform Helipad
    • Tutorial 2: Wooden Hard Stand for Aircraft
    • Tutorial 3: Filling Large Plastic Seams
    • Tutorial 4: Diorama, Sicily 1943
    • Tutorial 5: Making a Gun Emplacement with Earthworks
    • Tutorial 6: Basic figure painting (1/35 scale or 54mm)
    • Tutorial 7: Filling Large Mouse Bite Gouges
    • Tutorial 8: Frames for Vacuum Formed Clear Canopies

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Soviet Scud D Missile (R17 VTO) and Launch Vehicle (9P117M1)

The Soviet tactical ballistic missile program started in the aftermath of WW2 when information obtained from captured German technology  propelled that country into the missile age. In the 1960s and…

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British Army Coyote – Tough Truck for Tough Work, Helmand Province 2011

Senso-ji (浅草寺) – Tokyo’s Ancient Sentinel

About the Author

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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Himiko and Cherry Blossoms – Tokyo Water Bus (ヒミコ水上バス) on the Sumida River

Japan is a land of contrast between the super modern and the traditional, and none illustrates this better than this scene in April along the Sumida River in Tokyo. The Himiko River Bus plies a route between Odaiba and Asakusa and among the places that she passes are the Sumida…

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M4A1 Mortar Carrier – Shells on Wheels

The basic White M2 and M3 half-tracks and their variants were some of the most ubiquitous vehicles of the US Army in WW2. These had very long careers, spanning even into the 1980s in Lebanon and Africa. These trucks were tough and extremely versatile for all kinds of missions, ranging…

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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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Nordic-Con 2015 – Aircraft

NordicCon 2013 Part 3: Ships, Figures and Cars

NordicCon 2013 Part 2: Armored Fighting Vehicles

WW2 Allied Aircraft

The Big Tailed Beast – Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver from USS Yorktown

Westland Whirlwind – Dieppe Raider

Northrop P61B Black Widow – Pacific Night Hunter

Modern Ships

Himiko and Cherry Blossoms – Tokyo Water Bus (ヒミコ水上バス) on the Sumida River

Full Speed Ahead! USS Hercules (PHM-2) & USS Taurus (PHM3) at the Florida Keys

HMS Eagle R05: The Suez Crisis

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