Hawker Sea Hawk – Suez Crisis Musketeer
The Hawker Sea Hawk FB3 was the first successful jet fighter bomber deployed by Great Britain’s Fleet Air Arm and served from the mid-1950’s until the end of the...
Hedgerow Eyes-and-Ears – Puma Sdkfz 234/2 Armored Car
Immediately after the successful Normandy landings by the Allies, their advance into the Cotentin Peninsula grounded to a halt in the hedgerow country, also known as Bocage. The farmlands...
Stuck! – USMC Sherman M4A3 in Iwo Jima
The M4 Sherman, together with the Soviet T-34 and German Tiger I were iconic tanks that dominated the battlefields of WW2. In the case of the Sherman, their sheer...
Vietnam War Bomb Delivery Truck – Vought Corsair II A7-D
In the later stages of the Vietnam War between 1972 to 1975, the bombing raids into North Vietnam and Cambodia were launched by the USAF out of airbases in...
Regia Marina Corvette Cicogna – Italian Sub-Hunter
During the Mediterranean campaign in WW2, the Germans relied on the Italian Navy or Regia Marina to secure the supply routes from Europe to North Africa. While many would...
The Raid – Israeli M113 Kasman and Merkava III BAZ Battle Tank
The thorny issue of the Occupied Territories has been one that refused to go away despite decades of attempted mediation. In the meantime the West Bank has periodically erupted...
M3A1 US Light Tank – Pacific Bush Shredder
The WW2 Pacific Theater was not known for tank battles but many tanks were deployed in the island hoping campaign by both sides as defensive and offensive weapons. The...
Neo Zeon Mobile Suit Nightingale – A Big Red One
After my last Gundam build, I was asked to build another Mobile Suit. This one belongs to the opposing Neo Zeon side and the appearance of this “Nightingale” couldn’t...
Bandai Perfect Grade Unicorn Gundam
Japanese anime fans may be well acquainted with the Gundam series that originally started in the 1980’s, have spawned multiple parallel story lines in the Gundam universe and grows...
Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus Stabswagen, North Africa 1942 – The Town Bus That Went To War
Apart from fighting vehicles, modern mechanized armies ran all kinds of specialized vehicles for the logistics of war. For the Afrika Korp, the Wehrmacht converted the reliable work chassis...