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Leisure Elephant Ride: The Mughal Emperor is Entertained

Paul       January 17, 2017      Figures     No Comment
It has been a while since I last posted a flat tin figure, and this time it is a leisurely elephant ride for the Mughal emperor in the 17th...
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Armored Fighting Vehicles

Japanese Blitzkrieg – Type 89 Medium Tank (八九式中戰車) approaching Shanghai 1937

Paul       January 5, 2017      Armored Fighting Vehicles     2 Comments
The Second Sino-Japanese War was actually the beginning of WW2 in Asia involving more Japanese troops than the rest of the Pacific War combined. A major battle for the...
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Japan’s Christmas Wish – CV-22B Osprey

Paul       December 7, 2016      Modern Aircraft     No Comment
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force have been eyeing the CV-22B Osprey for quite sometime now. The unconventional tilt-rotor aircraft is ideal for the kind of operation requirements for the...
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Armored Fighting Vehicles

Retired Old Warrior….M5 High Speed Tractor

Paul       October 13, 2016      Armored Fighting Vehicles     No Comment
The M5 High Speed Artillery Tractor was introduced in September 1942 specifically to be able to tow very large artillery pieces like the famous 155mm Long Tom field gun...
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“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place!” – Huey H-1 somewhere in Laos, 1968

Paul       September 30, 2016      Modern Aircraft     1 Comment
I remember watching the evening news back in the early 70’s with news footage of helicopters in the jungles of Vietnam. One of the last pictures to emerge from...
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Satsuki and Mei’s House from My Neighbor Totoro サツキとメイの家

Paul       September 10, 2016      Figures     No Comment
This is the third model feature from the anime movie “My Neighbor Totoro” which is the eclectic 1950’s country house that the Kusakabe family moved to at the beginning...
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Japanese Five Story Pagoda 五重塔

Paul       August 12, 2016      Figures     1 Comment
The Japanese pagoda, while originally derived from Chinese prototypes, came to have distinctive architectural features all of its own. Pagodas usually come in 3 or 5 levels, and some...
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Find Mei! – Cat Bus from My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ – ネコバス)

Paul       August 4, 2016      Miscellaneous     No Comment
As I continue on my series of paper card models of memorable characters from Hayao Miyazake’s fantasy movie “My Neighbor Totoro” , we have the Cat Bus. A zany...
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WW2 Allied Ships

One of A Kind – HMS Albatross 1942

Paul       July 28, 2016      WW2 Allied Ships     1 Comment
I was looking for an unusual ship design to build and came across this 1942 fit of a Royal Navy seaplane tender. The ship seems like two very different...
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Motorized Tricycle from “My Neighbor Totoro” となりのトトロ

Paul       June 26, 2016      Miscellaneous     1 Comment
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) is one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movies because it captures the magic of a childhood in the countryside much like my own at a...
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