
Chairman of Tamiya’s board dies, 18 July 2025
Jul 22, 2025 · Quoted from Tamiya’s social media. “Our company's Chairman of the Board, Shunsaku Tamiya, passed away on July 18, 2025, at the age of 90. We hereby express our …
Do you clear coat over Tamiya metallic lacquer paints?
Mar 22, 2025 · Always had a phobia about BM finishes. Always used acrylics. Thought the Vallejo metallic series was the answer, but paint lift when masking was constant. Now I tried the …
F-14D - Tamiya...but wrong scale...1/72
Oct 17, 2025 · A new tooled Tamiya F-14A in 1/32 scale would be easy for them to scale up the 1/48 scale kit. A 1/32 two seat F-16 would also be great. If they did the F-14A my modelling …
Tamiya Acrylic paint to X-20 thinner ratio - Painting & Finishing ...
Dec 23, 2024 · 50/50 is my default go-to thinning ratio for most paint and thinner combinations, and is a good place to start. You can then vary it from there, depending on the materials at …
Kotare + Laminar Flow Design + Tamiya = Malta Spitfire Mk. Vc
Dec 27, 2024 · A bigger update for today: I've tested the Tamiya wings to the Kotare fuselage and am very happy to report that the fit is very good indeed just dry fitted: There's a bit of a gap at …
1/16 Leopard 2 A7V from Das Werk
Jan 28, 2025 · And Tamiya has announce they're updating their 1/16 Leopard 2 kit to the A7 version. But it's the full option RC version so easily over $1K. The original release was $1300 …
Kotare + Laminar Flow Design + Tamiya = Malta Spitfire Mk. Vc
Dec 27, 2024 · I've been waiting a long time to build this one, a Spitfire Mk. Vc that flew over Malta, perhaps one that participated in Operation Bowery flying from the USS Wasp: I also …
Tamiya 1/32 A6M5 Zero - Works in Progress - Large Scale Planes
Jun 20, 2025 · I've started work on the Tamiya 1/32 A6M5 Zero to add to my growing 1/32 WWII fighter collection. Because I've been posting this progress in another forum, I've collected them …
Viper 'Duel' Build: F-16A-MLU "UAF" / F-16C "NMANG" [1:48 …
Jan 7, 2024 · So on to the subjects for this one. First up is the kit of reference for 1:48 Vipers, the Tamiya one from 2008. Despite being 16 years old now, since its release this kit has been …
Tamiya 1/35 M41 Walker Bulldog - Non-LSP Works - Large Scale …
Feb 18, 2025 · The Tamiya one is very easy to build but very basic. Skybow (purchased by AFV-Club) and AFV-Club made two very good M41 1/35 models. The fun consequence is the fact …