Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Aircraft by Braille Sergeant - December 24, 2011January 15, 20121 Wishing each and every one of you happy holidays and an awesome new Year. May 2012 bring you boxes filled with joy, sprues full of happiness, display cabinets full of happiness and the power, will and health to fill, sand, and rescribe all the raised panel lines life might throw
WIP: 1/72 Heller/Modelex Bf 109 G In Progress by Braille Sergeant - October 17, 2011October 17, 20111 This is my Work In Progress on a Heller bf 109 rebox by an Argentinean plastic toy company called Modelex. They are known in Argentina for offering old Heller kits like their 1/72 Spitfire, Zero, Draken, an assortment of Migs and my favorite, the TF-104s. Usually available dirt cheap at
Review: Monograph Douglas B-26 Invader in the Chilean Air Force Reviews by Braille Sergeant - October 10, 2011October 25, 20111 This edition is printed in laser and is made of contains 32 pages. It includes 36 photos (8 in colour) and 23 profiles complement the information, many of them of previously unknown camouflage schemes. 547
Review: E.T. Model’s Photo-etch sets for Jagdtiger and Kingtiger Reviews by Braille Sergeant - October 10, 2011October 25, 20110 Juan Contreras shares his views on E.T. Model's photo-etch sets for these very popular German AFVs. 535
The Pfeil-bulous Dornier 335 Aircraft by Braille Sergeant - September 3, 2011March 5, 20121 Fabian Vera turns Dragon's 1/72 Dornier Do 335 Pfeil into a great model of this awesome and rather unconventional WW2 aircraft 382
Weathering Italeri´s Jagdtiger “331” in ambush camo Armour Featured by Braille Sergeant - August 22, 2011October 17, 20114 After improving and detailing our braille Jagdtiger, we now move forward and give it some personality by applying decals and some weathering. We will also take care of one of the biggest defect of the Italeri kit, the toothless tracks. 265
Walkaround: Sherman V (M4A4 75mm) – Ejercito Argentino References by Braille Sergeant - August 22, 2011April 18, 20161 Between the 1946 and 1948 the Argentinean government acquired a huge amount of surplus WW2 armament from European countries, mainly from the UK. According to "Blindados Argentinos", by Ricardo Sigal Fogliani, several variants of the Sherman were acquired by 0.20 US$ the kilo and exchanged for agricultural products. 341
Painting Italeri’s Sd.Kfz. 186 Jagdtiger “331” Armour In Progress by Braille Sergeant - August 17, 2011October 17, 20112 In the previous steps of this series we improved Italeri’s Jagdtiger kit by modifying the basic kits parts and the addition of plastic sheet and mesh, then we went even further forward adding some aluminium sheet and cooper wire scratchbuilt details to our Jagdtiger scale model. This only means we
Detailing Italeri’s Sd.Kfz. 186 Jagdtiger “331” – Part 2 Armour In Progress by Braille Sergeant - August 17, 2011October 17, 20114 In this second installment we’ll continue detailing Italeri’s #7030 Jagdtiger model kit with aluminum sheet scratchbuilt details and a little help from the spares drawer. 226
Detailing Italeri’s Sd.Kfz. 186 Jagdtiger “331” Armour In Progress by Braille Sergeant - August 16, 2011October 17, 20115 Simple fixes and scratch-built additions that will enhance this rather old Jagdtiger kit and turn it in a proper scale model of the heaviest and probably most sinister AFV of WW2 200
Scratchbuilding a 1/72 bucket for your WW2 tanks Tips by Braille Sergeant - August 11, 2011April 18, 20160 Learn how you can easily produce this accessory that will improve and add that extra bit of authenticity to your German WW2 armour models. What you will need: Piece of tin, or aluminium sheet. You don’t need to go out and buy this, a lot of regular household items comes in aluminium
Inspiration: Armored US Jeeps References by Braille Sergeant - July 26, 2011April 18, 20161 Right after Dragon announced ther were realeasing a kit featuring not one, but two "1/4 ton 4x4 armoured trucks" my heart jumped sky high. Hopefully this images will serve as inspiration for other lovers of this small, yet nimble and emblematic American vehicle. 41
Dragon: new 1/4 ton 4X4 Armored Truck Twin Pack Armour News by Braille Sergeant - July 26, 2011July 26, 20111 That's right, two Jeeps...err... two "1/4 ton 4x4 Armored trucks" in a box. As usual with their Dragon's "Armor Pro" and "1+1" series this release will include small fret of photo etch details (in this particular case the armoured plate) a lot of nicely slide molded parts (as seen in
Revell’s new tooling Ju-88 A-4 captured in the wild! Aircraft News by Braille Sergeant - July 25, 2011August 22, 20110 OK, it is no Bigfoot, but still exciting news. Last week Hyperscale published some picts of Diedrich Wiegmann's build of the kit, and he reports it as being "all-new tooling, and not a re-release of anyone else's mould". Well, let me tell you all, it looks like a little gem,
WIP: Airfix 1/72 Brazilian Super Lynx Samba In Progress by Braille Sergeant - July 23, 2011October 17, 20111 You know the drill, you open a box, start a simple cheap kit to step away from that mega project that is draining you down... only for it to become your next mega draining project. That is how this 1/72 Lynx started for me, almost a year and a half
