From TimG - Soviet Hurricane

 Having commenced the build of this ancient Revell Hurricane with no particular plan in mind I eventually decided to follow up my recent La-7 and finish it as a Soviet machine in much the same colour scheme.  I hand painted some shaky stripes on the tail and the decal box provided the rest.  Given that the Hurricane is  - certainly to my eyes - such a distinctive shape it's quite difficult to make it  look 'different'.  I hope you think it's a success.

From TimG - Lavochkin La-7

 When I ran a Little Cold Wars game based on Task Force Smith in Korea a couple of years ago I used  a Lavochkin La-5 as part of the NKPA air support. I happened to mention at the time that it really should have been an La-7 which earned me displays of mock outrage from the players.  Carrying on the joke, a couple of weeks later John presented me with this fine (and presumably very cheap) kit, insisting that it be ready for a re-run of the scenario. It was a simple kit to build and I opted for a colour scheme based on the box art. 

Terrible twin Tigers by TimG

These 1/48 scale kits came  - with some other bits and pieces - off eBay a few months ago. I’m not sure what make(s) they are, but some of the bits were in a Nitto box. There were actually three  Tigers, all were rather battered. So over the past couple of days I’ve rescued two more or less complete tanks for the pile of bits. Both already had a base coat of dark sand so I added a version in of the rather glamorous ‘ambush’ scheme and applied a minimal selection from the decal box.