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30.4.12

Pics: Model Expo 2012

Here they are again: a pile of photos taken at the IPMS Finland stand in Model Expo 2012. A couple of photos were so awful that tehy only  gave headaches to people so some models are missing. I'm sorry about that, it's not intentional. Somehow I had started in the middle of the airplane section so that's going to be the alpha and the omega of this photo set.

Let's see what blogger does to these 68 images this time... Maybe all of them work just nicely, maybe three quarters of them disappear when I press the "publish" button. We'll find out soon enough.

Airplanes

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Image 2: Never seen these in the Expo before

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Ground-based warmachines

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Image 7: A captured Soviet  "Mail train" w/ contents

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Image 9: A Wehrmacht locomotive

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Diorama-like things

Image 14: Through the walls!

Image 15: Heavy artillery ++

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Image 17: A FlaK post

Image 18: "A normal day in Tokyo"

Image 19: Last stand in Las Vegas

Figures

Image 20: A fraction of the figures

Navy stuff

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Image 22: Kursk

Lego!

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Misc

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Image 27: A paper plane

Cars

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At this point a few two-wheelers

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And more cars

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Back to the skies

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Image 44: Another rare model

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Image 57: Some Italian camouflage

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Other known flying objects

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Image 67: This camo is somewhat disturbing

An additional bonus from the next stand

Image 68: Steve

25.4.12

Calmly onwards

I'll be continuing in the mood of my previous post. In plain english that means: small knick-knack has been added on the sides. The left side was a bit lighter than the right one so not much needed to go there at this point, before the painting phase. In case you noticed the headlight on the left front fender, it's pretty neatly detailed: it even has the power cable modeled in! Awesome. Not that I mind fooling around with metal wire and other materials, I just enjoy the fact that the kit offers plenty (or all) of the important things of the actual vehicle out of the box. At least that makes it a bit more likely that nothing's forgotten by accident.



And the infamous kitchen's sink?

The roof of this kitty was full of stuff, doors and items. I haven't attach any the periscopes because it wouldn't make any sense to glue in some transparent pieces before painting everything, I'd just ruin the transparency. That binocular periscope wasn't built by the time I took the pic because I hadn't felt like it. It's an insane thing in the end, this roof.

Almost ridiculous details

The Nahverteidigungswaffe is nicely detailed, too, even though at first glance one might think that there's just a hole to the fighting compartment.Wrong. This optional piece had a nicely detailed close defense weapon on the inside of the fighting compartment but the outside has an open, projectileless barrel.
If you takea closer look at the photo above, that top-middle piece has an individual wingnut on each of those protrudings. Luckily only six of them were needed at this stage.

It's completely sick and insane, I say. Sick, but somehow awesome.

I mean, look at those bastards!