This is a pictoral compilation of Chew Eng Hui's Westland Whirlwind (1:72) build which was discussed at length in the forum at this link

This final part focuses on the painting and weathering of the kit.

Here's Tamiya's old 1/35 Panzer Kampfwagen II.

Tamiya Underground is the next feature in our list of local hobby shops in Malaysia.

This article is a compilation of the build log for the Tamiya 1:32 scale F-4C kit with the addition of the BlackBox resin kit with Fox One decals to complete Col. Robin Old's fighter jet at Operation Bolo. This build was competed for the 50th Anniversary of the Phantom II Exhibition organised by F-4dablemodels and Hobby HQ in May 2008 recently. The full build log can be revisited at the forum section here .

This is Tamiya's 1/48 Pacific Brewster Buffalo. I hoped to depict an aircraft from 21st Squadron RAAF based in Sungai Petani, Malaya 1941.

This article is contributed by Wong Kwong Yan detailing his fantastic built of the Academy 48 scale F-16C.

Words and pictures by the author himself.

This is the second part of the article where CK Tang shares the steps of creating a diorama base.

This is another of my “WWII in Malaya" build. This is a Hurricane Mk IIB stationed in RAF Seletar in Singapore. The Hurricanes arrived in Singapore in January 1942, and were too late to stop the Japanese advance in Malaya and they were soon withdrawn to Sumatra.

The is the old Monogram kit, the mold dating back to 1968. This is a raised line kit and came with a zillion of raised rivets on the wings. I rescribe the line on the fuselage and leave the wing rivets alone.

This kit came with a lot of goodies; tropicalised air filter which is needed for the Singapore based Hurricane, and a wide selection of weapons including 20mm & 40mm cannons, rockets and bombs.

The part fit was pretty good despite the age of the mold, however the office is almost non-existence, just a pilot stick to the wall. I added a seat from the Tamiya’s Buffalo kit and some side wall detail. This is by no mean accurate but with the canopy closed, there is nothing much that can be seen anyway. The wheel bay design is for workable landing gear, so it is empty. I also added some plastic card to close it.

Camo painting is done with Gunze RAF colors; Dark Earth and Dark Green, and a lighter tone of the basic colors + white was spray for panel toning effect, and belly was painted with Tamiya sky. Decals taken from kits and the serial number is custom printed.

For weathering, I did a black enamal wash, followed by the paint chips done by using silver pen...finally a layer of matt coat to seal everything.

Photo & text by Thomas Ng

In this 2-part article, CK Tang shows us how he created the Grave Guardian diorama. This first part focuses on the figure construction and painting.

The Tamiya Force Z set was a welcomed set collecting the new HMS Repulse kit with the HMS Prince of Wales, and the British/Australian E-Class Destoyers.

This is my first Gundam diorama, I always have soft spot for special force subject, I wanted to crate a jungle setting diorama with some Gundam kits, the basic idea is around a Freddie special force recon MS team heading up river passing by a team of LSSC crews. The LSSC crews were in awe with the mighty MS, one of them wave to the MS “Hi there, Big Fellows ….." Hence the title of this dio.