VIP PEOPLE IN JAPAN

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While I continue my trip in Japan, I would like to share with you some photos of some important people in Japan. There are much more, but I will try to upload them as soon as I can back to Spain. I was luckly to meet the next people, some of them for frist time, and another is old friends like Mashahiro Doi.

Goshima san is the manager of KIYA shop, in Tokio. He organize the best model tank competition in Japan and he is a great guy! Go to OGIKUBO and visit his shop if you have the oportunity to visit Tokio.

Makoto Takaishi is one of the bigger influence for many modellers nowdays. I met him in ART BOX Headquarters in CHIYODA area. I was happy to meet with him and talk a bit in his office. He is very talented and very smart.

During my meeting with Makoto Takaishi, Kashiwagi san, chief editor of Armor Modelling helped us to have a fluid comunication in English. Makoto cannot speak english. Our conversation was very interesting talking about different styles of modelling, techniques and much more. I would like to talk more with them, but not time enought in one day. Was a great experience for me to stay with they and I give want to give them a BIG THANKS!

Kanenko sensei is one of my favorite modellers in Japan also. He is very friendly, always smiling and he is a great modeller. His works is superb and very original.

My dear friend Lincoln Wright. He is almost half japanese, but he is from Australia. He work for Machinenkrieger company (the futuristic military robots) and he paint these stuff extraordinary well. He speak a perfect japanese , so he helped me a lot in our meetings!

Goshima san and Eiki san , from Yellow Submarine shop in Akihabara area, Tokio. Both of them are funny guys, great people. I will miss them!

Well, that s all by now. I will try to upload more stuff very soon. Japan is one of the most important countries in the world about modelling, and we need to learn a lot from them. For them, the modelling is something very important, but their modelling philosophy is even more interesting for us, western modellers. I really recomend to EVERYBODY to visit Japan someday, because your modelling life will change for sure.

Domo Arigato Nihhon, thank you very much all of you friends!

Mig Jimenez

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VK1602 Leopard, 1945

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I finished yesterday this new model from HobbyBoss. My friend Carlos Cuesta made it for me, and I painted it. Even if this tank waas designed in 1941, I wanted to place it in any forest in germany, in October of 1945 (yes, another what if)

It was painted with Luftwaffe colors, inspired in a modern Russian 2S3 with more or less the same camo pattern.

Thank you for watching it.

Mig

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CATERPILLAR ENGINE

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Hello friends.
long time without update my blog, because I was really busy, making some trips and finishing some models. During the next days, I will upload other models. Today, just a small bit...a Caterpillar engine that I painted for one of my friends. Don't ask me for the scale, because we don't know it. It a old ERTL kit without box, and we have not idea of the scale, but is very huge!
I hope you like it.

Here some step by step of the process. Nothing extraordinary, just the classic techniques.

Thank you for watching

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Africa Korps DIANA

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Hello one more time. After a very busy November month, I finished the beutiful DIANA kit. I was very delayed with it, because the constructions phase was a little tired for me (I like very simple kits), but I am happy with the rsult because it is a impresive vehicle. It is out of box, and painted with 2 layers of hairspray technique overlaped. I used here the new AK interactive Africa Dust Effects, and definitly it is my favorite color, because give me a very realuistic dust effect for desert vehicles. Finally, I want to thank to David Grummitt for his support with this project. I hope you like it and any comment is welcome as always.

Thank you very much

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Opel Blitz Out of Box

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I finished this Opel 2 days ago. Just like a base for weathering effects and play with the mud and streaking effects. Is out of box, no PE , no extra details, just a Tarp that I made long time ago, ratiator cover and wheels. This one supose tow a Flak, but of course, no time to make the flak.
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Termine este Opel hace dos dias. solamente como base para hace effectos de pintura y jugar con el barro y los efectos escurridos. Esta de caja, sin fotograbado, sin detalles extras...solo el toldo que hize hace tiempo, el cubre radiador y las ruedas. Se supone que debe de tirar de un cañon flak, pero no me dio tiempo a hacerlo.

I hope you like it.

Thanks

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