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I'm a retired Lieutenant Fire Fighter / EMT. Prior to working as a Firefighter, I also served in Law Enforcement for several years.
In following with our long line of family military service, dating all the way back to 1776, I'm a US Army veteran (tanker). I served mostly in the M-60A1 and eventually the M1-A1 series tanks. I was a crew member in the Abrams only for a short while.
My Dad was kind of like "Lt. Dan" from the movie Forrest Gump. Fortunately dear old Dad broke our "family curse" of having members killed in every major conflict that the United States has ever had. My Dad was wounded in the Korean War, and thankfully he was not killed. Otherwise I wouldn't be here if he was. I accidentally happened some years later...
My other hobbies include restoring old "Mopar" muscle cars from the late 1960's and early '70s. I also enjoy building aircraft in 1/48 & 1/32 scale, along with 1/35 Armor. I especially like the WW2 stuff. Lately I have been gravitating towards the First World War 1/32 scale aviation kits though...
I built my first model (Revell 1/32 P-40 "Flying Tigers" version) when I was 8 years old. I currently have about 600 kits ( of which about 1/4 are built).
Hello again everyone !
This is just a friendly reminder:
It has been quite some time since this Group Build has started. The "Official" Chinese New Year starts on February 16th, 2018, which is a little over two weeks away. [...]
Hello again all. This is the last of the four Hellcats I was building at the same time for the "Year of the Cat" Group Build. I finished this one up a few nights ago, and photographed it last night.
I wanted to build some [...]
Here she is in all her glory... hot off the work bench.
This one was built as one of four F6F Hellcats that I was building at the same time in our "Year of the Cat" Group Build.
I wanted to build something different, so I chose [...]
Tonight's presentation is hot of the work bench. It is the second completed build for this year, (but most of the work was done last year...).
I have been building a set of four Hasegawa F6F Hellcats as part of our current "Year of [...]
Well the New Year is off to a great start... I just finished up the first model for this Year. Granted, most of the work was done last year, so it only needed some little things completed to make it whole. One down and three more [...]
Tonight's posting will quite probably be my last "new" article for the year. It follows hot on the heels of my other Ki-27 article that was posted last night.
John Clark inspired me to finish both of these kits up when he [...]
Here's one I finished up a few days ago. I finally got around to posting up some photos... I was inspired to post this plane after looking at the excellent posting by John Clark with his "Nate".
This is a fairly recent [...]
This year was a great building year for me...better than most, and quite possibly the best ever...
This was thanks mostly to several Group Builds that were part of this year.
I want to take this time to thank everyone involved here. [...]
It's been a while since I have posted anything... I have been rather busy building several projects in the "Year of the Cat" GB, as well as the "Kasserine Pass" GB too.
So here is one that I built way back in the late [...]
Here's another one of my older builds. I am definitely going to have to build a photo light box... This plane is too big for my current setup, so the quality of photographs are not up to par... She has some hangar rash and is missing a [...]
