Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I may as well jump in on this bandwagon honoring the 75th anniversary of VJ Day that marked the end of fighting in the PTO. Here's my tribute to Ike Kepford who was the Navy's highest scoring WWII F4U ace with 16 victories. I built this [...]
My contribution to the VJ Day Anniversary and some of the models that I have posted here on iModeler. Stay safe my fellow modelers.
Here are mine:
1/72 Hasegawa Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien "Tony"
1/72 Academy Consolidated PBY-4 Catalina
Revell 1/72 PT-109 Elco torpedo boat
1/48 Tamiya Nakajima A6M-2N "Rufe"
1/48 Tamiya Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate [...]
"Foxy" from the 45th FS/15th FG based on Iwo Jima, 1945
Not a very happy ending to this beautifully marked aircraft which is "parked" under that pile of smoke
It was struck by the aircraft "parked" [...]
This model kit is one of my old wishes – a very early Spit with Watts two-blade propeller and the "flat" canopy in 1/48 scale. Eduard has released it's "Spitfire Story" box just two weeks ago, so it was a real quick [...]
Had more than I thought.
1/48 Monogram P-51B with a hand painted “Tommy’s Dad”.
1/48 Otaki P-51D decals by MSAP
1/48 Hasegawa P-38 decals by Aeromaster
1/48 Otaki Ki-61 decals by Superscale
1/72 A6M3 wing tips from a 1/72 Monogram [...]
The first Bristol Beaufighter model I built was in the early 1970's when I was a teenager. It was 1:32 scale and I remembered that it didn't fit together very well. I recall painting the model entirely in black and even fabricated the [...]
Some of my models from the Pacific War:
Erik Shilling's AVG P-40, flown on the first Allied offensive mission of the war, December 10, 1941, to photograph JAAF at Bangkok.
P-40E "Tarheel," 2nd Lt George Preddy, 49th Fighter [...]
