1:144 scale modeling
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Pan Am Douglas DC-8-32 Clipper
The Revell kit has the wrong engine for a -32, but I still love this plane.
1/144 Airfix SR.N4 Hovercraft
1/144 Airfix SR.N4 Hovercraft
Vintage kit of great hovercraft. A lot of clamps and pressure required to get the main sections to fit. Interior details fine for their time. Less fit issues than many 'see thru' models.
1/144 Czech Master Resin Martin JMR3 Mars
1/144 Czech Master Resin Martin JMR3 Mars - Complete resin kit. Very fragile translucent propellers and landing gear.
Used brass pins for durability and strength on every join especially ‘beaching-landing gear’. Beautiful resin [...]
Pan Am Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Another from 35 years ago when I worked at Pan Am. The paint has faded a bit, looks great.
Pan Am Boeing 314 Clipper
I originally built this 35 years ago, a little damage on the prop. The other models are mine also.
Tupolev Tu-134UBL 'Crusty-B'
The Tupolev Tu-134 is a narrowbody regional airliner, that was designed in the early ’60s and was in production from 1966 until 1989. Following the new design that was pioneered by French Sud-Aviation Caravelle airliner, the rear mounted [...]
1/144 DC-9-33F – SAS 75th Anniversary Group Build.
This is an original issue Airfix kit from 1973. I picked it up at a show back in 2017 for $4 US. I dabble in airliners and Douglas products are my favorites. It’s not a bad kit 50 years later. It’s only real failing is that the [...]
The First and the Last: Junkers G.38 & Arado E.555
It might have been another very cold January 1945 night, but for Hauptman Ziegel and his crew, the situation could not have been hotter: there they were, flying at 30,000ft with their Amerikabomber fully loaded. Took off from Bordeaux at [...]
And now for something completely different....
For me, anyway! This is an RX-78-01(N) Local (North American Type) combat robot, or mecha, from the Japanese cartoon series "Gundam". According to the Wiki site, he is 18 meters tall, manned by a single pilot in a torso [...]
