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I have been married since 2002 and have two wonderful children. i work as a 3d animator and I used to be a UH-60 Crew Chief from 1993 - 1999.

Hasegawa 1/48 scale N1K2-J George

Hello all! Here is my Hasegawa Shiden-Kai, built straight from the box. The only add on was the EZ Line antenna wire. Once assembled, I sprayed Testors Metalizer Aluminum from a can as a primer coat, then I used Tamiya IJN Green acrylic [...]

Academy 1/48 scale SU-27 Flanker

Hello! Here is my Academy 1/48 scale SU-27 Flanker. This kit was purchased for the equivalent of about $20 in the city of Taegu, Republic of Korea back in 1995 (when I thought $40 was a lot to pay for a kit!). I worked on it here and [...]

Hobbycraft 1/48 scale Mig-17

Hello! So here is my Hobbycraft MiG-17. I bought this kit waaaay back in 1993 while I was in Virginia for AIT. I have been carrying it around with me ever since, and finally started it this past spring. If you can get this kit for [...]

Thanks Again, iModeler!

Hello! Last year I won the random drawing for May, and the new tooling BF-109e-4 by Airfix was my prize. I didn't just want to take a prize and have it sit in my stash because that would seem a bit ungrateful, so as soon as I could, I [...]

Airfix SAAF Hawker Fury, 1/48 scale

Hello all! I finished this one this past January. Built OOB with the addition of EZ line for the rigging. Model Master enamel paints shot through my SOTAR 20/20 airbrush. Dressed in South African Air Force markings as used in Ethiopia [...]

Monogram AH-1F Cobra, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Desert Storm 1991

Hello All! I meant to post this one last year when I posted my USMC Cobra, as I built them simultaneously but then time got away from me... Anyways, this is the Revell of Germany boxing of the old Monogram Cobra, built ALMOST OOB, with [...]

Airfix 1/48 AH.7 Lynx, SFOR Headquarters, Ilidza, Bosnia 1998

Hello all! I present to you my Airfix 1/48 scale Lynx helicopter. I wanted to build this one to represent a Lynx that we landed next to in Ilidza, Bosnia, back in 1998. All I had to go on was one less-than-stellar photo that I took, so [...]

1/48 scale Italeri AH-1W Cobra, Glamoc Gunnery Range, Bosnia Herzegovina, 1998

Hello all! from my "Good from Afar but Far from Good" collection, I present to you my AH-1W Cobra. It is the Italeri kit with the following upgrades: Cobra Company cockpit Cobra Company exhaust correction kit scratch-built [...]

Bandai 1/72 VF-1S Valkyrie

Robotech (Macross in Japan) was my favorite cartoon to watch when I was a kid. It was different then anything else I had seen before it: GI Joe, Transformers, whatever. For the first time, I saw a cartoon that was actually somewhat [...]

UH-1H Huey, A Co. Little Bears, 25th Avn BN, Cu Chi, Republic of Vietnam 1969

Hello! This is the Italeri 1/48 scale UH-1H Huey that I built for a friend and fellow veteran, who asked that I build for his brother, who is also a veteran and also a fellow former crew chief. This is meant to represent his bird while [...]