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Retired A&P. My main interest is !:48 WWII and pre-war Golden Age aircraft, but I sometimes build in other scales if the subject matter interests me.
Here's a rescue from my Shelf of Doom. It's the old Italeri kit in 1:72 I bought on impulse from the bargain table about 15 years ago just because it was cheap and appealed to me. I thought about building it several times, but put it off [...]
I’ve always wanted a He-111B Pedro to go with my SCW collection. I’ve been kicking myself for not getting the Cutting Edge conversion for the Monogram kit eons ago. The reviews I’ve read by builders of the Roden 1:72 kit sounded [...]
Here’s my build of the Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk II from Accurate Miniatures in 1:48. A really nice kit OOB, like their F3F-1 and F3F-2 kits.
One of the most exciting aircraft of the interwar period was the Grumman G-22, a one of a kind [...]
Here's my recently completed Fairey Flycatcher on wooden floats by Armory Models in 1:48. For an interesting history of this aircraft, I refer you to Tom Cleaver's article and build of his Flycatcher on this forum. This is a very nice [...]
Here’s my build of the Revell Ju-290 A-5 in 1:72. Not my scale, but I have quite a few subjects in 1:72 (or smaller) that interest me. I picked up this big beast at the local hobby shop on impulse a couple of years ago and finally got [...]
Here’s my latest build, the new DH 89A Dragon Rapide in 1:48 from Armory.
Railway Air Services (RAS) was founded in 1934 when the four prominent British railway companies - Great Western Railway, London Midland & Scottish, London [...]
I just read Tom Cleaver's post of his build of this fine kit and was inspired to post mine after I decided not to bother. I usually shoot a few photos of a new build indoors to check for flaws, omissions, mistakes, etc. Before I could [...]
Here’s another $5.00 rescue kit I picked up at the bargain table at a contest awhile back, the Glencoe Curtiss Model T-32 Condor in 1:48. It’s kind of crude by today’s standards, but I wanted a Condor. It is my one and only build of [...]
Here’s my 1:48 Modelcraft UC-64A Noorduyn Norseman I picked up cheap at a contest a few years back. The main complaint about this kit is the exaggerated rib/fabric detail. It had the “starved cow” look. I sanded the ribs down until [...]
Back in 2015 I raided my piggy bank and treated myself to an hour's worth of aerobatics in The Collins Foundation's Mustang "Betty Jane". I have some T-6 time and I always wanted to fly a Mustang, and on that day my dream came [...]
