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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 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 [...]
Here’s my latest build from Dora Wings, the P-47C in 1:48. It’s OOB except for Eduard belts and harness and stainless micro tubing gun barrels. I finished it with the last of my Model Master OD and used the markings of Hub Zemke’s [...]
The Gotha 244 was an experiment for adding power plants to the Go 242 transport glider. It was first conceived as an idea to bolt an Argus As 10C 8-cylinder inverted V air cooled “power egg” engine to the front of the glider so that [...]
Some time ago I was given a 1:48 Revell F-84G by a relative who is a yard sale junkie. It had no decals and a build was started by someone, but all the parts were there. I'm not much off a modern jet guy, I like old airplanes. I had [...]
Here’s a couple of my builds of the Polikarpov R-5. Many years ago I built the all-resin R-5sss by Rest Models in Spanish Republican livery. It was a nice kit with good detail. However, after a few weeks of sitting on the shelf I [...]
