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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 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 [...]
Here's my just completed Sally. For a history of this aircraft, see Louis Gardner's excellent post of his build.
I must say that this is one of the nicest kits I've dealt with lately, like the Beaufort from ICM that I built a few months [...]
Here’s my XB-19 in 1:44 from Anigrand, an all-resin kit. This scale is not my thing, but it’s a B-19, something I’ve wanted since childhood, and so was happy to have one in any scale. Even so, it is a decent sized model. I don’t [...]
Here’s my build of the Caproni Ca. 100 by Legato in 1:48. I scratch built some fuel lines and vents, rigged the control surfaces with nylon thread, rigged the wings with stainless flat wire, and built the spoked wheels with Eduard PE. [...]
For some time, I considered kit-bashing a Mustang to add a rear seat, tall tail, and tip tanks for the Fantasy Mustang I would like to have in 1:1 scale. My piggy bank was never fat enough for the 1:1 version, so I’d have to settle for [...]
Here’s my build of the XP-72 using the 1:48 Halberd conversion kit with the Tamiya P-47D. An excellent conversion, the Halberd resin mates perfectly to the Tamiya kit. The XP-72 was the ultimate Thunderbolt, a P-47 extensively modified [...]
Here's what happened when I tried to build two Revell PT-17s at the same time. I spent more time sniffing glue than reading instructions and things got a bit confusing...whatever,
As I was thinking about all the thousands of future [...]
Here’s my Heinkel He-46C-1. a resin kit from Planet Models in Condor Legion livery. Built mostly OOB, I just added some seat belts and stainless bracing wire on the struts. Model Master paint and kit decals. An easy build.
In 1931 the [...]
I recently built a couple of models from Wingsy Kits and was impressed with their quality and detail. I didn’t have a 109E in my SCW collection, so decided to do another Wingsy kit. A few Bf-109E-1s and E-3s arrived in Spain just [...]
Here's my CW-22B from Dora Wings in 1:48. It was a fairly easy build, it just needed a little thinning of the cockpit tub at the rear for a good fit. I used a section of an old bomb to make a spacer between the engine and firewall, as I [...]
