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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
