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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 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 [...]
Here's my early P-47B from Dora Wings in 1:48 I finished awhile back and just got around to taking some photos. This is one of their better kits in my opinion, everything fit well except the top and bottom wings at the wing root. The [...]
