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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 recently completed Ki-51 from Wingsy Kits in 1:48. I was inspired by Wingsy Kits when I did a couple of A5M Claudes a while back. The kit did not disappoint, the surface detail is excellent. My only problem encountered during [...]
Here's my recently completed Roden Ar 68F in 1:48. A very nice kit compared to my Classic Airframes Ar 68E from back in 2010! I added Eduard steel seat belts, individual instrument decals to the panel, replaced the plastic exhaust [...]
I have a couple of PBY-5As in 1:48 and some years ago I came across an old Monogram PBY-5. I got the Belcher Bits #BB06 PBY-2,-3,-4 conversion kit and settled on a yellow wing PBY-4. The conversion set includes a new tail and rudder, [...]
For some time I've wanted the FM-1 and FM-2 variants to go with my Navy collection, but I just could not get excited about the Hobby Boss and Sword offerings which need a lot of work. Then I heard rumors about Eduard releasing the FM-2 so [...]
Looking through some pics of my old builds from the Jurassic period, here's an oldie. Revell's box scale (about 1:77) a friend got at a garage sale. Someone had already started building it, got some paint on parts still attached to the [...]
Today's post by my friend Paul's build of a 1955 Ford pickup inspired me to post a similar build. A good flying, hiking, and skydiving buddy of mine asked me to build a model of his Cessna 172 about 5 years ago. I did so, and a little [...]
Here's my recently completed P-66 Vanguard from Dora Wings.
Others on this forum have detailed the history of the P-66 very well so I won't get into that.
The P-66 is one of the better limited run kits from Dora Wings, much like their [...]
Here's my latest build from Dora Wings in 1:48.
The C.710 were a series of light fighter aircraft developed by Caudron for the French Air Force prior to WWII, the CR.714 was the end result and saw limited production It was of all-wood [...]
Here's a Dora Wings build from a couple of months ago. The Master M.9 Mk.I was a 2-seat wooden trainer with an oval section fuselage covered with a plywood skin using a semi-monocoque approach, invited gull wing, and powered with a [...]
Here's my Gee Bee R2 from Dora Wings. A nice, simple little kit, but I had some issues with it. I am not happy with the windscreen, it just looks too clunky, I tried and failed to make a better one. Also, the real Gee Bee had a very [...]
