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Aerospace engineer who enjoys building 1/48 aircraft and 1/350 ships.
Personal website: https://davidsscalemodels.com/
I have had a few requests on how I get my canopies so clear looking. Many times the clear parts in kits can get scuffed in shipping if they are not protected or come loose. Also some jet canopies or bubble top aircraft can have a seam from [...]
Many World War II U.S. Aircraft had three colored lights on the underside of the aircraft. The location of these was typically on the bottom center line of the fuselage or near the edge of the starboard wing tip. The purpose of these [...]
This is the Freedom Models 1/48 scale F-20A Tigershark. Built by Northrop (before they became Northrop Grumman). They used the F-5E as a base and modified many aspects of the frame and avionics to make the F-5G. When the USAF started the [...]
This is the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 B-25B “Doolittle Raiders”. I built it as the “Ruptured Duck” which was the aircraft followed in the film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".
The “Ruptured Duck” was the 7th aircraft to [...]
This is is the Hasegawa 1/48 AH-64D Apache Longbow Attack Helicopter. I added details from the Eduard photo etch cockpit detail set, the Master Model chain gun detail set and used the decals from the IPMS 2010 National Convention. This set [...]
Here are the completed photos of Hasegawa’s 1/48 EA-18G Growler which has been detailed with Eduard photo etch sets (Cockpit, seats, and external) and I used the Two Bob’s decal set for VAQ-209.
All the build photos are in the build [...]
This is the Revell 1/144 scale B-52G. This was built for a gentleman at work who actually was part of the air crew on this 51st Bomber Squadron B-52G. The specific squadron decals and the base decal we made by myself. It was painted off [...]
This is the 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SB2U-2 Vindicator. I the Eduard photo etch detail set. The scheme is the Centaur Vampires of VS-72 assigned to the USS Wasp (CV-7) that operated in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII. I used Vallejo paints [...]
This build was Mirage’s 1/48 scale PZL-23B KARAS Light Bomber of the Polish Air Force. The kit itself was a limited edition that included resin accessories and a collectors coin. Mirage did a nice job on the details of this unique [...]
This is the Glenco 1/48 scale J2F-2 Grumman Duck representing VMF-2 that patrolled the Caribbean Ocean off the Virgin Islands. The Duck’s were used for patrolling areas and performing search and rescue of downed pilots.
The kit had very [...]
