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Aerospace engineer who enjoys building 1/48 aircraft and 1/350 ships.
Personal website: https://davidsscalemodels.com/
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 [...]
The F7F-3 Tigercat is a sleek looking aircraft that was built and entered service very late in world war II and also utilized in the Korean war. This 1/48 Italeri kit was a nice build but required a base to have it sit on the landing gear [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-47D “Bubbletop”
This is the Tamiya 1/48 scale P-47D “Bubbletop”. It was detailed using Edusrd’s BigEd set and the scheme is Thunder Cals decal set number 48006 using the “Ozark Queen” of the 84th FS/78th FG from [...]
This is a 1/48 Northrop Grumman E-2D built as the prototype aircraft designated as Delta One. I used the 1/48 Kinetic E-2C 2000 and converted it to the E-2D. It was made for a wonderful lady who has worked on the E-2 program for many [...]
