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I'm 70s era kid modeler who returned to the hobby after a long layoff thanks to school and varied attempts at making a career. My build approach is systematic but my subject builds vary on whim as I prefer to dabble in almost anything, but I usually build in aviation and SF.
Most of my reviews are at Modeling Madness.
The Base
Edwards AFB was originally established by Lt Colonel Hap Arnold in 1933 as the Muroc Bombing and Gunnery Range. Based on Muroc Dry Lake and described to be 'level as a billiard table', it became the ideal place for gunnery and [...]
Here are seven photos of Vintage kits I've built. I have a few more, but only have photos for seven of them.
1 Atlantis (Revell) Box Scale F-89 Scorpion
2 1/72 Matchbox A-7D
3 1/200 AMT Moonraker (reboxed Lindberg kit from 2019)
4 1/72 [...]
The Mig-31 (NATO codename: Foxhound) is a two seat long range interceptor designed with four primary missions in mind:
1 Defence of the Motherland from long range cruise missiles and their launch aircraft.
2 Intercept and destroy UAVs and [...]
INTRODUCTION
“BUGS, Mr RICO! ZILLIONS of THEM!”
Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers is one of the seminal and controversial classics of Science Fiction. Viewed by many as an idealized fascist paradise and by others as an important [...]
Note: I wrote this 12 years ago for Modeling Madness. The original photos were lost after my laptop HDD crashed in 2013 and I couldn't recover them to my dismay so this is what the model currently looks like which isn't bad as it survived [...]
The 344th Bombardment Group (Medium) was activated in 1942 as a B-26 Marauder unit at Drane Field which was an auxiliary field of MacDill AAFB in Florida on Sept 8, 1942. It was a training unit till January 1944 when it transferred to [...]
INTRODUCTION
Gerry Anderson along with his ex-wife, Sylvia Anderson, made names for themselves with such great kid SF TV shows such as the the Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett and Fireball XL-7. They were noted for their strong use of [...]
This is my build of the USSR's wildly impractical Tsar Bomba which had proved that there is such thing as too much overkill. Despite making necessary precautions to prevent the Tu-95 Bomber from getting torn apart in the bomb blast, the [...]
I started this kit in 2016 (and only finished it a week before publishing this article) when I came back to modeling after a 2 year hiatus (due to personal issues.) The kit itself is a short run kit that isn't the easiest to build or [...]
Artillery was literally the big gun in the Korean war. Without heavy artillery and skilled forward observers laying down high ex on Chinese and North Korean infiltration/human wave attacks along what would eventually be the De-Militarized [...]
