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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 Avro Vulcan was a quad engined delta wing tail-less jet nuclear bomber designed for the RAF. It was part of the trio of bombers that made up the UK's V-Force (V for Vengeance) as part of the UK's nuclear strike force. The Vulcan [...]
The P-38 Lightning was originally planned to be a high altitude twin engined bomber interceptor. It was designed by Clarence Kelly Johnson's team with its now famous and unique twin boom configuration around the turbo-supercharged engines [...]
The Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat was borne from the failures of the F4F-1 and F4F-2 which was lacking in performance than the winner of the US navy monoplane fighter competition, the Brewster Buffalo. It was quickly ordered by the French and [...]
The Mig-15 (NATO codenamed: Fagot) was the premier jet fighter of the Soviet Union during the early 1950s. It was developed out of the ashes of the Mig-9 which was a disaster in part because the designers placed the armament right in [...]
Bud Anderson (as of this writing) is the last living WW2 ace. He was born in Oakland California and joined the USAAF in January of 1942. He would be one of the best known pilots of the famous 357th Fighter Group and his planes Old Crow [...]
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 [...]
