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After building models for over 40 years I quit in October, 2016. I have 284 models here at home with 300 awards. I have written several dozen model stories for 5 websites and 4 monthly newsletters.
I built this 1/144th scale model way back in April, 2013 and I went overboard with almost 300 "in progress" building photo's with my new Canon digital camera. Today is February 10, 2020 and I finished sorting out all my photos [...]
I built this 1/144th scale model way back in April, 2013 and I went overboard with almost 300 "in progress" building photo's with my new Canon digital camera. Today is February 10, 2020 and I finished sorting out all my photos [...]
I should have put these photo's in with the story. The first photo shows a real Zebra, and the rest of the Zebra's are made in a factory.
I think ! I made my instrument panel to look like one of these, but I'm not sure, however this is my [...]
Minicraft made a very nice 1/144th scale "C-97 STRATOFREIGHTER" model, which had next to no flashing on any of the kit parts.
It's an O.O.B. model and all I added to it was some small black "b-b's" in the nose, however [...]
I like challenges, so when I spotted this Revell model, I just had to have it to see if I can paint the black stripes on it, so it looked like the real airplane that flew over the "Serengeti" area of Africa. It was used to [...]
Take notice of my first photo and you will see that the decals are breaking up while still on the decal sheet. I got out my "MAT's" decal sheet and chose to use the other "USAF" decals, so it was "goodby" to [...]
Revell made a very nice 1/144th scale kit of this big 4 engine airplane so I bought two different kits. One kit was made to represent an "USAF-MATS" plane while the other kit represented a commercial airline, namely [...]
I finished building this model in March of 2012, then I took it to the next model meeting. One question came up and some guys wanted to know why I painted it "Pink?" I replied by saying: "I found a photo of the real jet on [...]
A modeler wrote and ask why I brush on a "water-thin black wash?"
My answer was to show all the imperfections that are in the plastic such as unfilled panel lines, sink marks and scratches left by my metal files and rough [...]
I kinda went overboard on posting my photos, however I have way over a 125 "in-progress" building photos to choose from.
Everything went together just fine with all the parts, however I screwed up by not dry fitting the rear and [...]
