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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.
This is the what was left over from building Ed's car!
Its' the1960 Ford Starliner model. Since all of the parts looked good with next to no flashing, especially the frame, I choose to build this car.
I decked out the engine with [...]
My long life high school friend Edward ask me to build a replica model car and make it look like the real car that he owned. I said yes, because every time I came down to the "GoodGuys" yearly car show in Scottsdale, Arizona I [...]
I added another car to my model collection and it was built right out-of-the-box. The car was also called a Classic Cruzer by Monogram.
The kit had a "T" shirt decal included so I wondered how to use it. After cutting around all [...]
Sometime in the early 1990's I met up with "Pylon Dave Jone's" who lived in Oklahoma/U.S.A. Dave sent me over 500 color 3-1/2" x 5" prints. I scanned in all of the photos, including several black and white prints then [...]
Sometime in mid 1990 a guy call's me on the phone and say's: "I'll pay you five grand to build me a 1/48 scale Apache Helicopter." I was a bit "flabbergasted-gasted" but I said I will do it. He sent me a package in the [...]
I never took any photos during the building of these models, so what you see is it.
All of my submarines were built o.o.b. and painted per the kit instructions and places on the kit's little mounting stand. It was a joy to build them [...]
We all have hear about John F. Kennedy's life via the net, including newspaper print.
While walking around in the hobby shop one evening back in 2012, I came across this 1/72 scale PT-109 model made by Revell. I ask "AL" at the [...]
This is another model built o.o.b with a base, including some paper flags. On final assembly I noticed that one big sail had the wind coming into the sale at a different direction while the wind was coming into the other sail at an [...]
This was another o.o.b. ship model which was easy to build. Like my Roman ship, I used the kit's plastic sails. All the sails on both ships looked realistic to me. I think I added some white paint to the sails, but I don't [...]
Are you tired of building cars, airplanes and armor, then try a ship or two. This model was small but that's ok as I have built other small models and they don't take up too much space in your house.
The model was built o.o.b and the kit [...]
