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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 just posted my Rolls Royce car model so it's best that I duplicate another fancy model and like the "RR"model, I found some real photos of the "540."
I have heard of the name Mercedes Benz company but what does the [...]
The box art says that this model is made by "Italeri" and its' in 1/24th scale. All the parts were 99% free of flashing and sink marks. This car was built almost "o.o.b." just like so many of my other models. I added [...]
As mentioned before, I like building tanks as they are easy to put together. This model is built "O.O.B."
Enjoy!
Rodney
Double WOW! I found this model on the web and bought it flat out. Why would I do that? Let's back up to 1947 as this is the answer.
My cousin "Jim" came home from the Navy in late 1945 and lived with his parents in Alliance, [...]
Another fine looking sport's car to build and add to my growing car collection beside's all those Cadillac's.
I may have just polished out the white car body as I do not recall all the things I did to it.
Enjoy RJW
This was my 2nd car model after I made my pink Caddy. I don't have any "in-progress" building images and I do not recall who's silver looking paint I used as I built it in the early 1990. As mentioned in other car stories, the [...]
My first photo show's my real 1958 Cadillac in 1960 at "La Playa de Tamarindo" in Mexico where I would leave cold Ohio winter's and come often for a vacation with my adopted Mexican family, "El familia de los [...]
This tank kit is another fine example of a quality factory model. It had next to no flashing and the parts fit together with no problems.
It looks like I made some hand/foot brackets from my different size's of modeling wire. They were [...]
This is a very nice 1/72 scale model to build with no problems at all. Everything fit together and all I did was lightly sand the parts that fit to another part. I have used thin super glue since 1985 and their gap filling glue only.
The [...]
I don't have a photo of the bag that this model came in, nor the instructions, so I just looked at the parts and put it together and then painted it. I built a small styrofoam base and applies some hobby shop model grass on [...]
