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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 model right out of the box back in October, 2015. My photo's tells me that I had no building problems and there was next to no flashing on the parts of this Revell kit. The kit's clear windows fit was next to perfect including [...]
Revell made this kit many years ago so I was kinda wondering if it was a copy of a real flying airplane. With data written on the kit instructions, it was a real flying machine. I found some photo's of the real one on the net.
This kit was [...]
The first 3 photos are of George Lee with his "scratch built "Keystone Bomber." I took the photos at the annual 1988 IPMS/USA National Convention. George taught me how to scratch-build model parts and how to airbrush [...]
This is a 1/48 Scale EDUARD "Mirage 2000C painted up just like what was on the box art and it still is in good shape since I built it in March, 2008.
Enjoy... Rodney
This model was built right "out-of-the-box" back in December, 2010. I added some "b-b's" in the nose so that it would not be a tail dragger. I applied a light black paint wash to the model which was sanded off with 600 [...]
This brings us to the end of building this 1/24 scale P-51D conversion to the P-51B model.
I recall drawing the name of "SLEEPYTIMEGAL" on a piece of artist "Frisket" film, then cutting the name out and then applying [...]
Making a wooden mold was easy to make, so I could "vac-u-form" my windscreen, canopy and half-round side windows. As a child of around 6 year old, we neighborhood boys all had "pen-knives" and use to sit around an [...]
My client wants to know if I can convert a 1/24 scale World War -II P-51D Mustang back to a P-51B? He offered lots of American Dollar Bills, so I said yes, yes, yes!
I had a faint idea as to what I was getting myself into when I said yes, [...]
