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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.

1/144TH GERMAN WW-II SKI PLANE

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 [...]

THREE SPACE SHIPS

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 [...]

George Lee & his Keystone, etc.

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 [...]

MIRAGE 2000C

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

1/48 Scale Monogram "F-80 Shooting Star."

1/72 "SWORD" P-80 Shooting Star

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 [...]

The end: “Sleepytimegal. “

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 [...]

Another Mustang Story.

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 [...]

Part Two: P-51B Mustang.

A MODEL CONVERSION - PART ONE.

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, [...]