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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.
In part one I showed the beginning of making this fine looking model and ended by adding some aluminum tubing to the nose wheel. In Part 2 I'm showing the finished nose wheel along with a print of the real wheel.
I like my canopies [...]
This model is a "GEM" to build and I did what we call here in America; "A Bang Up Job." I have quite a few top quality "in-progress" building images that I though would make a good two-part story.
Study the [...]
I built this model in 1985 and I remembered that I hand painted on the sharks mouth. I use a bare metal paint called; "METALIZER."
I was brand new @ model building .
I knew nothing about "re-scribing" panel lines.
I [...]
My last segment was written about using "Bacon Soda" for my snow and became a great learning experience.
IT'S LIKE:
"Would you put water in your car's gas tank to see if the engine would still operate?
I"m re-sending [...]
My pride & joy F2G Corsair got ruined by my stupidity...I should have did an experiment before I put the soda on the model...RJW
WOW!...Not much to say about this model except that it was a WW-II Russian Fighter. I only have 6 images of it to post. The option say it was built in 1993 and I have no idea who the kit maker was.
I was using Tamiya paints back then and [...]
My written comment say that I built this model way back in 2010, therefor @ 89 years old I can not remember everything I did during the building process, however that process stayed the same for about 30 years.
I spruced up the cockpit and [...]
Here are 4 digital images of my photo studio. As a retired professional photographer and model builder I made this simple set up to take "top-quality" photos of my finished models.
I used my six foot long by 3 foot wide fold-up [...]
My hands began to shake in 2000 and by late 2016 I could no longer produce "quality" workmanship on my models, thus I quit building, however I had a wonderful career from 1977 until late 2016 building model's plus all the regular [...]
Here is the rest of my airline models. I used the kit decals with my Tamiya paints. RJW
