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My addiction to aviation started in November 1966: I was just 3 months old, when my Dad - then an Officer at Hellenic Air Force - and my Mom decided to put me in a C-47 for one of the marvelous short flights offered free to the public during the annual celebration of the Hellenic Air Force. Was in my straw porte-bébé, simply laid on the C-47 floor, no seat belts whatsoever, as no one wore and, yes, those were the days!

Since then I’ve been addicted to anything that flies, with a preference to military airplanes (my career in the Hellenic Air Force and a flight offered to me with a Mirage 2000 only boosted this addiction).

I started modeling at about the age of 9, when my Dad brought me an 1/72 F-5A, sealed in a plastic bag, molded in lovely black styrene, its twin exhausts immediately catching my eye: modeling became a love affair ever since. Had two long breaks from my beloved hobby, being active – hopefully for good - since 2018.

I have two wonderful boys, born in 2015 and 2017, who consume most of my "free" time; still I try to find a couple of hours every day or so, to sink in my modeling paradise. I mostly build out of the box with the occasional scratch building and just have fun building my models! I am generally no contest minded, mostly due to my incompetence, but I love group builds!

In love with motorbikes, passionate with Pink Floyd and rock music, in love and passionate with life in general. I love seeing people smiling and do whatever I can to achieve this.

Addicted to reading from modeling sites (especially the wonderful Modelingmadness) and feeling grateful to be a member of iModeler! This is such a fantastic site, with all these amazing modelers and their beautiful work I admire – a constant temptation for me!

Revell 1/144 Junkers G.38

Hi everyone! This is my Revell 1/144 Junkers G.38, finished wearing its last scheme. It was a large German four-engine transport aircraft which first flew in 1929. Two examples were constructed in Germany. Both aircraft flew as a [...]

Academy 1/72 F-104G Marineflieger

Hi everyone! This is my Academy 1/72 F-104G Starfighter, finished as a stand model. Germany received 916 “G” (for Germany) all-weather ground attack Starfighters in total. They were 2,000 pounds heavier than the original F-104, [...]

Revell/Matchbox 1/72 T-2E Buckeye

Hi everyone! This is my Revell/Matchbox 1/72 T-2E Buckeye, finished as a HAF bird. Still the only training jet aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force , it’s high reliability and excellent, forgiving flight characteristics (it easily recovers [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 Shenyang J-5 (Mig-17F)

Hi everyone! This is my Trumpeter 1/32 Shenyang J-5 (歼-5), a Chinese-built single-seat jet interceptor and fighter aircraft, derived from the license-built MiG-17F. The first J-5 (Φ0101), performed its initial flight on 19 July 1956 [...]

Revell 1/32 F-4E Phantom II, Hellenic Air Force

Hi everyone! This is my Revell 1/32 F-4E Phantom II, finished as a Hellenic Air Force bird, wearing the "older" Vietnam camo. The Phantom entered service with the Hellenic Air Force in 1974 under the arms program “Peace [...]

Eduard 1/48 Yak-3 Normandie Niemen

Hi everyone! This is my Eduard 1/48 Yak-3 that I finished some time ago. Petite and lightweight, with its high power-to-weight ratio, the Yak proved to be a formidable dogfighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both [...]

Heller 1/35 SA 321G Super Frelon

Hi everyone! This is my Heller 1/35 Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) SA 321G Super Frelon, finished as an Aéronavale bird. A large single-rotor three-engine heavy transport helicopter, it held the distinction of being the most powerful [...]

Classic Airframes Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, Samoa, 1942

Hi everyone! This is my Classic Airframes 1/48 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, VMO-151, as it stood in Samoa island, 1942. The Curtiss SBC Helldiver was a two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber built by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It was [...]

Mirage F.1CG Walkaround

Hi everyone! Here are a few mostly close-up shots of two HAF Mirage F.1CGs. The HAF Mirage F.1CGs equipped the 342 and 334 All Weather Squadrons. A peculiarity of the HAF F.1CG was that they used the American Sidewinder air-to-air missile. [...]

F-102A Walkaround

Hi everyone! Descended from the plans of Dr. Alexander Lippisch, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was an American interceptor aircraft that was built as part of the backbone of the United States Air Force's air defenses in the late 1950s. [...]