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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 1/72 SE.535 Mistral

Hi everyone! This is my Armee de l'Air Revell 1/72 SE.535 Mistral. The SE.535 Mistral (aka Vampire FB.53) was a licensed upgraded Vampire built by French SNCASE, basically utilizing a more powerful Rolls Royce Nene engine and a Martin [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 P-40B

Hi everyone! This is my presentation of the Trumpeter 1/32 P-40B, finished as a Hawaiian bird. The model was a contribution to Louis Gardner's and the small team of great friends' idea to build subjects relative to the so important [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 Sukhoi Su-27B

Hi everyone! This is my Trumpeter 1/32 Sukhoi Su-27B, finished as “Blue 24”, Poland, 1992. The Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’ is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft, intended as a direct competitor for the large [...]

Italeri 1/48 U-2R

Hi everyone! This is my Italeri 1/48 U-2R, finished as an operational bird. With the rise of the Cold War, the US military recognized that strategic reconnaissance could not be carried out by the then converted bombers and similar [...]

Airfix 1/76 DUKW

Hi everyone! This is my Airfix 1/76 DUKW, built as a participant to David Kopielski's @davids_models inspiring Naval Ships and Boats GB. In order to solve the problem of resupplying units having just performed an amphibious landing, Rod [...]

Revell 1/72 FW 200 Condor

Hi everyone! This is my Revell 1/72 FW 200 Condor airliner, finished as Adolf Hitler's personal plane. Designed by Kurt Tank, the FW 200 resulted from an interwar Deutsche Lufthansa specification for a transatlantic passenger land plane, [...]

Mirage F-1 "ΤΑΛΩΣ" special scheme walkaraound

Hi everyone! The Mirage F-1 "ΤΑΛΩΣ" (Talos) was a commemorative and very charming scheme applied to HAF's Mirage F-1 s/n 129 sometime around 2000 or tad later, if memory serves... In Greek mythology, Talos was a giant [...]

Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless

Hi everyone! This is my Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless, finished as a U.S. Marines bird. "Scout Bomber Douglas" (SBD) Dauntless was the US Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. It was [...]

Kangnam 1/48 F-18L

Hi everyone! This is my Kangnam 1/48 F-18L, finished as a what-if demonstrator for the Hellenic Air Force! Back in the late seventies, where the F-18 project was in good progress, Northrop and McDonnell Douglas partner companies were [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk.Vb, Royal Hellenic Air Force

Hi everyone! This is my Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk.Vb, finished as a Royal Hellenic Air Force bird. Extensively used not only by the RAF, but also by other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II and produced in greater [...]