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Retired air traffic controller, currently a full time Grand Dad. My father was in the US Air Force and I grew up around all the Korean and Vietnam Nam era aircraft. I was a mechanized infantry officer and served in Germany during the late 70's. My primary modeling interest is aircraft, then armor, science fiction, with a few figures and ships thrown in.
I choose Goofy as my original avatar because it's a Christmas ornament that my 5 year old grandson brought to me with the head broken off and no arm between the hand and the shoulder. After he announced that "Papaw can fix anything" I'd like to thank Drill Bit City, Evergreen round stock, super glue and Floquil Reefer Orange for not exposing my feet of clay just yet.
My new avatar is my two grandchildren and I at our Christmas dinner 2014.
I finished this about 2 years ago, using the Kits World decals for "Tex" Hill's aircraft, & Gator Masks for the camouflage.
I rebuilt the cockpit to the proper depth using a combination of kit parts, True Details [...]
Here we are a month after D-Day and I've called this one done. I must admit I'm unsure if this aircraft was used at Normandy or only at the invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon 15 August '44), but be that as it may...Tah [...]
As a memento of the IPMS/UK 50th Anniversary Tour, and being unable to model a massive bout of constipation, and unwilling to spend £40 for one of the Alleycat kits, I purchased the new Trumpeter Vampire FB Mk. 5, when I got home. Little [...]
Another recent escapee from my "shelf of doom" is this 1/72d scale AJ-2 Savage.
I picked up this kit at the last IPMS/USA National in Columbus Ohio and worked on it off and on till last month when I decided to finish it up. There [...]
Out of the box expect for the prop which was lost, raised detail removed and marking from Yellow Wings Decal sheet for the movie Dive Bomber. Purchased in 1984 finished in 2007.
Rick
This is the Fantastic Plastic’s 1/48th scale “Galactic Raider” . The kit is all resin
and consists of 11 pieces and decals by J-Bot. The parts were well cast without any deformed pieces or pin holes, but I did find the resin to [...]
This is the Moebius 1/32 scale Cylon Raider from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series.It represents the Raider shown in later seasons of the series, and is so different from the raiders shown in the early seasons, I resisted [...]
I am one of Vic Russell's partners in the this AMS Relief project. I'm not sure it was entirely effective, in my case...;-), I built this kit when was first released it and I remember it being a " beer & pretzel" weekend [...]
After the cancellation of the XB-70 project in 1957, General LeMay reopened the nuclear powered manned bomber program using the Convair XAB-1 strike/reconnaissance prototype which the CIA had been pursuing with "black funds." [...]
This is my latest completion, and second Tamiya Thunderbolt. I didn't achieve the transparent look on the grey that I was aiming for, but it will have to do..lol
The only issues I have with the kit are the oversized hub on the Hamilton [...]
