86 articles · 48.4K karma · 50 friends · active 2 hours, 8 minutes ago
I am twice-retired. I retired as an Air Force pilot (C-141) & instructor pilot (T-37, C-141) in 1993. I spent the next 20 years teaching high school social studies & also as an adjunct instructor at a local junior college. I retired from high school teaching in 2015 & taught my last college class in the spring 2016 semester. I currently teach two adult education classes each semester for a local school district. I began modelling when I was a kid and continued until the 1980s when my flying began to make my modelling time nonexistent. This trend actually got worse when I became a teacher. Now that I have time to model again, I find myself trying to sort through the many new techniques & tools available now. Over the years I kept buying kits, but not building them because they were easier to move while still unbuilt in the box. So now I have a two-car garage completely filled with unbuilt airplanes, armor, ships, space ships, and a few cars. I am now building my way through this cache of thousands while still selectively buying new kits. I am also two-thirds complete on an HO Scale train layout and I just started a small N Scale layout. :o)
It has become somewhat traditional on iModeler to finish off our modeling year with a look back at the models we have added to the display shelf. It is fun to look back because I often forget many of the kits I have completed. I seem to [...]
Hi, everyone. I built this model for the "The Great War: A Tribute to Those Who Served" Group. I don't build biplanes, so my first contribution to the group was an armored car. When the ground machine was done, I thought I [...]
I was looking for something I could build in parallel with the 1/28 Revell Triplane I was working on, and this model popped up on sale at one of the online hobby stores. Even though I prefer models in a larger scale, this one looked so [...]
I have reached an age where the parts in 1/72 kits are both too small to see and assemble, so I don't normally stray into the smaller scale kits. I recently received this Arma Hobby 1/72 FM-2 as a gift from my friend Bernard (@lis), so I [...]
First, let me say that I build airplanes, so this model was way out of my wheelhouse. When Louis (@lgardner) created this group, I thought it might be fun to jump into the group with something other than my usual airplane model. I have a [...]
This build starts with a story that I read in the British magazine "Flypast". I had never heard this story, and it was so cool that I couldn't resist building a model to represent the Spitfires in the story. So, first is the [...]
This is the fourth of four F-86s that I have built for the "F-86 Sabre and FJ Fury Group". I chose the Italeri 1/48 F-86E for this build, which actually comes from the old ESCI molds from 1979. The biggest problem with this kit [...]
This is Sabre #3 that I have built for the Sabre and Fury Group Build. I usually never build more than 1 model of a given type of airplane, and I usually never build more than one at a time, so this group build has launched me into new [...]
Hi Everyone:
This is my second F-86 that I have built for the F-86 Sabre and FJ Fury Group. I plan to do one more Sabre before I call it quits on Sabres for a while. This is also my second all-NMF Sabre. Prior to these two NMF Sabres I [...]
When I arrived at Williams AFB in 1976 for my first day of Air Force pilot training, I was greeted by an immaculate F-86 that was the gate guard at the time. The F-86 has been one of my most favorite planes since then. Spiros (@fiveten), [...]
