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I had three older brothers (and one younger sister) and there was always one of us building some kind of aircraft, be it a scale plastic model or a free flight rubber band powered kit or a gas powered U-Control plane. The end of summer vacation was typically highlighted by the riding our bikes the the waterfront of Toronto and watching the Canadian National Exhibition Air-Show with memories of seeing my first Starfighter or B-52 or being able to (almost) see inside the cockpit of a banking Corsair flying by within the breakwater. By the time I graduated High School though, the model building took a back seat.

Having a itch to make 'something' and being a bit of a history nut and always loving the technical aspect of things, somehow I found my way back to scale modelling after being away for about 35 years.

Finding a community of scale modelers like iModeler is such a confidence booster and provides such great support for any hobby enthusiast.

I looking forward to completing a lot of kits in my old stash and some of the kits from recent purchases - somehow I have ended up in owning over 400 aircraft kits yet to be built - so I do have some work ahead of me and my newly acquired bifocals are ready.

Yokosuka D4Y1-C Suisei (Judy) 1/72 Fujimi

I thought that I would do a quick 1 week build of a plane which impressed me the first time I read up on it – the D4Y Judy. This Fujimi Kit C-16 is labelled as a D4Y1-C which, according to Google/Wiki, was the first D4Y variant to see [...]

F-20 Tigershark

Got another one under my belt recently, I completed this kit a few weeks ago. Kept it simple and straightforward as it was the first time I spraying with Vallejo Air Paints – following the kit instructions for paint identification and FS [...]

1/32 Hasegawa Mustang Finishing comments welcomed

Looking for recommendations on how to finish coat my P-51D. I started building the Hasegawa Kit S12 - 1/32 scale P-51D back in the mid 1980's getting about 90% done with the intention of a OOB build, planning to use the kits decals. Well, [...]

1/72 Heller Alpha Jet Kit No_257

I have been away from scale modeling since 1990's - I can't remember the last kit I actually built. Getting close to retirement, I figured I better make sure I still have the patience to get back into it. This wasn't my first kit getting [...]