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I am aged 71 in May 2024, I have lived in Sydney Australia since I was 3, have been modeling again since around 2000, I am a member of IPMS, NSW, my main interest is Australian Defence Force aircraft, military aerobatic team aircraft and helicopters, VTO, other themes are NASA, variable geometry / swing wing, all in 1/72 scale, also racing cars in 1/20 and 1/24 scale, also bikes in 1/12 and 1/9 scale, also some 1/144 and 1/200 scale aircraft, also 1/350 scale ships.
1/24 Fujimi, built for the Le Mans 100 GB, more pic's, details there, driven by Ken Miles and Denny Hulme, a controversial finish to this race !
my camera does strange things with the colour depending on lighting and background !
In roughly finishing order, most from group builds, see annotations, various starting times, aircraft 1/72, car 1/24, ship 1/350, it and pic' 1 not posted as yet, still others to post in headlines.
1/72 Italeri, AB 204B / Bell UH 1F, built 07-2023 to 05-2024 for the Italian Air Force 100th GB, more pic's, details there.
1/72 Roden, "finished" for the Valeriy Grygorenko memorial build in 2022.
1/72 Xtrakit, built 2021 for the de Havilland 100 GB, more details, pic's there.
1/72 Airfix, started 07-2014 finished for the Hawker GB, more pic's, details there.
1/72 Avis, built 10-2020 to 03-2022 for the DH 100 GB, more pic's, details there, ------
A7-55 the only one, built at the Cockatoo Island Naval Dockyard in 1931 under the supervision of Lawrence Wackett, it was used to locate the missing [...]
1/72 Revell, my second "NH90" built 02-2022 to 12-2023 for the Helicopter GB, more details, pic's there ! A40-005, the first aircraft assembled at the Eurocopter facility in Brisbane Qld 2007.
1/72 Special Hobby, built 04-2022 to 12-2023 for the Pacific Theater GB, more pic's, details there.
1/72 OzMods, built 2022 - 2023 for my Aerobatic group, more pic's and details there,
A23-052 built in Australia, with the Roulettes from 1998 to 2019, sold 2020 to Blue air training USA as N775BA.
