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I'm a retired Lieutenant Fire Fighter / EMT. Prior to working as a Firefighter, I also served in Law Enforcement for several years.
In following with our long line of family military service, dating all the way back to 1776, I'm a US Army veteran (tanker). I served mostly in the M-60A1 and eventually the M1-A1 series tanks. I was a crew member in the Abrams only for a short while.
My Dad was kind of like "Lt. Dan" from the movie Forrest Gump. Fortunately dear old Dad broke our "family curse" of having members killed in every major conflict that the United States has ever had. My Dad was wounded in the Korean War, and thankfully he was not killed. Otherwise I wouldn't be here if he was. I accidentally happened some years later...
My other hobbies include restoring old "Mopar" muscle cars from the late 1960's and early '70s. I also enjoy building aircraft in 1/48 & 1/32 scale, along with 1/35 Armor. I especially like the WW2 stuff. Lately I have been gravitating towards the First World War 1/32 scale aviation kits though...
I built my first model (Revell 1/32 P-40 "Flying Tigers" version) when I was 8 years old. I currently have about 700 kits ( of which about 1/4 are built).
Hello again everyone. The time has certainly flown by. The last time I mentioned this was about two weeks ago.
Now here we are... and today is the first official day of the start of the First World War. I have started a new group [...]
Hello again my friends. This is just a quick reminder that we will have a new group build starting in a little over two weeks from now.
It will be for anything that is somehow related to the First World War.
Aircraft, Armor, [...]
This is the old 1/48 scale Tamiya P-51B Mustang... or is it ?
It also happens to the the VERY FIRST razorback Mustang I have built in about 20 years. With those being the Accurate Miniatures kits which were pretty nice. Say it isn't [...]
Building this model was a first for me. Believe it or not, this is my VERY first Tamiya P-47. EVER ! I know, sad but very true.
I know, I need to get seated at the bench more often... but life has a bad habit of interfering with the [...]
This is a kit I have had in the stash for about 15 years or more.
I jumped at the opportunity to build it as a part of our D Day / Invasion stripe group build as a part of Flight 19 group.
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Previously I had wanted to build this [...]
"The Argentine Squadron"
This is a kit that I have had in "Ye Olde Stash" for years now. I picked it up shortly after I got back into the hobby again, sometime around the mid 1990's. These markings are something that [...]
The First World War started on 28 July, 1914 and ended four years later on 11 November, 1918.
I was thinking about starting a new group build that was dedicated to the men and women who were there. It would follow the exact same dates as [...]
This is a model I recently built. I knew when I heard it was coming out I immediately placed one on Pre Order with Squadron. I am a huge fan of WW2 era Japanese aircraft. When it finally arrived, I posted a kit review on the kit.
Next I [...]
This is a model that I knew I had to get my hands on once it was available. Lo and behold, it was offered for "Presale" at Squadron a month or so ago... Just when I spent too much on other kits for Christmas and I thought my [...]
This is a model that I have been wanting for many years. I have not included any of the history behind this aircraft.
Several years ago I read that ICM was going to someday be releasing a kit of this plane in 1/48 scale. Once I knew [...]
