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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).
I have had this model in the stash for many years. I have been wanting to build it ever since the day I bought it from Hobbytown back in 2010 or so. For some reason I never got it on my workbench table. So it sat there on my armor [...]
This is a model that I wanted to build for a while. It is a Dragon / DML Late War Jagdpanther kit in 1/35th scale.
I built it as a project with my friends who have been together since before we posted our original Flight 19 Avenger [...]
This is a model that I have wanted to build ever since I first picked it up. So when my friends came up with the idea of building some models for the latest Flight 19 group project, this was one that came to mind.
Having previously [...]
This is a sad but true story of an event that shook our family on this day in 1945. Between 0840 and 0845 hours, on April 8th, 1945, a B-25J from the 100th Bomb Squadron crashed into the Sulu Sea, killing all six men on board during a [...]
WARNING : This article will include some images of war that are gruesome in nature. Reader discretion is advised.
Monday, March 6th, 1945.
Allied forces are trying to capture an intact bridge that crosses the Rhine. There is an [...]
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 [...]
