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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).
There are now only a few days left until our Midway Group Build reveals… Dear Group Build contributors, please start posting your models between June 3rd and June 7th in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway.
I [...]
Here's one of the Luftwaffe planes I removed from the display case a few days ago,then took a series of pictures.
I removed 4 Luftwaffe subjects to take pictures of in all. (I'll post the others here in a few more days).
This one is [...]
It's been a while since I have posted anything here on Imodeler. Today I took a break from working on anything and decided to post something previously built instead...
Here's one from the display case that I built many years ago.
It's [...]
We have our Midway Group Build that is scheduled to finish around the 75th anniversary of the battle, which ran from June 3rd through the 7th. We have made provisions that allow for projects to be posted after the deadline, to allow for [...]
The time has really flown by since we started the Midway Group Build, which was started to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway. This picture I "borrowed" from Rob Pollock as he originally posted it on a [...]
It's been a while since I have posted an article with a completed build here on Imodeler. I have been very busy lately, with the Midway group build, and some projects going on out in the work shop.
The other day my wife and I were in [...]
Finally finished after 5 years!
I built this tank and had about 95 percent of it finished. It was sitting in my display case awaiting the final touches... So I took a break from the Midway Group Build and finally completed the old [...]
Here's an older build of mine. It's Tamiya kit number 35181, and uses the kit decals from an "Unknown" German Armor unit. This model was built using Dragon individual track links and the crew members were sourced from the [...]
It's been a little while since I have posted any of my builds here. I've been really busy with moderating the Midway Group build, while trying to get a few more planes built before the 75th Anniversary of Midway in June.
Here's a little [...]
We have had this Group Build going for a little over two weeks now. The response has been very positive. In June, between the 4th and the 7th of this year, we will be upon the 75th Anniversary of this significant historical event. [...]
