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Interested primarily in WW II aircraft carriers in 1/700 scale, but also 1/72 aircraft, starting with carrier planes but more recently RAF and Luftwaffe as well. And hoping to get somewhere on my backlog of Star Trek kits. A scratchbuilt launch umbilical tower for my 1/200 AMT Apollo/Saturn V is my white whale.
This is one of the Churchills modified for the Royal Engineers to serve as an "Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers" (AVRE), or an "Engineer" tank providing protection to engineers during frontline battlefield operations. A [...]
This is a 1994 boxing of the 1976 Hasegawa Bf109E with decals for three of Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland's aircraft in 1940. I built it as the December 1940 version of E.W. number 5819 at Audembert, France, when Galland was CO of [...]
This is the first half of a future new tool / old tool build comparing the 1958 and 2021 Airfix Swordfish kits.
I have had a new-tool Airfix Swordfish in my stash for some time, but wanted to build it as one of Ark Royal's aircraft [...]
The Panzerkampfwagen IV was one of the German Wehrmacht's most relied-upon weapons in World War II. Approximately 7,500 were produced, with the Ausf. G version consisting of almost 1,700 units during a single year from 1942-43 - [...]
33 years after I started, I finally finished my scratchbuilt 1/700 battleship Texas (BB-35).
I started the model in the spring of 1992, while in the interim between finishing law school and returning to Marshall to start my judicial [...]
This was a quick build of the 1996 Tamiya kit to get myself back in the mood for building ships. It was more or less out of the box - the only modifications were to paint the black antiskid strips on the deck, a PE rail over the bridge, [...]
I completed this 1/72 Japanese fighter today, after four days of work. It is part of the #TonyTonyTony group build on the Bluesky #HistScaleModel group, and is my first group build. It's a straight out of the box build of the 2018 Tamiya [...]
This build is of an initial boxing of the old 1972 Airfix Mosquito that I picked up on a sale table. There’s a far better 2021 new tool Airfix but this is my first Mossie so thought I’d start with an easy one. I decided to finish it [...]
This build is of the new Flyhawk kit, and represents the aircraft flown by Lt. Richard H. Best, commander of Bombing 6, and & ACRM(PA) J.F. Murray on the U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6) at the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
On June 4, [...]
Third time's the charm.
I started on a model of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber - the plane used by the Doolittle Raiders in April 1942 - over 30 years ago, but never finished it. While at King's Hobby in Austin in the summer of 2015, I [...]
