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Interested primarily in WW II aircraft carriers in 1/700 scale, but branching out lately into some 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.

TBD-1 Devastator month

My last project for TBD Devastator month is repainting my old (2017) George Gay 8-T-14 TBD into the correct colors and markings for Lt Cdr James Brett’s T-1 on the Lexington at Coral Sea. I had two sets of T1 decals, but neither had [...]

1/72"George Gay" Midway TBD-1 Devastator - v.2

Seven years ago I completed my first aircraft builds, a trio of U.S. Navy aircraft to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. I modeled one of each of the three types of carrier planes that operated from the U.S. [...]

1/72 TBD-1 Devastators

I have been collecting 1/72 Devastators in my stash for the past couple of years with an aim towards upgrading my current George Gay TBD-1 at Midway, and this double build represents an effort to clear the backlog of kits and decals before [...]

1/72 SBD-5 DauntlessVB-16, April 1944.

“White 35” was a SBD-5 assigned to VB-16 on the USS Lexington (CV-16) in April 1944. It was flown by LTJG George Blacken & RM Leo Boulanger. I used a 1996 boxing of the Hasegawa SBD-5, which came with decals for White 45 of the [...]

2023 Build Review

After not completing a model at all in 2022, I bounced back this year with 11 builds and two refits of previously completed models, with two of the builds replacements for previously completed models, freeing up space (a new ongoing [...]

HMS Hood - May 1941

After over 30 years, I finally have a good 1/700 HMS Hood. The ship has always been one of my favorites, and I've held a spot at the top of the display case for her for a long time. I had (and still have) the 1/600 Airfix and 1/400 [...]

Scale Modeling Organization, Database, Task Lists and Posting

It's a sickness. It really is. But part of the enjoyment I get out of puttering in my study (and attached model workshop) is organizing my materials. For years I have had relational databases of my library and my files, and I recently [...]

New Build Docks (6 & 7)

I get far more attention online for my build docks than my models - which is usually fair! Back in 1992 when I had some time on my hands after finishing law school and the bar exam and waiting to move back to Marshall to start my [...]

1/72 PzKpfw III Ausf. L.

This is my first tank build since high school - appropriate since attending TankFest last summer. It's a early 1943 Eastern Front version of a Panzer III - Revell 1/72 kit. The paint went on a little dark, and I tried to lighten down [...]

Butch O’Hare F4F-3 refit

In May of 2017 as part of my 75th anniversary of the Pacific War battles of 1942 I built a 1/72 Academy/Minicraft F4F of Butch O’Hare’s F4F from when he won the Medal of Honor for engaging nine Japanese bombers attacking his carrier, [...]