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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.
I just finished another prewar USN destroyer, this time one of the escorts for TF 16 at Midway, the USS Benham (DD-397).
The Benham class (ten ships, DD-397 to DD-408) represented the last of the U.S. Navy’s treaty-limited [...]
I finished my second 1/144 model - my third in the BlueSky #HistScaleModels #HeaviesGB group build - this evening. It was the Boeing 314 "Dixie Clipper" seaplane as it appeared when transporting President Franklin D. Roosevelt [...]
My second project for the #HeaviesGB group build by the #HistScaleModel group on Bluesky was a 1/72 B-17G finished as the famous "Nine-O-Nine".
The nickname “Nine-O-Nine” belonged first to a combat veteran of the Eighth [...]
I have been an admirer of Franklin D Roosevelt for some time now. When I visit the National World War II Museum in New Orleans I always take a picture with his statue out front, and last year I replaced the small painting at the head of my [...]
Last summer my sons and I toured the Japanese battleship Mikasa, Admiral Togo's flagship at Tsushima, in Yokosuka. My son Parker insisted that I get a 1/700 model of the ship in the gift shop as a souvenir, and I'm glad she did, because [...]
My 1/700 Tamiya IJN cruiser Mogami is the old-tool version of her 1943-45 seaplane carrier configuration.
Mogami entered service in 1935 as the lead ship of a “light cruiser” class carrying fifteen 6.1-inch (155 mm) guns in five [...]
I recently finished the 1/700 Trumpeter kit of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee as it appeared at the time of the battle of the River Plate in 1939. The ship has always been a favorite of mine – my first model of it found [...]
Last Thursday was the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), a Catholic priest who was martyred at Auschwitz on August 14, 1941. When the camp guards selected ten men for execution, Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a young [...]
With the Kettenkrad done, I have now finished the three vehicles in my Academy 1/72 Ground Vehicles Series "Light Vehicles of Allied & Axis During WW II". Following up on the Jeep I did for Memorial Day, I built a little [...]
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I finally finished what I'm calling my "starter Hetzer" in 1/72 because the kit, by Attack Hobby, was not a good one.
The Hetzer, officially designated the Jagdpanzer 38(t), was a German tank destroyer introduced in [...]
