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I'm an architect who actually started my career building architectural models. I began building back in the Revell, Monogram, and Aroura days starting out mostly with ships. When a certain T.V. show came along, featuring F4U Corsairs, I started building airplanes focusing on WWII subjects. As I get older I enjoy building models for myself as well as for others. Occasionally I'm lucky and get paid for my works but most of the time I build for free. It just depends on the situation. I also have found the joy and value in model photography. Every model I've built has been broken in some way or the other so having nice photographs of my hard work has been rewarding in many ways.
Check out my website and let me know what you think. It's continually a work in progress.
http://www.mercenarymodels.com
Photos of Eduard's 1/48 A6M2-N "Rufe". Great kit built mostly OOB except for pitot tube made from Albion telescoping brass rod. I used Uschi nylon thread .005 for the rigging. All markings were painted using custom masks drawn [...]
I finished this 1/48 scale Eduard A6M2 Type 21 Zero a few months ago but I am just now getting around to posting it. The plane represents a Zero that was in the second attack wave on Pearl Harbor. All markings including the tail codes [...]
A little throwback today. Since I haven't finished anything in awhile I thought I'd dig into the archives. I posted a few of these pics on other sites here and there but never here. 1/48 Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair finished around 1999/2000. [...]
Tamiya's P-38 is without a doubt the best engineered 1/48 scale model I've ever built. It is simply clever in every respect. I started this model about a year and a half ago and since I started I've completed six other projects. It was [...]
Ken Walsh was the first Corsair Ace while serving with VMF-124 arriving on Guadalcanal in February 1943. Walsh claimed his first three Japanese planes on 1 April 1943 and two more in his next combat action, 13 May 1943. Walsh brought his [...]
Tamiya's 1/48 P-47 Thunderbolt build straight out of the box. I actually started this model sometime around 2001ish and had it about 95% complete around the time my daughter was born later that year. So for that and other real world [...]
This model represents the "Spirit of 76" flown by Major Robert G. Owens, USMC with Marine squadron VMF-215. This aircraft was the first to arrive at the newly captured airfield at Munda, New Georgia in the Solomon Islands where [...]
Tamiya 1/48 P-47D RAF No. 73 OTU, Egypt 1945. This plane represents the plan flown by Chief Instructor, Sqn. Ldr. "Nobby" Clark.
Painted with Alclad II Lacquer paints. Decals are Iliad Design, RAF Thunderbolts (except for the [...]
This weekend I presented this 1/35 scale M577 Command vehicle commanded by Cpt. Michael B. Hartgraves (my Father-in-law) who served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Division, Vietnam in 1969. This was an 80th birthday present my wife and [...]
This is a model I built over 20 years ago inspired from a color (not colorized) photo I found on the internet of an Aichi M6A1 Seiran sporting a unique paint scheme. The plane was found damaged after the war by US occupation forces. The [...]
