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I'm 81 years old and worked as an attorney at law for more than 50 years. I'm married and have 2 children, a son and a daughter. My son works with Lufthansa and his main field of interest aviationwise are airliners.
Beside model building I love shooting high quality picures, mostly airplanes in action. For many years I worked as a freelance aviation Journalist for different international aviation magazines.

"HUNS" over Europe

My special field of interest are cold war jets in their colorfull unit markings. Today I want to show you one of those birds, Trumpeter's F-100 D "Super Sabre" in 1:32 scale. With a couple of corrections a nice "Hun" [...]

Convair B-58 “Hustler” in 1:48 scale

As the Dakota, the mighty Convair B-58 "Hustler" is a good subject to show how aluminium foil gives such birds an absolutely realistic metal finish. As all Monogram kits, the model is easy to build and I did it o.o.b. To foil [...]

Dakota forever

Thanks for letting me in to your society and I want to start my entree with a model in 1:48 scale of the most famous airplane of the world, the DC-3/C-47 Dakota . The ancient Monogram Kit was used and the model has been built right out of [...]