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Hello,
I am a life long artist, designer and former Hasbro toy designer from Rhode Island. I build models professionally and I build just about anything! Modeling is my passion!
You can follow me for daily model updates on TikTok where I am known as "The Pope of Plastic".
Please visit my website: http://www.thepopeofplastic.com
Well what can I say? Hands down the best 1/32 scale kit I have ever had the pleasure to build. FINALLY a kit with absolutely zero flaws! Yes they are expensive kits (around 150.00 -200.00) but they should be twice that cost. The [...]
Lordy what a project this was! The big 1/8 scale kit of the McLaren M23 as driven by James Hunt by Entex.
I have been building models professionally for about 10 years and by far this was the biggest challenge! HORRIBLE fit issues, [...]
I don't normally post pics of building progress, but this particular kit has been a complete nightmare.
This kit is from 1972 and is by the defunct company Entex, from horrible instructions to terrible fit and everything in between it has [...]
Not much to say except I love these little Tamiya 1/48 scale Tamiya armor kits, although the tracks were confusing on this one, other than that I built her in 12 hours. This is a fun camo pattern to do.
Well, this was a project for my 36th model of the year. The big 1/24th scale Spitfire by Airfix.
I had high hopes for this kit after hearing rave reviews over and over "this is the best kit ever!" was one thing I heard...a [...]
Here is my latest, the 1/32 scale Air Cobra by ICM. ICM sent me this kit to build, I had never built an ICM kit before and I have to say it was great, only negative was the thin decals but other than that the molding is terrific, no flash, [...]
My 34th model of the year. I just tied my record for models built in one year with 4 months yet to go.
This id a good kit but BEWARE of the decals, if you don’t like doing complex decals then stay away from this kit, otherwise it’s [...]
Hello all,
This is my 32nd model of the year, the 1/48 scale Tiger 1 by Tamiya. These are great kits and usually go together with zero issues, perfect kits for the first time modeler. I always do all of my building live on Tiktok daily, if [...]
Now for something completely different! I was given this kit by my friend who is the head of Transformers at Hasbro toys, I was asked to to a weathered version as a sample for their paint department. They basically provided me an [...]
Here is a little 1/72 scale Catalina by Academy, I’m not a fan of Academy, especially their horrible decals, but this kit was a must have for one of my customers and I was happy to obliged to it is one of my favorite aircraft of WW2. [...]
