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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".

1/32 Scale Italeri F-104G ASA-M Italian Air Force with real aluminum skin

Well I have started my second F-104 in less than a month! I was commissioned to do this kit for an Italian test pilot that flew this F-104, so here I go again! Cockpit and engine complete, now onto the hard part...the aluminum skin 🙁 I [...]

1/48 Scale Macchi C.205 Veltro "Luftwaffe"

This is a 1/48 scale Macchi by Hasegawa that I got at a yard sale for 2.00 a few years back. While I waited for the mailman to bring my next big project I decided to build this to cut the boredom. Kit was simple, fit was pretty good, [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Scale WW2 Aircraft Carrier Tug

Hello all, I updated this post with pics of the painted tug operator added. Well while I wait for another F-104 kit to arrive I decided to cut the boredom by building the little tug that came with my 1/48 scale Corsair kit. Took me a whole [...]

1/32 Scale F-104 Starfighter with real aluminum skinCompleted!

Hello all you sheltered in place modelers! Well I have finally completed the 1/32 scale F-104 with all aluminum skin! This is something I always wanted to do, and now I can finally say I have done it! (If I never see thin aluminum again [...]

Real aluminum paneled Italeri 1/32nd scale F-104CBuild in progress!

Hello stranded at home modelers! This is something I've wanted to do once in my life and because of this virus I decided to dive in! This is a F-104 with all individual panels made from real aluminum, not that bare metal c**p. I have [...]

Tamiya 1/48th Scale Corsair

Well while we try and stay coronavirus free I am doing a lot of model building. Here is my finished Tamiya 1/48 scale F4-U Corsair. I have to say this was the worst fitting Tamiya kit that I have built. Weak wing assemblies, weak landing [...]

Tamiya 1/48th Scale F4U-D Corsair build in process

Well I guess a lot of us are building Corsairs so I guess I will share my progress on the kit I am building. This Tamiya 1/48 scale kit is pretty fun so far. I am adding in lots of details as I go. I will do the folded wing version to make [...]

1954 Hudson NASCAR 1/25th scale Moebius Models Kit

UPDATE! I have finally finished this Hudson for Jay Ward of Pixar. I have added all of my custom designed decals and the model is now on it's way to Pixar! This is an interesting build I have almost completed for Jay Ward the head of Pixar [...]

Fujimi 1/24 scale Porsche 356A

This build was for a 356A owner and I had direct access to the actual car. This kit was decent but not great. Very poor instructions, lots of weird parts that seemed to be for another kit, brittle plastic and confusing build sequences. To [...]

Tamiya 1/20 scale Mercedes 1955 Gullwing

This is another build built for the owner of this actual car. This model was almost built right out of the box with a few scratch built details. This kit is a great build and it was made easier due to being able to visit the actual car [...]