45 articles · 3.3K karma · 12 friends · active 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

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".

Tamiya 1/20 scale 1997 Ferrari F110B Schumacher

This little race car is a great little model and a wonderful kit. I got to take this actual (real) car up the hill at Goodwood last year and as a tribute I wanted to build a model of it! It was great having the actual car available to me [...]

Tamiya Niki Lauda 1974 Ferrari 1/12 scale vintage 1975 kit

The Tamiya Niki Lauda Ferrari build was built for Niki Lauda's charity right after his passing in 2019. This build was quite challenging, but overall the kit really holds up compared with modern day kits. I did have to scratch build many [...]

Monogram Apollo 11 vintage kit build

This Apollo 11 build was a commission build for AirBus in France and quite the challenge! I used a vintage Monogram 1/48th scale kit from 1970 and it is not very good. I basically scratch built everything using the included parts as a [...]

Tamiya 1/35th Scale Willy's WWII Jeep Build

I always wanted to build this little kit! I was in-between commission builds so I went to my hobby shop to look around and I saw this kit and I had to buy it! I built this little kit in just a few days, and what a fun kit this is! Tamiya [...]

CH-46E “1-2 Lady Ace” As flown in Iraq and Pakistan in 2010

This is a very special build that I did for Marine Col. Todd Oneto (hence the number "1-2" on the aircraft). I built this from an Academy kit in 1/48 scale with many scratch built additions, as well as custom markings. This [...]