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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
