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Retired transit worker from NYCT. ,phormer phantom phixer f4j, low tech,low budget modeler. mostly a/c.

'Play magic fingers, Happy New year to all !!'

Just a random shot that I had taken around the holidays on board Nimitz,'76/'77, in Naples harbor. I want to wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year ! Love this site, it's like therapy for me.

BP Defiant 151 Squadron,FEB 1941, Airfix 1/72 new tool, 100yrs RAF.

What a gem of a kit! Built straight out of the box, Modelmasters flat black, with a coat of clear gloss. Using the decals of 151 Squadron, RAF Wittering , Cambrigdeshire, England, Feb. 1941. I don't think it's an ugly design at all, they [...]

Up Periscope

I'd like to share with you, some thing that I forgot about, a wooden model of a submarine that my Dad made for me in the before time[around 1965] I think he got the idea from a cover of the book 'Up Periscope!' Some thing I just could [...]

Mercury and Gemini Space capsules 1/48 Revell, reissue

This a 2012 selected subjects program reissue of a kit originally issued in 1964 of, which I built as a spaced out kid, This time I wanted to do it 'right'. Granted, I don't recall how the original kit was. but Revell should be ashamed of [...]

Beechcraft JRB-4 US Navy, 1/72 Hobbycraft.

This is my take on a Navy transport version of the Beech 18. A simple kit from Hobbycraft, the last of my Dad's old stash. spare stars and bars, the rest home made decals.

FG.1[F-4K] 892 NAS,HMS Ark Royal,1974-75, Airfix 1/72.

After enjoying building Airfix's 1/72 DB Defiant, I was all set to tackle the F-4K. either my skill set is diminishing or maybe I should give it up. This build was a struggle for me almost all the way. It is a well engineered kit, great [...]

JRB Willow Grove PA. transient line, plus.More photos from the before time.

This some of the fun that could show up at the transient line at my last Navy reserve location. Then the Saratoga after her decommissioning in the mid nineties,The last,a Humvee and me.

More from the scrap book, NATO

Something between builds. Just a few shots of NATO forces that I took in my youth while in the Navy, Three ships from the Netherlands, Overijssel, Deruyter, and Everstan, a RN Sea King, HMS Hermes at Naval Station Mayport Fla. I believe [...]

National Naval Aviatin Museum, Pensacola Fla, Pt 2. Hangar Bay One,plus

Basically shots of more modern aircraft, that weren't in the main section. The actual name plate off the now scrapped Forrestal, and the memorial plaque honoring those that perished in the fire off Vietnam, it used to hang in the hangar [...]

National Naval Aviation Museum,Pensacola Fla. Part one, Flightline Ramp

Checked off an item from my bucket list, last weekend. Limited photos of the outside ramp, Jaime Carreon covered the other areas recently. One note, the C-130 is supposed to be the one that flew onto and of the Forrestal in the early [...]