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Retired transit worker from NYCT. ,phormer phantom phixer f4j, low tech,low budget modeler. mostly a/c.
Not knowing what was in the Kitech kit ,it was supposed to have reactive armor per the USMC [ it did not] it also was a motorized kit, which made the running gear less accurate than the snaptite kits. I decided to try to make it represent [...]
I was trying to revive this old kit but fell short, I didn't get the colors right . The kit represents the prototype with squared off wing tips, of which I rounded off. I used super scale decals of the 49th FIS out of Langley AFB. I think [...]
Airfix's venerable Me 262 in US Navy scheme, did a few year's back.
Revells' 727 done in the livery of Southern Air Transport airline as a 727C cargo version. They supposedly did air cargo drops out the rear air stairs. I believe they are out of business now, but I do remember seeing their C-130s back in [...]
The ultimate Phantom, a Salty sea dog? and a faded April fools day flight schedule.
This is the latest and greatest hi- tech model of the F-4, a rivet counter's dream,it's very accurate, goes together easily, requiring no filling of seams, minimum flash, instruction's are easy to follow and an excellent decal sheet. [...]
This might be of interest to all. I found this on you tube while researching my water wings build. The film was made by the grandfather of the person who posted it on you tube,Robert W Martens, although my father did retire from the [...]
What an airliner used to look like, Saved from the shelf of doom, this actually started out as a Revell E-3A AWAC from a 1980's kit, I had ideas of converting it to a tanker, this was before the current Minicraft and Roden kits. Its [...]
Yes the navy will put floats on anything that flies. Both the floats and F-4 are from older builds, we couldn't do a what if for the group so...A little ha ha.
