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Retired transit worker from NYCT. ,phormer phantom phixer f4j, low tech,low budget modeler. mostly a/c.
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.
This is Hasegawa's S-2 Tracker converted to a C-1A Trader COD[ carrier onboard delivery]. I left out all the sonar gear, plugged sonar buoy holes in the back of the nacelles and kit bashed the decals, making it of course the one assigned [...]
Airfix's 737-200 done in the livery of Piedmont airlines. affectionately known to us who frequently flew it, going home on leave, as Tree top airlines. I used ATP decals, the kit was old enough that the stand was included.
Here is an Airfix DC-9 done up as a generic Navy C-9B, utilized by the navy's logistical squadrons, On active duty me and my squadron mates racked up some frequent flyer miles on these birds going on detachments or catching the ship for [...]
Here are some simple builds from a simple modeler . I built these intending to show aircraft with Sabre like lines.First off is Hasegawa's Fuji T-1A JSDAF trainer, Japan's first aircraft built after WW 2, I can't tell you how long this [...]
This my first and last resin kit, I started this kit about ten years ago, After trimming the fuselage halves and finding how brittle this stuff is and a permanent warp in the fuselage, I shelved it. Since getting more active in modeling, I [...]
A recent build of the ancient Monogram 1/72 F8F, This ones a bit tricky to build, you have to slide the wing and horizontals into the halves of the fuselage, Added some old microscale decals of VF-31 and you get the start of a family tree.
This is Italeri's 1/72 F-104A done up as a ADC interceptor, going after UFO's. in the 1960's.
Aside from the obvious fiction. it's a great little kit to build.
