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Retired transit worker from NYCT. ,phormer phantom phixer f4j, low tech,low budget modeler. mostly a/c.
The kit started out as a 1/72 A-4E/F Aggressor by scale craft/esci. the kit only supplies the avionic hump on top of the fuselage, so I had use filler for the tail fillet. No stores were provided so the wing tanks came from spares, the [...]
First up the ancient Frog P-51A, 'Jackie', India 1944 pilot J.J. England
Second, equally ancient Monogram P-51B, white 267,China 1945,pilot Tex Hill
I guess all the "Ds" were going to Europe then, I used superscale decal sheet [...]
This is Monograms 1/72 F-4J, of VF-31 in 1976. I used aeromaster , homemade, and spare decals to represent the one I was assigned as plane captain . Standard load of missiles,and a blivet [used to carry the aircrew's luggage on cross [...]
Fujimi 1/72 Intruder tanker, used kit decals for VA-75, a sometime stablemate of VF-31, on Saratoga with CVW-3.
It needed a lot of filler around the intakes. Two glaring mistakes I made was the off kiltered
refueling probe.and the loose [...]
This my 1/72 Revell [Italeri]? F4U-5, using kit decals, rattlecan Nav.sea blue. I recently read that the nose is too short for the dash 5?
The first F-8 is Fujimi's old 1/70 F-8D,converted to a 'B', Leaving off the fuselage strakes, and using VF-32 decals from micro scale CAG-3 sheet, Had to sand off a ton of rivets
The second is amt/ertl 1/72 F-8H in kit decals,All in all I [...]
Jumping on the Demon bandwagon, this is my old build of Emhars F-3H Demon, I tried thinning the thick plastic by sanding it. I also used the kits decals of VF-31 off the Saratoga in the early sixties, part of Air Wing 3, The Demon was [...]
This is the old 1/7? scale Fujimi kit. Originally I finished it off as a bird from VA-35 off the USS Saratoga in the late fifties, but it fell off the shelf, tail cracking, destroying the decal,[ hazard of building old brittle kits]. [...]
This is an earlier refurb. of Aurora's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's Seaview I changed the nose portals window panes from the original eight.
This is Aurora's space clipper Orion from 2001 Space Odyssey. it's a1975 issue. Another one I couldn't get rid of. I was originally going to refurb it sitting on top of a Saturn booster, that's how the story in the instructions said it [...]
