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