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

F/A-18E Superhornet, VFA-31, Final Felix, Italeri 1/72.

This is the last of post WW 2 Felix rides, I hadn't really planned on doing it,not being a fan of the F/A-18, but when I saw the Two Bob decal sheet I changed my mind, I opted for the Italeri kit, being the cheapest that I could find, [...]

Marty returns

A while back I posted photos of a mutt who appeared on our flight line. We had him a few days until base security took him. he was so docile that we were able dress and pose him around the aircraft. I modified the sled dogs from the Ford [...]

F-51D, 12th FBS, 18thFBG, Korea 1952Forgotten war Group Build,1/72 Airfix

Another Airfix 1/72 gem of a kit. The fit is great, as are the decals. I did the Korean war selection kit decals. Which must have been a popular plane as Tamiya's and Italeri's 1/72 also offers the same bird in their 1/72 kits. As great [...]

Ford Trimotor, 1/77 Monogram

One of Monograms early box scale kits, the copy right date says 1956. Though sparse in detail, The corrugated skin detail is pretty cool. Released several times over the years,this is the 1983 Heritage Edition. I think that there was one [...]

Discover XD-1, moebius 1/350.

More reasonably priced then their earlier 1/144 release of the exploration ship from 2001 a space odyssey. The smaller scale though taxed my manual dexterity. We are nowhere near the technology as projected in the movie, reality vs Sci-fi [...]

1952 Hudson,1/24 Moebius, " my first ride"

Although I consciously don't remember riding in this, it was the car my father had in the first couple of years of my existence. Not being able to afford new cars until his retirement, he would rely on used cars, maintaining them best he [...]

Martian War Machine, 1953. 1/48 Pegasus, imodeler at the movies.

This is Pegasus's Martian War Machine 1/48, from the 1953 movie War of the Worlds. A very simple kit to build, I included a bit of a diorama also. If I had the skill set would have wired the machined. David Leigh-Smith started this group [...]

USS Kirk DE/FF 1087,1/700 AFV.

One of 46 Knox class destroyer escort/ fast frigate. The Kirk was commissioned in the early seventies and later transferred to Taiwan in the mid nineties. It took part in the evacuation of South Vietnamese refugees in 1975. I picked this [...]

F6F -5N Hellcat over Brooklyn.1/72 Eduard

This is a Eduards over tree kit, no decals no PE, perfect, I didn't need the kit decals and I don't do PE to well. The markings are of a F6F-5N of the Navy Reserve stationed at NAS Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn NY. 1949. There is a bit [...]

A-7 Nuclear bomber

www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nm09b Thank goodness they never used this.