F-100 Super Sabre pictures
A beautiful member of the Century series of fighters. Except for the Thunderbird aircraft, these are all Air Guard airplanes.
The early 1970s is when I started building models, almost always airplanes. The earliest I remember is a Monogram P-39 my dad helped me build.
1940s & 50s fighter planes in 1/48 or 1/32 scale are my favorite model subjects. Occasionally other subjects & scales sneak in.
To help pay for this hobby, I’ve been working as an aircraft mechanic for a large airline for nearly 35 years.
I’m a former Air Guardsman with a short stint in the USAF Reserve. A-7s, F-16s, KC-135s and one particular Convair C-131 were the aircraft I was around during my military service as an “Airframe Repair Specialist “ back in the 80s & 90s.
My Photo collection
I started collecting photographs of aircraft in the 1980s when I was in the military. at the time I had access to hundreds of old Negatives snd also a fully equipped darkroom. Since then I just get them when I happen to come across [...]
Messerschmitt 110
Originally this 1/48 Fujimi Bf- 110 was to have the mouth marking on the nose, but the decal wouldn’t lay down on the compound curved nose properly, so I went to plan B. I found some photographs in a book that showed a similarly painted [...]
Monogram P-47 Thunderbolts
A few years ago I came across some P-47 decal sheets that had some nose art I really liked.
Inspired by my daughter , Erin’s , interest in wolves, I built the one with the wolf first.
Recently I completed “Dallas Blonde”.
Both [...]
Spitfire Mk VIII
Recently I completed an Arii Spitfire Mk VIII. The MkVIII is my favorite
version of the Spitfire and as fate would have it, there was this one waiting in my stash of unbuilt kits. It was the first time I had made extensive use of paper [...]
1/48 Soviet aircraft
Recently I’ve complete two world war 2 era Russian aircraft. A Zvezda PE-2 and a A.M. IL-2.
The Zvezda kit is an awesome kit to build, perhaps one of the best kits on the market.
The Accurate Miniatures kit wasn’t too bad either, [...]
