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Model builder, Bass player. Captain KAOS from the Doctor Demento radio program. I love to build almost anything in plastic. Love scratch building. On30 railroad geek. Modifying everything I build. Sharing ideas of the hobby, and seeing what others have made magnificent.
Oh, and Chicks dig me! (from the movie Stripes)

The worst box art ever produced!!! This got my attention...Long story, lots of pictures....

OK here is the story. I was in Pegasus hobby shop. A mecca here in Southern California. And I was looking at all the best of the best models available in the world and I came upon this,(second photo). It was the most gosh ugly morphed out [...]

1/24 Revell / Monogram Scarab, Done, Finito, Finished.

I built this years ago and it was a glue bomb. I wanted to go back and give her another try. There is still a few woogies here and there, but I am happy with the results. The only modification I made was to add a top half of a engine under [...]

A Very large container was delivered to the factory today! Very large!…….

Thank you Martin, I never expected this much fun. And thank everyone for all of your nice comments. Woo Hoo! This kit is going to be a fun one. This is the kit I chose from Martins contest. The Commandant is reviewing the instructions. [...]

The Worlds (almost) smallest model. See if you can see it on the first picture….

I'm putting this dio together for a friend. It is a precast base and stone road. I have added a war damaged wall to the background. But where is the model?, see the last image. Most of the time when I do a diorama for someone else I will [...]

When you build tanks, you have to do at least one of these….

On a small diorama. A direct hit to the engine. Everyone made it out and set new records for the fifty yard dash.. Inside the engine compartment a lot of tin foil and some wire. I didn't have to follow any specific protocol as it was blown [...]

Honey I shrunk the model!!!

OK it's the old giant toy quarter trick. But I have to say I have never seen it done. In the second photo the real quarter is on the left. Sorry about the photos but it is hard to hold still when you are laughing. Who says you can't have [...]

So!.... how about a bit of a teaser?..........

this is a repop of the Monogram 1/24 scale Scarab rear engine race car. I built this same model years ago, and I built a glue bomb. Now I want to set the record right. More to come... California Steve.

Somewhere in the Pacific..........

There is this isolated cove where the smaller boats and landing craft traded supplies and what ever contraband they could get there hand on. Mostly fruit, beer , and movies. Commander McHale and his crew have been known to be regulars. [...]

Same Citroen Cabriolet different dioramas, 1/35 scale Tamiya

I was having some trouble loading up some photos but I think you get the idea. This was a fun project. I did a little homework on the Citroen and discovered they had some cabriolets. This was a bit of surgery to carefully remove the roof [...]

Chevy 15CWT.. Now this is how I would have done it..

Well it seems we are back at the factory again. The order was in for a all terrain, sand/mud vehicle that could transport between ten troops or a crew of five plus a heavy load of cargo, using the existing trucks we had at hand. This is [...]