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Have been a member here for 10 years. Enjoy building scale model aircraft and armour. My focus is world war 2 but I intend to begin building jet aircraft models in 2022. I created my own website to show my work.

Web Site:
http://ghmicro.wix.com/twis-first-cut

F-15E Strike Eagle

Revell's 1/48 F-15E Strike Eagle in the markings of the 494th EFS (Black Panthers) as of October 2023 that was committed to Operations against ISIS in Syria and Iraq known and Operation Inherent Resolve.

Spitfire MK.Vc Royal Australian Airforce.

Eduard's 1/48 Spitfire Vc. in the markings of Clive "Killer" Caldwell flying out of Northern Australia. Caldwell was the RAAF's leading Ace of WW2 and flew a number of Spitfire variants. This is one of his Vc's with Serial BS295.

P-38F "The Sad Sack" Tamiya's 1/48 P-38

Here's my latest aircraft model. Tamiya's P-38F in the markings of "The Sad Sack" The Sad Sack was flown by leading scorers of the U.S. Army Airforce's 82nd FG, including Maj. Robert Kirtley (4/2/2), Maj. Ernest 'Hawk' Osher [...]

Eduard/Hasegawa 1:72 B-25J Medium Bomber

Hi Guys, I just finished this (more or less) B-25J I did for a group a build. This North American B-25J was named Angel of Mercy and flew with the 412th Bombing Squadron, 310th Bomb Group 12th U.S. Airforce out of Corsica, France in [...]

Tamiya’s P-51B in the livery of Don S. Gentile’s “Shangri-La”. USAAF 4th Fighter Group early 1944.

My completed P-51B Shangri -La. I enjoyed this build which was mostly out of the box with the exception of the main landing gear wheels which are from Hussar. I also used the Lifelike Decals set for this aircraft. The build log can be [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 P-47D-25 "Coffey's Pot"

Here's my Hasegawa P-47D-25 "Coffey's Pot" aircraft flown by Lt. Col Robert Coffey with the 365th Fighter Group, "The Hell Hawks" during D-Day Operations over Normandy. The kit has some inaccuracies as stated by Tom [...]

Hawker Typhoon (Late) 439 RCAF Squadron

Here's my 1/48 scale Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon IB I did a few years back. I started a build log here but was never able to post some completed pictures. This Typhoon served with 439 Squadron RCAF near the end of the war in Europe. It has [...]

Tokyo Defender: Hasegawa 1/32 Ki-61 Hien

HI Folks, Haven't been here in quite a while but wanted to share some builds I completed and posted on other sites. Here is my 1/.32 Ki-61 Hien built as Major Teruhiko Kobayashi's aircraft that he flew with the 244th Sentai famously [...]

Battle of the Bulge M4A3E8 Sherman U.S. 4th Armoured Division Bastogne.

Hi Guys, Here's a vignette of my M4A3E8 Sherman that I built using Tasca's excellent Sherman kit. I wanted to model a picture of an "E8" during the battle of the bulge and I found a picture of one that was taken just outside [...]

F4U-1A Corsair VF-17 “Jolly Rogers”

This is my Tamiya 1/48 Scale F4U-1A corsair painted in the markings of Lt. JG. Danny Cunningham during his first tour with VF-17 flying out of Ondongo Airfield in the South West Pacific. Hope you like it. David.