Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Captain Robert L. Faurot (39th FS, 35th FG, 5th AF) P-38 F-5-LO, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943
Tamiya kit (61120) with some Eduard aftermarket decals, seat belts and instrument panel. Very nice kit to build, typical excellent Tamiya [...]
This was guide idea
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my version, imagined as CAS aircraft with lots of weapons under wings, fuselage full of fuel, wings for lot of lift.
This build started out as the grey Italian Scheme until a friend donated the 100 hours Decals to me, so it had to become that.
It was a challenge to do the black paint in a way that made it look interesting because it still had to be clean [...]
The FW 190D is a favorite model of mine thanks to its purposeful poise and proportions in the 1/48th scale that give the look of the real aircraft. Over the years, nearly two dozen Doras accumulated in my collection. The majority are [...]
A quick project, just less than a month from opening the box, but it did have the bench completely to itself. Biggest challenge was finding the Minigun pod in my huge stash of spare ‘dangly bits’ that I’ve amassed over many year of [...]
1/72 BE-12 Chayka or Seagull in Ukrainian markings. The aircraft made its operational debut in 1968 and served in the ASW and SAR role and is still flying today with a handful still operating. The NATO, cold war code name for this [...]
I will assume you've heard the Lindbergh story before, so I won't entreat you all to that tale again. Instead I will share exploits and anecdotes from this specific project, one of which is finding the proverbial 'needle in a haystack' not [...]
Here is one of my latest completions, it is a 1/72 scale Italeri Lockheed C-130E finished as an L-100-30 of Tepper Aviation.
Since the L-100 is basically a C-130H I had to modify the Italeri C-130E kit to bring it up to that spec.
The [...]
