Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
When we planned on the Korean War GB, it was an opportunity to buildsome aircraft and ground equipment other than the well known F-86 Sabre, MiG-15's, Panthers and Sherman tanks. The Korean War made use of what was used in WWII, on both [...]
First Lieutenant Jim Thompson's F-86F "the Huff" is famous for being famously photographed with the most astounding nose art of any USAF fighter in Korea. Thompson, a wingman in the 39th FIS of the 51st FIW, shot down a PLAAF [...]
Here's my latest build from Dora Wings in 1:48.
The C.710 were a series of light fighter aircraft developed by Caudron for the French Air Force prior to WWII, the CR.714 was the end result and saw limited production It was of all-wood [...]
Since there wasn't a decent injection molded kit of this aircraft in 1/72 I decide to build the PJ Productions resin kit [Belgium Model company] (link)
This is a very nice kit and renders into a very accurate representation of the [...]
So, here´s my dad´s fifth and last yellow winged chubby naval fighter.
Hobby Boss kit mostly oob, added seatbelts, antenna wire with EZ Line, fuselage code decals were to large and upper wing numbers way too small, used some decals from [...]
One of Revell's Luftwaffe giants. Unlike Revell's previous Ju-88A-1, the A-4 with the longer wing span and overall more familiar features makes a better impression. However, the building process is marred by the crude parts resulting with [...]
The Hawker Hector was an interim type and the last of the Hart family. The previous army cooperation Hart - the Audax was getting a bit long in the tooth and a new type was needed. With Hind production taking up the available Kestrel [...]
For an aircraft with such a bad reputation, it was flown by several Air Forces. The VVS could not get enough of the Kobra, Over 4500 P-39s were supplied to the Soviets. Australia received a few and both the Free French and Italian [...]
Ernie D. Latham, Bob Trottier, and Roger Dale Weatherbee in Dayton, OH at the USAF Museum. Three fighter pilots of the 49th, each with 50 missions in combat. Taken in the mid-90s.
My father in 1944 after a mission for the 49FS Hangmen, standing in front of Hangman's Hangout the O-Club. The second picture was taken by an old B-24 buddy. It shows my Dad buzzing the bomber outfit on his first P-38 flight.
