Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
P-40's being my fave airplane, the 49th being my fave group, a perfect combo. I always had large interest in the 49th's activities, which covered a lot of War and a lot of square miles. They flew the P-40 in various marks for a long time [...]
Here is another "desk top" styled gift for a friend who crewed on these in the U.S. Navy in the late 1940's.
1/48 Monogram PBY-5(A) Catalina.
This Photos are of my recent build , i enjoyed this build.
Kit; Kinetics 1/32
Resin; Avionix cockpit
Paints ; Alclad 4 different shades
Decals; Superscale (old) I used the stars, instead of the plane kill marks
Hope you enjoy Kelly.
I know this isn't everyone's style, but I like to build models that look like desktop displays.
This is a gift for a friend.
Standard Monogram 1/48th P-51D. Rattle can paint. NMF is just cheapo silver
I hope you like...
I started the Airfix 1/72 Hawk 81A-2 about the time it hit the U.S. shores (December 2012!), planning to build an RCAF Tomahawk. I had it all together by mid-month... and then it sat... and sat. AMS got the better of me and I couldn't [...]
Here's the latest project to cross the finish line - the 1970's original issue 1/32nd scale Spitfire MkI which has been used as the base kit to produce a Spitfire PRXIX using Grey Matter's conversion set.
I chose the original Revell kit [...]
This was made from the outstanding Eduard kit, the gold standard for Mig-21s. The MT was an export version of the Soviet SMT. A small batch of 15 were built in 1971, but no customers were found. The aircraft were apparently put to use [...]
A commission build for a NFO buddy of mine at work. Trumpeter kit with Cutting Edge resin NACES seats and Furballs excellent stickers other than that OOB. Even added a little artistic license by putting my name on the hose wheel [...]
VF-9 was formed in the summer of 1942 to become the fighter squadron of the air group that would be assigned to the USS Essex (CV-9) then nearing construction completion. In September 1942, VF-9 was ordered aboard USS Ranger (CV-4) as a [...]
