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Please indulge me. But I really didn’t know where to place this…1941 Dodge truck..

In the walk around section, or the car section? I guess I got excited. Sometimes I spend my lunchtime at the Van Nuys Airport viewing area. When I rolled in and saw this my head exploded. This is a 1941 Dodge But it is not the later Power [...]

iModeler October Awards

With considerable delay due to our recent Telford interlude, it's high time to announce the winners of the iModeler Contest in October, a month that brought us 75 new articles and 1405 users' comments. As per our usual procedure, we are [...]

Underwater target located Captain……but there is more….

What has come over me? I just had to do this Sea Quest DSV model. You know me, it had to have LEDs. and on and on.. Detailed the cockpit with a driver and took some photos just for fun. I also scratch built some arms with grab hands. I [...]

Well since i have having a hard time...

Well since i have having a hard time getting something complete AKA finishing builders block. So i did some major cleaning of the hobby room and decided to start and finish a new kit. So i went with the awesome Hasegawa Bf109G-6. Cheers [...]

Well seeing that I might have gotten your attention...

Here is my Pibber Viet Nam river boat. I just added all of the photos in no particular order. But you can see my build in progress. I always like to add a little bit of a sub story so in the second pic from the last, the Captain said [...]

Oh Boy, a treat for you! Dredging up BoB and BoF oldies.....

Too lazy to build new for the group build but I sure do have subjects that fit. Do need more though, a Stuka is absent from my shelves, and really need a Curtiss French Hawk.

RIP – Jack Broughton

I didn't know it at the time, but in 1955 and 1956, I saw Jack Broughton lead the Thunderbirds - once in F-84Gs and once in F-84Fs. Author of "Thud Ridge" and "Going Downtown" (link)

Bandai 1/72 VF-1S Valkyrie

Robotech (Macross in Japan) was my favorite cartoon to watch when I was a kid. It was different then anything else I had seen before it: GI Joe, Transformers, whatever. For the first time, I saw a cartoon that was actually somewhat [...]

Time to let Santa Claus know what you want!

It's not too late for Santa Claus to be able to put a copy of Fabled Fifteen under your Christmas tree. Not only a book, but a copy of the book signed by Jim Duffy, the last surviving ace to have scored at the Marianas Turkey Shoot and [...]

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 [...]