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1/24 RealSpace Pioneer 10

NASA’s Pioneer 10 was the first space probe to study the outer planets. Launched in 1972, it traversed the asteroid belt and made its closest approach to Jupiter nearly two years later, at a distance of 82K miles. It beamed back this [...]

Joseph Heller at war

(link) This 6min 38sec clip is most likely out-take footage that was going to be used in a documentary, "Training For Combat" which was the "boondoggle" that Joseph Heller took part in in 1944 - there is a few moments [...]

Betty Jo

On June 21, 1957, my dad Andrew Balazi, and NACA test pilot Joseph Algranti, flew F82B Betty Jo from NACA Cleveland, Ohio to the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

Incom T-65B X-Wing Starfighter

My daughter got me this beauty for Christmas and I dove right in. It is the Bandai 1/72 "X-Wing Starfighter" boxing of the X-wing as seen in Episode IV, the first movie and to me still the best. If like me you have never built [...]

IAR-80C

Hobbyboss 1/48. Should have been a weekend built which took a while searching for decals. In the end I used the kit decals.

Something completely different: a (model building) year in three minutes!

(link) With this three-minute video, I would like to present to you an idea of how I document my modelling activities of a year. Let's start 2023!

Lockeed T-33A Shooting Star

ACADEMY 1/48 out of box build. Alclad and MRP paints Kit decals

1/350 TBF-1 Avenger

build log (link)

Pegasus 1/48 Hawker Hurricane

I love this kit! It's a snap fit but fits great and is very robust, the interior is pretty good and it's half the price of any other kit. The plastic is textured but on a matt finish it doesn't show, downside, landing lights are just [...]

2022 Builds

For me, scale modeling in 2022 had some highs and lows, but mostly highs. It was one of my most productive years—13 kits (15 if you count some figures thrown in). I finished more kits in 2020 by doing a lot of no-frills Covid shutdown [...]