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Nosing around, and a tale of two engines….

Boba is almost ready to see "The Force Awakens", but in the meantime he has a couple pints of "Bad Santa" from my home state of Oregon (Go Ducks, beat TCU in the Alamo Bowl!) and is trying to sort out Kinetics poor nose [...]

*** Ernie Irvan - M&M'sGrand Prix ***

🙂 ... Greetings ... 🙂 : It has been awhile since I last posted any pictures. I believe I posted the decal portion of this build as a WIP by mid September. After three years, I am still adding to it, actually ... I am having a way [...]

1/48 Tamiya Do-335 Heavy

Another one of those awesome Tamiya kits. Finished in markings of one captured by the French by the end of the war. Finished with Tamiya paints and weathered with Mig wash. Cheers Brian

1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider VA-25 Fist of the Fleet

Here is the awesome Tamiya Skyraider. Decals from After burnder Yankee Station Mig Killer. Painted with Tamiya paints and weatherd with Mig wash. Cheers Brian

GPPSD IMPS Brazil annual convention 2015

Friends, here are some photos of the annual convention of modeling that takes place every month of December at São Paulo airbase, plus some medals won by my kits. Once I have, I'll post more photos. Enjoy. By the way, the 1972 Ford [...]

A look behind the curtains

When I'm not building, I'm paying the bills at my chosen vocation as a commercial artist. Featured is the box top art commissioned by the Monogram Model company. This illustration was created back in the 80's and the medium is Designer's [...]

iModeler October Awards

We're terribly late with our October retrospective, well past our usual deadline! This depends on two things - our massive (dare I say appreciated?) coverage from Telford, which kept yours truly thoroughly busy until mid-last week, and [...]

Well It’s only been a year!…………

Since I received this fine model from Martin. This was from one of our contests. So, here is what I have done. Lengthened the rail bed by one third. Scratch built a basic interior. I searched but could not find any interior photos. So [...]

R.I.P. Edgar “Mr. Spitfire” Brooks

Edgar Brooks died of cancer yesterday. He was only diagnosed with it recently, when it was terminal. He went immediately into hospital,. and was gone within days. There's an argument to be made that was a blessing, but I'll argue [...]

Tamiya Swordfish II

George's very nice Swordfish on floats got me thinking about the Swordfish II I did a couple years back. Most of the Swordfish produced during the Second World War were constructed by Blackburn Aviation, including all Swordfish Mks. II and [...]