33 years after I started, I finally finished my scratchbuilt 1/700 battleship Texas (BB-35).
I started the model in the spring of 1992, while in the interim between finishing law school and returning to Marshall to start my judicial [...]
This was a long project that I'd wanted to do for a while. I've always loved the late Cold War/early 1990s RAF Tornado GR.1 camouflage schemes; and I'd come across a blurry photo of a 617 Squadron Tonka taking off for ops over the Balkans [...]
Back in the 80s when I got interested in Vietnam era aircraft, I started collecting reference material from books and magazines (because this was before the Internet) One gem of a book was Lou Drendel's "...And Kill MiGs". I [...]
Here is my HMS Dreadnought from Trumpeter. Her biggest claim to fame was when she was commissioned she made all other capital ships obsolete. Her innovations included;
All big gun firepower.
Steam turbine engines made her the fastest [...]
Here is the older, but still very nice 1/48 P-51D kit dressed up as Maj. Robert Moore's "Stinger VII" based out Iwo Jima in August of 1945.
I sourced the decals and the drop tanks from the Eduard "VLR" special edition [...]
Greetings from Viet Nam !
Finally I did it. The long project started in Apr 2021 and completed yesterday 14th Mar 2025.
The kit is Hobby Boss F-14D 1/48, all avionic bays, wing sweep mechanism were scratch build from plastic card and [...]