I bought this kit at a club day just as everyone was packing up ,why ?,because I didn't want to go home empty handed and instantly regretted it ,so anyway it came home with me and sat on the shelf of hasty decisions for a while while I [...]
This build was made for a collector in germany. He likes the F-4 very much, as he was living near an airfield base in earlier times. He wants me to build exactly this aircraft before it has gone to a museum-hangar. It was a big challenge, [...]
This was a fun project despite the glitches in the instructions. It took longer to complete than I had planned, but I had the opportunity to use this project to try out a variety of tools and techniques. All I can suggest with this project [...]
No particular story to go with this one. Xtradecals 1/32 Hurricane Part 1 sheet used to do an airplane of 213 "Hornet" Squadron in the Western Desert, spring 1942, mostly chosen because I liked the hornet insignia on the [...]
Fujimi 1/72 Intruder tanker, used kit decals for VA-75, a sometime stablemate of VF-31, on Saratoga with CVW-3.
It needed a lot of filler around the intakes. Two glaring mistakes I made was the off kiltered
refueling probe.and the loose [...]
This my 1/72 Revell [Italeri]? F4U-5, using kit decals, rattlecan Nav.sea blue. I recently read that the nose is too short for the dash 5?
I used the terrific 1:48 scale Tamiya kit to build "White 23", the F4F-4 that Lt. Cdr. John Thatch flew on June 4, 1942 during the battle of Midway. Thatch flew this plane, BuNo 5093, when he shot down three Zeros in one of the [...]
Flown by Ft Lt John Bailey.
I had all kinds of issues deciding what colours would be applicable. Same old story, ask 100 historians and get 110 different answers. I settled on Olive drab over a local mixture of dark green/foilage which [...]