Calling this one as, DONE! This is number six for the year. Found this kit at a show and it is the original release that came with the PE fret.
I had built this same kit many years ago, 2009 maybe? For a long time it sat on display in [...]
Here´s my dad´s next finished project. Hobbycraft´s RT-33A, released in 1992 and still the only 1/48 kit of this aircraft. As usual with HC kits, it lacks detail, especially in the cockpit. Only added Eduard PE seatbels, lights on spine [...]
Built this over the summer. The good 1:48 Airfix Meteor kit with which only issue I had was attaching the nose neatly. Like the yellow training/tug schemes so built with target tug stripes and after market decals. Had fun with the build, [...]
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 [...]