Completed in july, 2021, this build was never posted here...
This is the venerable Italeri kit, built almost straight from the box. As usual, I had to make small personalizations đ as open windows and other small touch ups.
Although 2 [...]
Hello again everyone. Most of you will know by now that we recently lost a great person, and fellow Imodeler who was also a well known and accomplished author. Topping this off, Jim was very passionate model builder too.
Jim Sullivan [...]
And yet, another '109 completed. My plan is to finish as many of this kit as possible between when I started last month and the IPMS/USA National Convention. Then I will enter the 5 most "OK" ones in the "Collections" [...]
I assembled a Megami Device Lancer made by Kotobukiya.
This time, the kit was completed with very little modification to its contents.
The skin color was painted with Creos' Lascius color over the parts, utilizing the molding color of the [...]
Here are some photos of my recently completed B-36, representing a plane (01086, âMiss Featherweightâ) based at Carswell during the early 1950âs. This model was built using the Roden 1/144 kit, with a few scratch built details. I [...]
1/144 (Roden) Douglas C-47 Skytrain, "Dakota Squadron" 1981.
I added details in the self-building wheelspaces, motors, antenas and more.
Painted with HATAKA orange laquer.
I even took fresh one to the competition on Saturday.
I was working on this 1/48 dio in tandem with my Getting Some R & R dio. The basis is the June 1944 Red Army crossing of the Dnieper River as part of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Germany's Army Group Center and brought the [...]
All,
It is with the greatest of sadness that I write to inform you that our friend Jim Sullivan has passed.
Jim has been a fixture of my life since 1973, when he became one of the first aerospace photography "heavy hitters" to [...]