Last living Flying Tiger gone.
Having been privileged to know five of these guys - three pilots, two groundcrewmen - this is a sad day. They were an amazing and inspiring group.
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Quite a week for "lasts"
“Banana Wars” DH-4B
Airco DH-4B "Liberty"
The DH-4 entered service in WWI with England in 1917 and was built entirely of wood construction. After US entry into the war, several companies began building DH4s in US, with changes including the [...]
Starfury launch bay
This is the old Revel Babylon 5 starfury kit. I wanted to make a nicer stand for it than the kit offering and, anyway, one thing led to another and I ended up with a scratch built launch cradle and bay. The kit has a few modifications [...]
Airfix 1/72 A-4B Skyhawk, VA-15 Valions, USS Intrepid, Tonkin Gulf 1967
Hi all,
In order to keep the illusion going for the kids, I always purchase gifts for my wife and myself to put under the tree with their gifts around Christmas. For myself I usually just get something cheap and so this year I bought the [...]
A ZEBRA STRIPED "DO-27 GRZIMEK" IN 132 SCALE.
I like challenges, so when I spotted this Revell model, I just had to have it to see if I can paint the black stripes on it, so it looked like the real airplane that flew over the "Serengeti" area of Africa. It was used to [...]
Diorama of Steven Spielberg’s 1941 Movie
A Diorama of the Movie, 1941. The diorama was built for the iModeler at the Movies Group Build. It is 1/48 scale. Everything is scratch built except for the Hasegawa P-40E and the cab of the Wespe Models Ford 917, converted to a 1939 Ford [...]
My second super constellation
Take notice of my first photo and you will see that the decals are breaking up while still on the decal sheet. I got out my "MAT's" decal sheet and chose to use the other "USAF" decals, so it was "goodby" to [...]
Tamiya 1/48th Scale F4U-D Corsair build in process
Well I guess a lot of us are building Corsairs so I guess I will share my progress on the kit I am building.
This Tamiya 1/48 scale kit is pretty fun so far. I am adding in lots of details as I go. I will do the folded wing version to make [...]
Soccer War...1/48 Goodyear FG-1D Corsario Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena vs. Vought F4U-5N Corsario Fuerza Aerea Hondurena
So, here are the last two refreshed latinas from 2016.
FAS Corsair: Tamiya kit with Aztec decals, Tamiya and Gunze paints, EZ Line for brake lines, plastic rod for antenna. According to fellow Hyperscaler/Britmodeller Marco, the wheel [...]
My FIST LOCKHEED SUPER CONSETALLATION.
Revell made a very nice 1/144th scale kit of this big 4 engine airplane so I bought two different kits. One kit was made to represent an "USAF-MATS" plane while the other kit represented a commercial airline, namely [...]
