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Aurora model kits

M-109 S.P. Howitzer,1/48.

Another attempt at armor, this I've had around I don't know for how long. It's Aurora's last issue[1976] of the M109, where they added the long gun option, I added rudimentary recoil spades in the rear, the kit provided one massive unit [...]

Fleet’s In.

First up Airfix's Rommel converted to USS Richard E Byrd 1/600 scale. Both were of the Charles Adams class DDG, with differences in radar and mast layout. Second- Zvezda's November class nuclear submarine.1/350 scale Third- Revell's [...]

1/48 Testors Nieuport Type 17 C.1

Last winter, I dug my one and only World War One build out of the cabinet, and thought, what the heck, take some pics of the old girl. It has never been photographed before, and it looks pretty rough in many ways. It is the ancient [...]

Seaview

This is an earlier refurb. of Aurora's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's Seaview I changed the nose portals window panes from the original eight.

Orion III Space Shuttle refurb.

This is Aurora's space clipper Orion from 2001 Space Odyssey. it's a1975 issue. Another one I couldn't get rid of. I was originally going to refurb it sitting on top of a Saturn booster, that's how the story in the instructions said it [...]

Aurora/Monogram Sherman

This is Monograms reissue of aurora's 1/48 M-4 Sherman, it came in a combo kit with Monograms 1/48 Fw-190. Being not much of an armor guy I wasn't sure how to detail it, Having lost the decal sheet, I was going to try for the tank from the [...]

Dad’s survivors

These are kits my father built during his retirement before he passed and returned to Mars in 2012, he had a lot more but I couldn't keep them all. Each one has a little elec. motor in the nose, he installed little leads to run it up by an [...]

“Big Fish” – Rotterdam Oude Haven, 1952

Here's an aircraft diorama I worked on for about three months (250+ hours). The overall size makes it difficult to photograph, so apart from a few overviews at middle distance I've included several shots of local areas in the scene. [...]

Lockheed XF-90 Penetration Fighter 1949

The XF-90, a experimental aircraft, was an example of Kelly Johnson's Skunk Works. Designed as a long range escort fighter that could accompany the B-36 intercontinental bomber, changing technology had the jet redesigned as an interceptor. [...]

Aurora/Heller Prestige Series 1/72 Bucker Bu 133 "Jungmeister"

In 1933, the "Jungmeister" (Young Champion) 133 was the flegling Luftwaffe's primary trainer. As an export, it was flying in 20 different countries by 1937. It's still flying, in a modified form, aerobatics at todays airshows. [...]