Monogram model kits
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My second contribution is actually my first subject to start with for the GB. The Monogram/Pro Modeler Douglas B-26B gun nose variant. I was also building the ICM glass nose variant along side this project. The known issue of the [...]
Frank Miller and Fred Offenhauser
In the early 1900s Framk Miller built some of the fastest, most beautiful and innovative open wheel race cars of all time.
In 1913, Miller hired a 25 year old machinist named Fred Offenhauser who learned [...]
This is built with some modifications. The kit is kinda of a dog...Raised panel lines and does NOT fit well at all. I guess it was in the toy realm of its era.
I added some gun barrels from plastic tube stoch and modified the main guns. [...]
Due to the restrictions placed on Germany after WWI, which prohibited, among others, the maintaining of an air force, Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke designed the He 111 in 1934, essentially a bomber presented solely [...]
The NASA Apollo Program led to the successful landing of a human being on the surface of the Moon. Early missions in the series developed tactics and techniques and rehearsed the operational segments that would culminate in 1969 with the [...]
The technological revolution in aircraft design and operation that resulted from the successful development of jet engines brought about more technological change in the five years between the end of World War II and the Korean War than [...]
Monogram's 1990 reissue of their 1966 kit. A straight-out-of-the-box build. I kept it simple, which made this project a pleasure from start to finish. The first car model I've built since I was a kid in the 1960s. One of my favorites back [...]
Monogram 1/138 Super G Constellation
Old Monogram kit I picked up off of ebay. Came complete with all parts and decals
Built this as a kit or a version thereof back in the 70s. Went together pretty well. Low parts counts, no interior. [...]
Noah, my 7 year old nephew paid a few more visits this summer. Lucky for him that a few family birthdays were celebrated at our house, since we have the pool.
When I showed him the old Mattel/Monogram F-14 with its swing-wing action, he [...]
This was the 2nd model I have built for the Jim Sullivan Memorial Group. In each build, I have tried to model a plane in a specific photo in one of Sullivan's books, in this case "Golden Wings". The Kingfisher is one of my [...]