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Glencoe 1/32 XV-1 Convertiplane

The origins of the unconventional XV-1 can be traced back in the early 50s, when aviation designers tried to figure out ways to increase the contemporary helicopters’ airspeeds. By that time, the Air Force collaborated with the Army, in [...]

Rivets? I'll give you rivets.

So found a local bargain place with some model kits. So snagged the Atlantis repop of the box scale B-26 Invader. Talk about Brooklyn Bridge scale rivets. We got it so good nowadays. What amazed me was the framing in the clear parts were [...]

1/24 Monogram "Orange Hauler"

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 [...]

Lockheed L-1049 Super G Constellation

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. [...]

Ford Tri-motor

Looking through some pics of my old builds from the Jurassic period, here's an oldie. Revell's box scale (about 1:77) a friend got at a garage sale. Someone had already started building it, got some paint on parts still attached to the [...]

Higher and higher

Interwar aviation wasn't just biplanes and silver wings. A lot of valuable research took place under the guise of competition. Aviation was new; it was a prestige activity and the boost to national morale and pride of an aviation success [...]

Jo-Han 1/72 P-47D Thunderbolt

Jo-Han 1/72 P-47D Thunderbolt Kit no. A-102 (Released: 1973 New tool) This was my second time building this kit and I enjoyed the build when I first built it back in 1973 and enjoyed it more on this build. It is a clean kit with very [...]

JU 87 - G takes me down memory lane

I saw this old, classic kit and decided to give it a try. Glad I did, but not for the reasons I expected. This is my first post mainly because I have only picked up modeling again after a many decade absence and I don’t this k my [...]

The Grumman J2F2 Duck amphibian 1/54 scale

1/54 scale. Glenco kit #04101 originally issued as the ITC kit #3727-98 in 1958. One of the fledgling Grumman Aircraft Company's first successful military contract utility aircraft designs this model is completed as assigned to the U.S. [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo

Here is my completed entry for the Jim Sullivan Memorial Build. This is Tamiya's 1974 boxing of their first release of the Brewster Buffalo, Kit No. 61019. There are 3 versions that can be made, RAF, Dutch and USN. This is a nice kit, all [...]