I’ve enlisted in The 2017 “What if?” group build at The Airfix Tribute Forum— mostly in a desperate attempt to build some enthusiasm for model building. We’ll see if this actually motivates me to build
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Category: Aviation History
USAF History and Some Politics?
Really, really having a hard time right now not going political. Full political. I know I occasionally make some remarks about Germans or something, but most of the time I actually do try to avoid
Read moreGermans Do Everything Wrong
How many of you guys have had the unfortunate experience of being cornered at a plastic kit “social event” (IPMS or something) and being told how great the Luftwaffe was/is? Let’s see some hands. Okay.
Read moreShowtime 100 and the Legacy of Duke Cunningham
I recently sold a (then) hard-to-get set of decals for Duke Cunningham’s “Showtime 100” a famous warplane piloted by one of only two American pilot/aces from the Vietnam War. I had acquired an old Monogram
Read moreBig American Iron: Why So Big?
The image below shows the fuselage from the Meng F-102 next to the fuselage from the Academy B-24. The F-102 was a large aircraft. So were the other “Century Series” fighter planes that were so
Read moreThe Unsettling Story of the Sharon D
Since I started this blog I’ve had more and more difficulty doing my hobby in a “relaxed” manner. I always feel like what I’m doing is “on stage” and I should be doing it, if
Read moreMe-262 Secret Weapon, etc.
Airfix just released a new 1/72 Me-262 and it has exactly the same paint job on it that I went to some trouble and expense to get for my “one of a kind” model. Experten
Read moreWhy Germany Lost WWII
From time, I read a forum thread where various opinions are shared about how Germany could have “won” World War II if they’d only built a jet fighter or an atom bomb or if they
Read moreHow Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…
In 1963, when Revell produced their 1/72 model of the Avro Lancaster, the box cost more to make than the plastic parts. It should have. It looked better. This Jack Leynnwood masterpiece has stood the
Read moreRemove the Splinter from THINE OWN Eye!
A brief entry today about the mysterious “71/02” camouflage that is all the rage and shows up time and time again as the way to paint a “Battle of Britain” Me-109E. I think it’s malarkey.
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