Greenshirt Modeler

Welcome to my world of scale modeling. While this is my first post on my new blog, I do have an older blogger-based site that will slowly migrate here as I learn more about Word Press. I began my scale modeling journey in 1965 and I’ve been building steadily ever since.

An Hour A Day

I try to spend 1 hour each day at my bench. I’ve been quite good at that for the last 15 years, essentially since I was able to finally get a home with a basement and not move every 2-4 years. That hour can be a multitude of things and is not always sticking plastic bits together or slapping paint on the plastic. Occasionally it’s just looking at my stash of kits and dreaming of how nice that kit will look when it’s finished. the hour can also be me searching furiously on the internet for some detail that will make the model perfect. What I do during that hour is for me to choose and as long as I do it, I’m happy.

My Background

I spent 33 years in the US Navy.  I got a commission and worked as an Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officer (aka Greenshirt).  I spent my first 20 years focused on keeping naval aircraft flying from aircraft carriers, deploying on 3 different carries for a total of 9 deployments and 12 years at sea. During those years I also got a Masters of Science in Information Technology.  So for the remaining 10 years, and most of my shore duty, my focus was on some sort of IT as it related to Naval Aviation, culminating in enterprise-wide (all Navy-Marine Corps) solutions regardless of platform.

My focus

I prefer to work in 72nd scale. I also prefer aircraft. I am trying to focus on Naval Aviation — US, UK, France, Japan, and any other country that had an aircraft carrier or even float planes and flying boats. I like the classic lines of propellor aircraft the early jets. I generally won’t build something that is modern, but I’m not hard and fast on that rule.

I am a profoundly average modeler

Please join me on this ongoing journey as I share things I’ve learned, builds I complete, aircraft I’m interested in, and products I like. I hope you’ll find something of use that will either inspire you or help you make a better scale model in the future, even if all you do is learn from my mistakes.