A local Spitfire
Completed in February 2022 as part of our Club’s group build — “Not a British Spitfire” this aircraft has a local connection.
USAAF
All US Army Air Forces subjects.
Love those colors
I found this Microscale decal sheet at a “real” hobby shop right after college and fell in love with the colorful “Tarheel Hal” markings. Applying them to my first quality kit from Hasegawa was a real treat.
Time to replace
From my teen years in the 70s, this kit was brush painted and only national markings and the squadron tail marking added. I did later add exhaust and gun gas stains, albeit poorly.
Burma Banshees
Curtiss P-40N-1 Warhawk, white 60, “Rough Cobb”, 89th FS, 80th FG, Assam, India, 1944 This was for a group build our local club did for the show circuit in 2019. I completed this Hobby Boss P-40M as a P-40N-1 back in 2018. This was a fun little build suggested by a member in our local
Paint it Black
Douglas P-70 Havoc, 39-737/68, Training Unit, USA This was an unplanned completion. A neighbor who is 12 came over to build a model and I offered him a choice of Hobbyboss, Airfix, Revell or Matchbox…the latter three being of the older generation. He chose a Revell Havoc/Boston and and had lots of fun with his