Custom build to suit models

[Second Air Force]

Here are a few snaps of some of the other MOH aircraft I was privileged to build for the Dallas IPMS Nats. some years ago:

Col. John R. Kane's Hail Columbia:


Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker and Maj. John L. Jerstad's He!!s Wench:


And as a small change of pace I got to build Lt. (Jg) William E. Hall's SBD-3 from the Battle of the Coral Sea:


As a bonus, I was fortunate to meet Lt. Col. Jay Zeamer at the contest, and had a nice visit with him. One of the aircraft the team built for the contest was the B-17 that he and 2nd Lt. Joseph Sarnoski earned the MOH in. Terry (the builder) presented the model to Col. Zeamer after the contest.

Scott

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[Cripes A Mighty]

......drool. VERY NICE WORK!!!!!! Love the first 24.

[kalamazookid]

Second Air Force,

VERY nice B-24 models. What scale are those?

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for the compliments . I used to build contest models, mostly Nascar stuff from the early years to the mid-nineties. I started with building everything I could get the folks to buy me as a lad,(which wasn't a lot), then went to aircraft, then the car thing, and now I'm back to warbirds. I don't have time to do much more than fiddle with them, but it is still a very relaxing thing to do.

The B-24s are all Minicraft/Academy 1/72nd scale, and the SBD is the 1/72nd scale Hasegawa kit. I used to work only in 1/48th, but finally ran out of space for all the B-17s and B-29s I built. After I gave them all away I decided to go to the smaller scale for a while.

Scott

[Canso42]

Scott, I had a similar sequence of type interest. I started on aircraft as soon as I could be trusted with a tube of glue, tanks and battleships for a bit, back to planes, into cars as a teenager and got away from it as a young adult.
Three years ago I was given a 1/72 Corsair kit for my birthday and havent built very many since but the interest is re awakened.

Doug

[Cripes A Mighty]

Thats funny I am the same as you guys. I have 5000+ die cast model cars that were my father's. I grew up with cars so naturally thats where I started as well.

Is it just me or or Cars more difficult? I never could seem to build those as well as warbirds.

As far as space: I gave all my 1/48s away too. Only real BIG model I have is the 1/72 B-36.

[Second Air Force]

Cripes,

I went to LOTS of contests, both IPMS type and model cars only, and I have always felt that the most talented modelers were those who mastered the human figures. It's funny that we all fall into our own little niches we're comfortable with, and everyone has their own perception of what constitutes a great model. Some of the figure builders just marveled at a well built Mustang, warship, or street rod and talked about how hard it had to be to paint, detail, etc., but I still think that making a face look real is probably more a form of true art than what I managed to bang together. I enjoy studying all forms of scale models, and appreciate anyone who posts photos of their handiwork on WIX.

I just noticed the poster on the wall behind your B-36--I built a FICON GRB-36D and RF-84K combination a number of years ago and hung it in our TV room. One evening an older gentleman who lived down the road stopped by, saw the '36 hanging there and said "Hey, that's my airplane!" Turns out that he was a flight engineer on #695 during the FICON program, and had many stories to tell about his time with that particular Peacemaker, including ferrying her to Davis Monthan for scrapping.

Scott

[Cripes A Mighty]

wow now thats when you officially say "Its a small world".

I didnt even think of human figurines......yeah that has to take the cake as hardest thing to model.

[Django]

Great models everyone! Next time I am back home at my folks house, I will try to take a pic of the model graveyard in the basement. It's sad.

Check this guy's figure models out. Unreal...

http://weylent.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for the link, Django!

Those figures are exactly what I was talking about earlier. That is ART. Doing what I do pales by comparison.

Amazing work.

[Cripes A Mighty]

Oh my...............

[Elroy13]

Thats some great work guys!

[Canso42]

Cripes, Thats a cool poster behind your Peacemaker. Post us a view of that howbout it? Is you avatar photo taken in a B-36 by chance? The greenhouse framing kinda looks like it.
Doug.

[Cripes A Mighty]

Thanks, sure I will have to find it. That is actually at my old house, and I have it in a tube somewhere. Got it out of air and space some years back. Just took it up to kinkos and had them laminate it.

As far as the avitar goes.....nope no B36 Its from the movie Catch 22 so its from a B25. Ive been in the PIMA 36 when it was here in Ft. Worth at General Dynamics once and I wish I had some pics of it

Will go find the poster.....it might be tomorrow before I find it though.

[Canso42]

Cripes, Which Catch-22 B-25? My stepmom's late husband flew 'Laden Maiden' for a couple of years before it was acquired by the movie production company.
Doug