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What's New Archive: 11/2009: A new A6M5A kit from Tamiya is built up and featured in Feb 2009 issue of SAM - coming up next month. Finally, Part 1 of Chinese American Ace Arthur Chin is posted, this is his Hawk II
10/2009: Part 2 of Chinese American Ace Arthur Chin is posted, this is his Gloster Gladiator
The NJ Aviation
Hall of Fame Museum in Teterboro NJ hosts an annual expo with
vintage cars and aircraft in flying condition. This year
includes an A10 formation fly-by and a B-17.
Pictures
from the
Teterboro Wings and Wheels Expo 2009
9/2009: For the AFV enthusiasts, 94 Pictures from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Ordnance Museum. 8/2009: 80 Pictures from the New England Air Museum in Connecticut posted 7/2009: Curtiss Hawk II and Gloster Gladiator of the Chinese Air Force as flew by Chinese American Capt. Arthur Chin, featured in the Nov 2008 issue of Scaled Aircraft Modelling - pages coming soon. 4/2009: Selected pictures from NJ IPMS annual Mosquitocon show 3/2009: The website face lift is almost done. Meanwhile, I've posted a way over due update. So here's the new Accurate Miniature's Vindicator page, and 3 armor, the Kurogane, Sherman M4, and Italeri's Autoblinda 41
8/5/2008: The website face lift is still ongoing, but the Eduard's bf110E build page is now uploaded. This is an expanded version (more pictures) of the version that appeared in the Jan 2008 issue of Scaled Aircraft Modelling. 7/16/2008: The website is getting a facelift, so it will be a mixture of old and new for a bit. For those of you interested, I'm switching from Adobe Golive 6 to Microsoft Expression Web 2 as my tool for website creation. As such, I'm revamping the underlying technology by eliminating frames, tables, and layers as much as possible. Instead I'm switching over to CSS and templates. So please bear with me as I migrate the different sections thoughout the summer. 7/7/2008: Horten Ho229A Flying Wing page is up. This model was featured in the Dec 2007 Issue of Scaled Aircraft Modeler 6/20/2008: Yes, still WAY behind in updating the website. However, I've actually finished an Eduard 110-E for and was published in the Jan issue of Scaled Aircraft Modeling (SAM). Likewise, the HO2209 was published in the Dec 2007 issue of SAM. I've since finished the Accurate Miniature Vindicator, Roden Gladiator, and am currently working on Classic Airframes Hawk II. They are all going to appear in article form for SAM. The Shindenkai aircraft is going to be in a future issue Finescale Modeler. 4/8/2008: Yes, I'm WAY behind in updating the website - been too busy building instead. But I do have one update, pictures from NJIPMS 2008 Mosquitocon show. Hey, I even won 3rd place for 1/48th Jets for the Ho 229 Flying Wing. I actually completed 5 models since the last update and had 2 of them featured in the UK magazine Scaled Aircraft Modeller - including the Ho 229. I will publish pictures soon.
4/11/2007: Hasegawas's Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai 'Skeleton' edition built as a cutaway. The Dragon kit Horten Ho229A Flying Wing is also finished. 1/09/2007: Added photos from Dallas Frontiers of Flight Museum. Click Here 11/14/2006: Intrepid Air & Space Musuem (the weekend before it closed for a 2 yeaer long renovation) in NYC added - 76 images. Click Here 4/22/2006: Cavanuagh Museum of Flight in Dallas added - 156 images. Click Here 4/08/2006: Check out the new links on the left for Musuems - Planes of Fame, Udvar Hazy, Cradle of Aviation 12/01/2005: Finished Tamiya's 1/48 Stug III Ausf B, my return to Armor building after 25 years 9/21/05: Finished Nakajima Ki-27, code named "Nate" by the US, this one is in Manchukuo markings 7/11/05: The Amtech's P-40E - Tex Hill Special Edition is finished 2/12/05: The F-7Eb 8/16/04: Added new build articles for Bf109 and A6M5 Clear edition 11/24/2003: Finally, FINALLY! updated the home Home Projects with something, not much but its a start. , 9/28/2003: This one took a while, as its my first 'limited run' kit with lots of resin details. Its the A5M2K, the trainer version of the Japanese fighter that preceded its famous offspring, the A6M2 Zeke - more popularly known as the Zero in the West. Code named "Claude", it saw extensive action in China before the the outbreak of war with the US. 7/1/2003: Managed to finish another model within 2
months. This time its the Hawk75 5/13/2003:
Finished the Ta183 1/12/2003: Happy new year! Completed Testor's all
metal F-18 Chippy Ho. 11/12/2002: Finished the Promodeler
WWII ground equipment. The WWII ground kit got my interest up in 1/48th armor to
complement by 1/48th aircraft. Or more accurately, the lack of
1/48th armor. Seems only Zendefu from China are building any,
and mainly modern tanks. Resin kits are also available but also
quite expensive - $20-$35 for a jeep. Good kits from Bandai were
available in the late 70's but has been discontinued and they
command a hefty price as 'collector items' on Ebay. Turns on
Frog/Fuman (French imported Chinese manufacturing) has taken
over the Bandai molds and are reissuing them. Unfortunately,
turns out they are discontinuing them too and very hard and
expensive in the US. Luckily I located a small place
(www.parabelum.co.uk) that had them in stock and on sale. Even
with shipping, they were 1/2 the price of Ebay! Ah, the power of
the Internet. 9/30/2002: Finished the Accurate Miniature SBD-1
Dauntless 7/8/2002: Finally got one picture of my reworked
diecast toy P-47 6/6/2002:
New plane on the workbench - see picture in
progress for SBD-1 Dauntless 5/3/2002: Hasegawa 'Skeleton' see-thru
Zero A6M5 Zeke 2/13/2002: German
Tiger diorama from the late 1970's! 2/5/2002: Added Guestbook feature and Links |
Once
again, I decided to build an all metal plane as a display for my
office. While the metal kits don't have the crisps details of a
plastic kit, they can still be detailed and build into a very
presentable and 'busy-hands survivable' presentation.
Also
finished a US WWII carrier deck base to pose some Navy & Marine
planes on. So I added pictures to the Dauntless and F3F with the
decking and some 'creative' background (color pictures from a
book).
