Greenshirt Modeler

Category: Aircraft

  • Not just another Flying Tiger — “It’s GRRREAT!”

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    Fictional Racer This is not my scale, being 1/48th, but it was free and the club wanted to do a “build the same kit” theme so I acquiesced. The Backstory What if NASCAR never took off, so to speak, but aviation racing reached the sponsorship and popularity of modern day NASCAR? Lots of aircraft available…

  • Who’s who?

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    Spitfire Mk XVIII, TZ233/T, 208 Squadron RAF, Palestine 1947 This was a long term project, mainly because this MPM kit is a limited run kit, meaning I had to supply some details, scratch others, and generally fix all the errors. The Subject The Mk XIV was meant as an interim solution until the “Super Spitfire”…

  • A new chapter to the Spitfire

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    Spitfire Mk IV, DP845, 1941 While researching my Spitfire III project I ran into DP845, the first (of two) Spitfire IV prototypes.  There was enough unique about it that I decided I had to make it, and put it alongside my Spitfire III.  I’ve since decided that if one is to have every mark of…