Greenshirt Modeler

Category: Aircraft

  • 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…

  • Spirit of St Louis

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    This was an easy kit, about 20 parts total, and only the one “color”. The Subject The Spirit of St Louis — what more can be said?  Charles Lindbergh flew her from New York to Paris on May 20-21st 1927 non-stop to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an aircraft non-stop. The…

  • Revisiting an old friend

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    Revell Fighting Deuces Back in the Summer of 1970 I was lucky enough to have some pocket money and purchased the double kit from Revell of the Zero and Wildcat. Great box art for a 10 year old looking for something to soar above his Arizona kit, which was floating in my Grandfather’s pond. I…