Category: World War II

  • Anniversary: Pearl Harbor

    Well, the 70th anniversary of the “Day of Infamy” was last December.  Every year we commemorate any milestone anniversary with a theme build; but not necessarily a specific event.  This year I decided to note the attack on Pearl Harbor as most modelers were focusing on more recent milestones. At any rate, I dropped the…

  • “Trench Warfare”

    After a couple of years of poor participation in our BTSK — Build The Same Kit — theme we decided to change things up and build the same kit manufacturer.  In this case we chose Matchbox.  For the uninitiated, Matchbox is notorious for deep trench-like panel lines, but I have to say most of my…

  • A pair of Wildcats

    Our club’s theme for July is “Salute the General”, any model of a General Motors subject. My initial plan was to model the FM-2 Wildcat using the MPM kit, but once the Museum project kicked in I had to find something less challenging. Since Iwasn’t doing 1 FM-2, I decided to do 2 FM-1’s. A…