Models & Musings
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Final Day of the Condor
Revell Fw-200C-8 Werknummer 0224, F8+OL, 3/KG 40, 31 March 1944 This is the other four-engined aircraft for the Battle of the Atlantic display, Patuxent River Museum. This kit was started by a fellow modeller, Dan Yakel, who did the major construction, leaving the painting, decalling and fiddly bits to me. The Subject The Condor started…
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Peashooter in Gold
P-26A 18th Pursuit Group This one had stalled since July 2012 due to…decals. I had them, had started putting them on, but it is usually during the decal stage that a great model start to turn into an average model (for me anyway). Something always goes wrong. So before this one went South I stopped,…
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Not just another Flying Tiger — “It’s GRRREAT!”
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…