Models & Musings


  • Revisiting an old friend

    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…


  • His ship, my friend

    LCI 570 circa 1945 Background Joe is 91 and served with the Amphibious Forces during World War II.  He is a longtime and dear family friend of my wife, she’s known him since she was 5.  I’ve known Joe since about 1980 when I first met my (then) future wife.  He and his wife Fran…


  • Finally back in the groove

    After nearly a year of no posting, I finally found the time to get back online. I arrived back in the US in February and had to wait about 8 weeks for my stuff.  It sat in my modelling room while I got the new job stable…or is that stable in my new job?  At…