Models & Musings


  • Battle of the Atlantic

    The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Association requested the Southern Maryland Scale Modelers build a number of ship and aircraft models for display to help tell the story of Naval Aviation as part of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic. Background The Battle of the Atlantic raged for the entire period of the…


  • Airfix Spitfires

    Airfix released 23 Spitfires in 4 scales over the last 57 years and their objective is to release one of each mark, in 72nd scale anyway. As the premier kitmaker foe Britain youd think their kits of their most iconic aircraft would be the best there is.   Unfortunately, some have been pretty horrible as…


  • Hiatus

    Six months since my last posting!  Too long, but I’ve been distracted by work.  You know it, that thing that lets me pursue this hobby.  And also some leisure activities that, to some degree, are related to modeling. I HAVE been modeling, though.  Just not posting.  In February my local club was approached by the…