Jay Chladek

Dayum those look pretty!

I did Rick. And the Hasegawa X-29 I built a few years ago did take a second place there, so I was happy. One of these days I will tackle doing a Cobra Rattler, but I have to let my modeling mojo recharge for a bit as I put a lot into this model, almost too much.

Beautiful job! As I look at that spine, I wonder if some in country Soviet aircraft identification publication identified the Thunderstick modification as an "F-105bis" given how it looks like some of the second generation MiG-21s out there.

Makes a great Airwolf target as well. Very nicely done!

It's been far too long since I have posted any recent builds here. This model dominated my work bench for a good part of the past couple years, but I finally got it done in August for the IPMS Nationals in Hampton. It is Revell's 1/32 F-14A kit, specifically the Revell of Germany version which was offered in the 1990s. The original kit from 1982 had some generally good features, but Revell added some additional lumps and bumps to it in 1987 after they were bought by the Odyssey Group along with Monogram. So the newer kit includes a TCS chin pod, additional ECM lumps and bumps, plus a newly mol

Outstanding work!

Two canopies as well. One open, one shut. Now I'm tempted to try doing an NF-104 from this kit as this could be the best Starfighter in 1/72 on the planet!

Wow! I'm surprised I never saw this as a work in progress until now! I've had a dream of doing a Skystriker for a few years, mainly to make Darren Roberts cringe ;). But I am really in love with these results. I just embarked on a 1/72 build myself, utilizing an Esci/AMT kit. Not the greatest F-14 kit out there, but at least it has recessed panel lines. With luck I might have it done by next weekend, but that is a tall order. Do you have plans to take your build to the IPMS Nationals in Madison this year? I would love to potentially see it in the flesh.

Wow!!! Looks like I will be ordering something cool for Christmas!!!

I recently finished up a quickie "stress relief" build, although admittedly it had a few of its own challenges and took longer than anticipated. This is the Atlantis F11F Tiger, which is a reissue of the classic Revell kit offered circa 1958 to 1964(ish). It is box scale and scales out to about 1/54. Given nobody to date has done a decent F11F in 1/48 (not that I would considered the FM kit "decent) it is pretty much all that is out there since Lindberg's offering is really an XF9F-9 prototype which was smaller than the production Tigers. I pretty much did the model out of the box. But in

Adding to what others have said, beautiful job!!!

Resurrecting this thread. I again am blown away by the work done on this. I would love to somehow have the ability to have parts for this model printed in 1/32, which would result in a model 21" in length (the same as the smaller studio models. Is there any help I could enlist to help make my dream a potential reality? The reason I ask is I recently managed to acquire what might be considered a "son" of Firefox in a sense. I will explain when I get the pieces in my hot little hands. Thanks!

I think you have just fundamentally changed the balance of power amigo.

Scuse me while I have a Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" moment. 😉 Pretty danged impressive and I'm glad those photos I shot all those years ago came in handy for something like this!

Concerning the subject of doing a 367-80, your best starting point is a Minicraft KC-135A kit. Jodie Peeler had a 1/72 AMT 135 conversion article printed in FSM back circa 1998-99 (USS Tennessee was on the cover) and the drawings were printed in 1/144 scale to fit the pages. The information presented in those pages will work fine for a 1/144 build and in some ways are a bit easier to do.