Jon Krol

I have a Tamiya F-14D. What do you have? I build 1/48 post war USN subjects.

Dec. 23rd is Festivus day. Today you can air your grievances and perform your feats of strength. Don't forget the Festivus pole. And oh, Merry Christmas.

I'm still here. Stop by at least twice a day.

I am selling my Dragon 1/6th scale Jeep. It is unbuilt and complete in the factory box in the sealed bags. I also have the extremely rare L-Head 134 Go-Devil Engine in the original box that is for the Dragon Jeep. Strangely, Dragon never released the Jeep with the engine. The engine was sold separately and only once at the DX'08 Dragon Expo in 2008 and has never been reissued. The engine is only available from individuals now. The engine comes from Dragon, assembled and painted protected in a formed foam insert in its own box. This Jeep does not have the 30 or 50cal guns and did not come with

I have the Monogram/Revell Huey Hog kit. It is ostensibly a UH-1B model with the narrow tail boom fin. I bought the Hobby Boss UH-1C model which has the later wide fin. The booms match up perfectly except for the engine exhaust with the HB exhaust is just slightly longer by about 1-2mm.

Italeri or Gallery/Trumpeter?

I have as my oldest kit the U.S. Navy Frogmen and LCP(R) from 1959. I just sold it recently but my actual oldest kit was the S-3A by ESCI original issue. I got it at Xmas around 1985 or so.

International extortion.

I'm 71 and the guy looked like he lived on roids for the last 60 years.

This crap is insane.

I think Ultra Cast also made a metal set to go along with their nacelle and wing root update set for later aircraft.

It is a beast to build. All the landing gear and doors are off it right now. The metal gear, while pretty good, does not want to stay attached to the resin wheel wells.

My feeble attempt at the FM kit. An unabashed terrible kit to build. Overall, very accurate but the multi media aspect does not simplify the build. Add to the short shots on all the wing trailing edges that have to be rebuilt from plastic sheet stock. It was a slog.

I believe Lone Star Models made a set for the later version gear.

Looks like the old WWII Bronze Green to me.