Recent content by jimh

This thread is an absolute treasure trove. Thanks for posting.

Sweetie Face From the Little Friends Website

Thank you Vic, I'm glad there are so many that appreciate these moments and I'm thankful that you could share it with your family. He was so humble...until we got airborne...and he was rolling, banking and pulling like he was 20. I still get goosebumps thinking about being driven around by a...

The LifeLike decals went on beautifully...blows me away they can make them this accurate...just a bit of softening solution and they look painted. Thank you!

lol...I didn't want to push my luck with that thread title

Taking a break from Mustangs. These two are a couple of my personal favorite paint schemes and both have a great history. Lt. Col. Frank Perego, 368th FG Commander's 'Slick Chick' and 56th Fighter Group Ace David Schilling's 'Hairless Joe'. Both are Tamiya kits and finished with Alclad and...

Contrary Mary is one of my favorite looking TF's...if you are going to do one, this is the right way to do it, they really nailed it. The kit is converted from a Tamiya P-51D/Korea. I used my own parts and canopy for the conversion and the decals are from Kits World...if I rememember right. I...

I wrote this up for iModeler earlier this year, thought you guys would appreciate it. When you're a kid reading books about WWII fighter pilots they are but distant literary bits of history earmarked with grainy black and white photos. I'd seen the well known photo of Mike Rogers sitting on...

I was flying rides in Betty Jane that year out of French Valley. I was monitoring March AFB frequency and heard them call in 'heading south for French Valley'. I could see the contrails not long after and I started heading off to the East to give them room. I asked my customer if he wanted to...

Great photo! There was a long...and drawn out...discussion on the Facebook Mustang page regarding the use of the name "Apache" for the A-36. The conclusion based on various documents dug up by members if the group show It was never formally adopted by the Military. The name does appear in a...

Wow...this is a really rare shot of the right side of Charles McCorkle's "Betty Jane" from the 31st Fighter Group. Awesome find!! Jim

When Betty Jane was taken off-line for an overhaul they decided to do Stars Look Down. I made a 2 seat conversion for the 1/48 Tamiya kit. When Ike flew in her she didn't have the noseart. Not long after his famous flight over St. Lo it was repainted, or extensively touched up. The biggest...

From what they started with...it's an incredible restoration. Jan Frieben Photo

Glad this is evolving!! I'll have more soon. For now, a friend sent me photos from American Aero of the former P-51C Betty Jane, she is now complete and refinished as Stars Look Down. They really went through the entire airframe, made the cockpit stock, put the guns back in the wings and it...

While I'm at it :), here are a few screen grabs from Chuck Wahl's place at Vultures Row, it literally looks like the Vought factory. Jim