Recent content by Silver Dollar

I just got mine today and I'm completely blown away by it. It's nice to have a kit with so much detail where I don't have to spend a lot of time adding it. I get burned out very easily. This kit's going to help me avoid that.

Mr. Park is actually Dr. Park. He is a retired dentist from Hawaii and has always aspired to make airplanes out of aluminum. He's definitely got more instruments than I do and a better machine shop.

I'm currently working on Trumpeter's 1/32 P38L. It's a pretty detailed kit but I still have to add some detail. I had to scratchbuild a new instrument panel because I decided to thin the kit panel and wound up losing 1/4 of the part. I wasn't too happy with that.

That's great. I love those giant scale builds. I just wish I had the room to build one of those biggies.

That's a beautiful job on the Tbolt. It's a very unusual scheme and you duplicated it very well.

There were two "chromates", the yellow one like you see done in the wheel wells of P47s and the green which you see on a bunch of other planes. It was used as an anti corrosive. I've seen where soda can aluminum was used for really large scale models like the R/C size. For the rivet detail...

No problem, Doug. I happen to think enlisted "pukes" are the backbone of the military. Without them, a lot of work wouldn't get done. You don't expect officers to do any work now do you??

Thanks guys for the kind words. One jacket usually takes me about 3 weeks to do once I have a design in mind. I don't know how much they'd be since I've never charged for any. I really don't do them much anymore since the costs of those jackets by themselves are astronomical and I can't...

I thought this might be a good place to put up some pics of some of the A2 jackets I've done in the past. I don't do this for a living and haven't done one for a while. I basically do them for my own collection. Hope you like. the first 3 are WWII style. The last 2 are more modern.

Thank you all for the war welcome. I'm really starting to enjoy the site.

That's the ultimate in scale modeling. I'm truly humbled by this man's work.

Hi all. My name is Jeff and I'm a retired USAF dentist. I've had a running love affair with USAAC and USAAF aircraft since I started on active duty in 1976 and this seems to be a great place to continue that affair. I'm currently a large scale car and aircraft model builder and a nose art...