Well my fellow model builders Rodney was from the San Francisco area. He used to lead a weekly model building session at an airport in San Jose, which I used to attend. He did the most fantastic work. He would help anyone brave enough to walk in with his project in hand. He was working on an F86 at the time I was there. Most of his work was on commission, as was the "Gal". I walked in with a P-51B, 1/32, he had me doing all kinds of things I had never considered doing. Hand made struts, cockpit, gun bays, ribbing, as I wanted a battle damaged plane. We used to cast some of the parts he made. To scale prop blades he used on the Gal. Drop tanks were hand made by him. I had two good sized tackle boxes, one with tools, the other with plane parts....... had them both nicked! He was the most generous people with his time you could ever imagine. I often wonder, as I am now getting back into this, where he is, if he is still around. He was in his sixties back then I am sure, retired and worked onhis models all the time. Cheers, Bill