Thursday, April 26, 2018

War Eagle 1/48 Lavovkin LA-5FN

Another of the vacuum formed kits from War Eagle.  The kit builds up really nice.

Photo and model by Jim Maas















War Eagle 1/48 F-89 Scorpion Kit

This one of Ron's big kit. The vacuum formed come out before Revell released their 1/48 model. I was a pretty advance vacuum formed for it day.   Big thanks to Larry Schmidt for provide the pictures.









F-89 built and photo by Gil Hodges 



Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Boomerang restoration pictures

This restoration has been going on for 20yrs.  There are three in the works. Two will be able to fly again.  Not bad when one thinks as these are wrecks to start with.
















Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Arctic USAF aircraft from the 50's

Pictures are from Douglas K. Rhodes when he was a Capt for the USAF.  All aircraft shown are from Thule Greenland. 


The first  aircraft was called the "Thule Princess".  It fly the boss to Sonderstrom, Goose Bay ad places south. Also flew into a couple of Canadian weather stations Eureka, Alert and a Danish site called Nord on he NE corner of Greenland.








Below classified as an SC-47. Used for search and rescue. Plus to fly people and resupplies to the village of Quaanak, north of Thule.

Cl


Saturday, March 24, 2018

Great site on printing your own decals (Alps Printers)

We all know that Alps printers have pretty well gone the way of the DoDo Bird.  But there are people who still support them.  Plus provide good information on keeping them running.

Design your own ALPS decals.