War Eagle 1/48 F-100F conversion for Monogram kit

This was one of War eagles  popular kits.  The master for the conversion was made by the late Dave "Boh"  Boksanski. I remember Dave working on in his man cave.   Boh like F-100's a lot. This as a simple quick conversion he created in about a day.  I still can see him flying the model making jet sounds...   There is a great article by Gil Hodges on building the conversion on  Hyperscale.  The article  can be found here: F-100f by Gil Hodges 2004

Model and photo by Gil Hodges

WW2 B-29 assembly line photos.

Early KC-135 Day-Glo

I have always liked the looks of the early KC-135 in the Day-glo scheme

War Eagle 1/48 B-57

Another kit that Ron made for the modelers.  It seemed that everyone wanted a B-57 in 1.48 scale.  Well Ron made it happen, that what was interesting about Ron.  If he thought people wanted the kit he would push to get one out.   What amazed Ron had a full time job as a plastic injection mold maker.  It was at that time a highly skill machinist trade.  Working long hours at his regular job he pushed himself to make War Eagle a first class company.  I'm looking for any completed picture of the model to post here.

Photo provided by Gil Hodges.

War Eagle A-4 conversions.

The A-4 has one of Ron's first vacuum form conversion created by him.  He had the master made here and shipped to New Zealand to be made.  Ron was a big fan of the tiny A-4.  Plus at that time the monogram kit was state of the art kit  During this time simple resin conversion where coming on the model seen.  Ron and I had a discussion on making the nose and intake out of resin. But Ron as fully committed to vacuum form.  Later missing link used this idea for their conversions.   

All A-4s built by Gil Hodges

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