1st half of 2015 events list. All events tentative except SnF and Megacon
February 7 Boggy Bottom Auto Fest
February 17 Mr Big concert
February 21 Planes Trains and Automobiles
March 1 Kennedy Space Center and VAC
March 8 St Pete Festivals of Speed
March 15 TICO Warbird Airshow
March 21 Melbourne Air and Space show.
March 22 St Pete Grand Prix
April 3 Fast 7
April 10-12 MegaCon
April 22 and 26 Sun N Fun
May 8 VE Day 70th in DC (If in any way possible)
May 24 Omni Con
June 7 Star Wars Weekends
July 25-26 Fanboy Expo
August 1-2 Tampa Bay Comic Con
Showing posts with label modelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modelling. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Doing some modeling
As most of you know, I'm an avid modeller, and have gotten to the point where I've gotten almost everything I want for my collection built or in my stash.
Two VERY noticeable exceptions to this rule are my Unicorns, things I would LOVE to own that would round off my extensive collection quite nicely.
The first is a truly historic aircraft that is near and dear to my heart, and would round off my Golden Age, Milestones in Flight, and Pioneers collections quite well. She is a 1/72 Junkers W33 to represent the Bremen, the first aircraft to fly the Atlantic nonstop East to West. There was only ever one made, by RT Models, and she is extremely rare to find these days. A pic of this kit box is below.
The other, also in 1/72 scale, and which used to be on eBay quite a bit 5-7 years ago (and I didn't pick one up then, dammit), is one of the iconic TV aircraft of my youth, the highly modified Bell 222 known as Airwolf. This was a limited-run kit made, I believe, in Korea (if anyone knows what language is on the box and can tell me the name of the company, I'd be obliged) but it's listed in some places as made by Union/MPC. I have the Blue Thunder by the same company already, and getting Airwolf would finish off my Hollywoodland collection quite well.
If anyone knows of someone who has these kits, or is someone, I'd be greatly appreciative of being put in touch with them so I can get my hands on these last couple of models for my collection.
Here is one of my most recent builds, a kitbash of the Revell B-17F and the Academy B-17F Flying Fortress. By combining the two kits, I was able to come up with a historically accurate version of the Memphis Belle, an aircraft I had the honor of visiting at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, and of which I met the pilot, Colonel Robert Morgan, at an airshow in Tampa the year before he passed.
Two VERY noticeable exceptions to this rule are my Unicorns, things I would LOVE to own that would round off my extensive collection quite nicely.
The first is a truly historic aircraft that is near and dear to my heart, and would round off my Golden Age, Milestones in Flight, and Pioneers collections quite well. She is a 1/72 Junkers W33 to represent the Bremen, the first aircraft to fly the Atlantic nonstop East to West. There was only ever one made, by RT Models, and she is extremely rare to find these days. A pic of this kit box is below.
The other, also in 1/72 scale, and which used to be on eBay quite a bit 5-7 years ago (and I didn't pick one up then, dammit), is one of the iconic TV aircraft of my youth, the highly modified Bell 222 known as Airwolf. This was a limited-run kit made, I believe, in Korea (if anyone knows what language is on the box and can tell me the name of the company, I'd be obliged) but it's listed in some places as made by Union/MPC. I have the Blue Thunder by the same company already, and getting Airwolf would finish off my Hollywoodland collection quite well.
Here is one of my most recent builds, a kitbash of the Revell B-17F and the Academy B-17F Flying Fortress. By combining the two kits, I was able to come up with a historically accurate version of the Memphis Belle, an aircraft I had the honor of visiting at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, and of which I met the pilot, Colonel Robert Morgan, at an airshow in Tampa the year before he passed.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Long overdue catch up
I've noticed I've been getting a lot of new traffic from Deutschland lately, specifically from the boys over at flugzeugforum.de, which reminded me that I never properly did any blogging about my trip back home last summer.
Herren aus den Foren zu flugzeugforum.de, begrüßen. Vielen Dank für den Verkehr, und wenn Sie irgendwelche Fragen haben, fragen Sie bitte. Mein Deutsch ist furchtbar rostig, aber ich werde tun, was ich kann, um alle Fragen für mich zu beantworten. Nun, ich werde für den Rest meiner Leser zurückschalten auf Englisch, die wahrscheinlich gerade jetzt ein bisschen verwirrt! ;)
The worst parts of the trip to Germany were having to leave that amazing country again, and the flight over. A little free travel trip. NEVER TAKE DELTA. Definitely not if you have to connect through Atlanta, as you may well never reach your destination. After a bit of trials and tribulation that involved Delta making us miss our connection to Stuttgart THAT WAS STILL ON THE TARMAC, I turned a bit Hulk and browbeat a poor Delta employee into getting myself and my parents on a flight to Dublin, with a later connection into Stuttgart. Because there is no way in hell I was going to spend the night in the Atlanta airport.
All that "fun" done, we arrived in Germany and headed for our rental house in Winnenden, which is honestly the closest thing I have to a hometown. Being there brought back a lot of memories, most too personal to go into depth nin on this public forum, which is not why you guys read this thing anyway.
So, in order to not make this one blog massive, I'm going to split the trip up into smaller bits, and do it in no particularly chronological order at all.
We all know I love aviation, especially American and Russian military, and nowhere on Earth do the two reside side by side better than in Germany, and most especially, at the splendid Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim outside München. They had everything to make this aviation geek happy, from Early Age biplanes through to the Eurofighter EFA 2000 Typhoon. But why just tell you, when I can SHOW you??
Herren aus den Foren zu flugzeugforum.de, begrüßen. Vielen Dank für den Verkehr, und wenn Sie irgendwelche Fragen haben, fragen Sie bitte. Mein Deutsch ist furchtbar rostig, aber ich werde tun, was ich kann, um alle Fragen für mich zu beantworten. Nun, ich werde für den Rest meiner Leser zurückschalten auf Englisch, die wahrscheinlich gerade jetzt ein bisschen verwirrt! ;)
The worst parts of the trip to Germany were having to leave that amazing country again, and the flight over. A little free travel trip. NEVER TAKE DELTA. Definitely not if you have to connect through Atlanta, as you may well never reach your destination. After a bit of trials and tribulation that involved Delta making us miss our connection to Stuttgart THAT WAS STILL ON THE TARMAC, I turned a bit Hulk and browbeat a poor Delta employee into getting myself and my parents on a flight to Dublin, with a later connection into Stuttgart. Because there is no way in hell I was going to spend the night in the Atlanta airport.
All that "fun" done, we arrived in Germany and headed for our rental house in Winnenden, which is honestly the closest thing I have to a hometown. Being there brought back a lot of memories, most too personal to go into depth nin on this public forum, which is not why you guys read this thing anyway.
So, in order to not make this one blog massive, I'm going to split the trip up into smaller bits, and do it in no particularly chronological order at all.
We all know I love aviation, especially American and Russian military, and nowhere on Earth do the two reside side by side better than in Germany, and most especially, at the splendid Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim outside München. They had everything to make this aviation geek happy, from Early Age biplanes through to the Eurofighter EFA 2000 Typhoon. But why just tell you, when I can SHOW you??
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