1/72 A-37

In what has since become a pattern for me, this project was a quick and easy one after a more involved conversion (the Tornado). It's built out of the box, the only addition being the tarmac section (just like the T-34B, I needed to find a way to make it sit squarely on its wheels). Admittedly, the gray is a bit darker than it should be...

Kit: Hasegawa
Scale: 1/72
Markings: 19th TAAS, 51st TFW
Date: 2001
Aftermarket: None

1/144 B-52

This one is sort of a "replacement" model. I had originally built one in Junior High or High School, getting a kick out of the fact it was in markings for the 92nd Strategic Bombing Wing at Fairchild AFB, near where I grew up. However, the decals didn't react well to the flat coat I used, and shriveled up.

Fast forward about 10 years and I came across it again (and this time used an acrylic flat coat, less likely to wreak havoc).

Kit: Revell
Scale: 1/144
Markings: 92nd SBW, Fairchild AFB, WA
Date: Summer 2000
Aftermarket: None

1/72 YF-22

I started this one in college (during those semester break trips home), but didn't finish it till I escaped Florida and set up housekeeping in Oak Harbor, WA. This was also the first one I was able to paint with an airbrush, an Aztek A470.

Kit: Testor's
Scale: 1/72
Markings: Prototype
Date: Mid 90's, 2000
Aftermarket: None

1/72 B-2 Siprit

College meant building only during semester breaks (1 month in the winter, 2-3 months in the summer). After graduating and setting up housekeeping in Pensacola, I could devote slightly more attention to my past-times. Although I was to find, as many other builders, that "real life" tends to intrude (work, moving, etc), I was able to build more than I did in college.

This was the first project I did in Pensacola. Most of it is spray painted, using aerosol cans in a makeshift cardboard spray booth on the deck of the apartment.

Kit: Testor's
Scale: 1/72
Markings: 509th Bomb Wing
Date: 1999
Aftermarket: None

1/72 YF-23

Another one from the relatively early days. It's among the last ones that are completely brush painted.

Kit: Testors
Scale: 1/72
Markings: ATF prototype
Date: Mid-1990's
Aftermarket: None