I served Uncle Sam during the first half of the nineteen-eighties. During this time, the United States did not fight any wars. How do I…
I should do a review of this book. It’s as good a history of the Israeli Air Force as you are likely to find. In…
I don’t visit hobby stores very often, because they are not, really, welcoming places. They’re not exactly your favorite cozy coffee shop. They’re usually run…
I have made a serious commitment (to myself) to post a blog entry every day. But not every day offers a dandy model-building topic for…
I have some long-running internet grudges, and I’ve hinted around about them here and, frankly, I’m tired of dancing around the subject. Today I’m going…
It’s my blog. That’s the beauty of it. I can go COMPLETELY off topic, and start writing about pizzagate or gamergate or some other weirdness,…
I remember when Revell’s A-20 jumped off the shelf at me in (when was it?) 1970 (or thereabouts). Old Revell kits fill me with nostalgia…
My post yesterday about buying paint reminded me that I live in one of the last bastions of the old-fashioned hobby shop. It’s true that…
Some blogs are about plastic model kits, and some blogs are about AVIATION HISTORY and only a few are strange and uncomfortable mixtures of both.…