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I've been an SOH member for many years and I still get confused about images in posts. For me the big head-scratcher is why sometimes images appear full sized in posts and sometimes as thumbnails...

When I was a little kid my parents used to take me down the highway to Bradley Field (now Bradley International, KBDL) where we'd sit out on the open deck right above the boarding ramp (no jetways...

Here are a couple shots of my Golden Pearl Harbor.

First, a wider view of Ford Island. As you can see, there wasn't much else but pavement on Ford Island by the end of the thirties. You can see...

I put the skins up last evening, so they should appear on the download page as soon as one of the librarians gets a chance to do an update. I know it went up because I can see it on the download...

Thanks.

Well, it started out as Golden Hawaii, which I have the rest of installed. But Pearl Harbor in Golden Hawaii is grossly inaccurate. For one thing, it's set in the very early thirties,...

Here's Shessi's Hall Aluminum PH-1 taking off from Fleet Air Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii some time in the middle thirties with Battleship Row on Ford Island below.93531

I agree. They are as beautiful as their radial engined predecessors were awkward!

Even without any colors or markings on it you could recognize an Italian airplane at first glance!

And they went to war that way! The insignia on the nose signifies participation in the euphemistically named "Neutrality Patrol," when the U.S. Navy assisted the Royal Navy in protecting convoys...

Aside from the actual authenticity of colors, don't forget the dreaded phenomenon of scale effect. I tried to work around it for decades of plastic modeling and now I see it in digital modeling. In...

Yes! NormB taught me how to make the model visible in VC view, then adjust the eyepoint to put it where it should be so you can look out from inside the cockpit. I've done that with other planes...

Cool! I did that too! I'd wanted a TB-25 for years and a couple years ago I found John Young's AI B-25 with a model without its turrets and made me a flyable TB to fly at my USAF bases in FS1954. ...

John, it's good to see you again!

Just read the major article on the Deux Ponts in the current Aeroplane Monthly!

It's gone up and should appear on the download page presently.

I finally came up with a silver dope base color that I can live with.

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Yes, of course. The salt sea air wrecked the paints and dopes available in those days amazingly quickly. Airplanes needed repainting and recovering almost yearly. There's a photo in one of the...

Thanks Jorge! :encouragement:

I downloaded your repaints for the F11C and F4B and I think you matched the official colors very closely. I thought you might have been nipped lightly by scale...

Thanks Jerry! :encouragement:

It was something of a project to come up with the colors. I started with the color chips in Major Elliott's first Monogram volume, which I didn't have back when I...

I said a week ago that I was about ready to upload my revision of the old T4M Torpedo Truck as soon as I checked the new skins for errors. I only found one thing I wasn't satisfied with - the base...

While David's fully occupied with off-live life I've taken the opportunity to step back from the Classic Era into the Golden age and do something I've wanted to do for years. I've completely...

Tempts me to boot up Golden Wings and take a Tutor for a flight!

Thanks Alex,

Now that I have a functional confutor the project is moving along after an eight month hiatus. David is doing a couple final tweaks on the models and I’m doing some little fixes on...

I don't mean to hog this thread but we haven't had any new pictures for a couple weeks now. So here's another screenie from our upcoming B-45 Tornado project.

This is a B-45C-5, a very rare bird....

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"Stateside" was an RB-45C of Detachment 2 of the Strategic Air Command's 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron deployed to Far East Air Forces in 1953, during the Korean War. It got from...

We’ll, some planes are works of art.