My models

1/48 F4U-1D 86 "Lucybelle", as photo-opped with Pappy Boyington. Custom decals by CanMilAir of London (Ontario). Part of a large collection of F4U models of a private collector. 

1/48 Hobby Boss FAA Corsair IV. January 18, 1945, on board escort carrier HMS Arbiter, Firth of Clyde. The base simulates the wooden planking of the carrier and a portion of the catapult track. On permanent display at the Montreal Aviation Museum. 

1/72 Airfix C-47 Skytrain. This aircraft, KN392, was flown by the President of the Montreal Aviation Museum, LtCol (ret) John Lawson. Part of his private collection. 

Superb custom decals by CanMilAir of London (Ontario). 

Elitsa Dimitrova, my guest pianist, with her Bosendorfer Grand Piano, in the Art Gallery of the Montreal Aviation Museum, at the unveiling of the Squadron Leader Malcolm Dalton Loucks Memorial. His son and I were hall-mates at Bishop's University. 

May 10, 1945: Mosquito Mk.IX "F for Freddie", one hour before final fatal flight; Calgary (Alberta). This aircraft flew the greatest number of Allied combat missions, no matter what the Americans claim (213 missions). 

Mock-up for the 1/24 Airfix Mosquito FB.VI display case. This diorama will faithfully reproduce the May 10, 1945 Calgary photograph show before this one, down to electric motors spinning the propellors. 

1/48 Tamiya Mosquito FB Mk.VI. HF-S stands for Hudson Film Society; this model was raffled at a private showing of "633 Squadron", January 2016. 

Cockpit details, 1/24 Airfix Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib (late) SA-Q MN125. 

Yes, I mean large F4U collection. Mine is on his coffee table, with his wife's approval. 

1/24 Airfix Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib (late) under construction. Could not resist the temptation of turning it at this stage into "Me Inca Flying God" totem pole figure. 

1/24 RAF figurine (sans la cigarette) leaning on his 1/24 Airfix Typhoon Mk.Ib (late). Code letters: SA-Q. 

One of the four cannons rescued from the wreck of the real SA-Q, Shot down by light flak near Caen June 07, 1944. 

1/24 Typhoon in its display case in my workshop, ready for the CBC TV crew, May 27, 2016. 

Ditto, cover off. 

See separate album for 1/72 Airfix Lancaster Mk.II. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

1/72 Airfix Avro Lancaster Mk.II. See separate album for full set of photograhs. 

1/72 Airfix Avro Lancaster Mk.I/III rear turret detail. 

Ditto. 

One of my favourite Cold War birds: 1/48 Academy Hawker Hunter F.6. 

Ditto. 

WP-H detail. 

"Island of the Giant Tarantulas" 

Cockpit detail, 1/48 Hobbycraft Avro Arrow. The entire cockpit interior is scratch-built, and the clamshell caopies are the kit-supplied solid canopy, cut into six pieces with a jeweller's saw. 

Detail, 1/48 Hobbycraft Avro Arrow, RCAF 206. Decals by CanMilAir. The heat shield is hobby metallic foil perforated with a sewing needle. Private collection of one of those still looking for 202. 

1/72 Airfix Avro Lancaster Mk.I/III "WP-H" 

Pappy Boyington being attacked, "Island of the Giant Tarantulas", October 1943. 

1/72 Hobbycraft CF-100 Mk.4, as flown by LtCol(ret) John Lawson, AETE. Custom decals by CanMilAir. 

The "X" on the rudder: experimental/test 

The RCAF possibly should have been CAF, but RCAF was the wish of the pilot. 

Private collection, John Lawson. 

Obscureco cockpit. A delight with which to work. 

Cockpit detail: Obscureco. 

1/48 Hobby Boss FAA Corsair IV, on balsa decking simulating, to scale, the wooden decking (down to the catapult track) of the escort carrier HMS Arbiter, 18 February 1945. Model on permanent display in the Art Gallery of the Montreal Aviation Museum. 

There is that pesky tarantula again. Probably voted for Donald Trump. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That venerable Airfix 1/72 Chipmunk, as flown by LtCol(ret) John Lawson. 

Ditto. 

In order to produce better photographs at home of my builds, I bought a Nikon D7100, with a Nikkor Micro 85mm lens. Instructions manual nearly useless, so I got the next best thing. Still cannot figure it out.