Early birds galore from dj...

Following Brian's call, here's a few of my earlier attempts at modeling... Unfortunately I do not have any pics of my very early days, so all those we built after I joined a local model club and had learned a few little things (like painting models rather than buying kits whose plastic looked like the scheme of the aircraft..!).

Anyway, here we go: (and sorry for the quality of the pics!)


This trio of pics shows Hasegawa's 1/72 P-51D Mustang (did not look too bad, but my puttying and sanding skills still had to be improved, and there were some little 'bumps' on the top of the nose, but you can not see them from this pic!), Tamiya's 1/100 Me-262 and Aifix 1/72 Me-163 Komet, with my first attempt at 'diorama', with a FlaK tower, a false bombed over airstrip and a few figures. This Komet was maybe a touch too glossy.. but I just loved it! Those were built in 1979 and 1980.

OK, next is a Oeffag D.III, modified from a 1/72 ESCI Albatross D.III. The spiral cammo was litteraly written over with a Rotring pen, and the decals were home-made (now you can buy those decals and the spiral pattern on decal..!). This dates back to... 1986. I was 20...


Next is, and you'll have to believe me here, a portion of a huge 'diorama' with the 6 Blue Angels Skyhawk, plus crew, pilots and some vehicles, built from the 1/48 Skyhawk and Ground crew kits of ESCI. This was the 'center piece' of a Blue Angels collection I built in 1983-84, with all the other airplanes in 1/72, including the Hellcat, Bearcat, Panther, Cougar, Tiger, Phantom II, TA-4J, TV-2 and Connie that got flattened out a few days after this pic was taken, when a perspex panel that was supposed to keep little hands away fell onto them... I never completed Fat Albert after that... I only have 2 (blury) pics of those models...