I still have Monogram 1/48 scale PBY in my stash. This should be useful reference when I decide to build it ten years from now.
via Consolidated PBY Catalina Color Photographs Part 1 — Inch High Guy
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How I got hooked on WWII: the sequel
About a movie I had seen when I was a young kid in Montreal
I hope you won’t get hooked on My Forgotten Hobby.
So what’s the story behind that 1/64th scale B-17?
I was walking home from school during lunch hour in 1958. There was this men’s store, on the corner of Jean-Talon Street and De Lorimier Street in Montreal, which had model kits in its display window.
The men’s store is not there anymore.
2035 Jean-Talon Street
There were two display windows, one on the left and one on the right. I stopped cold and I was mesmerized by what I saw.
Not men’s clothes…
Model airplanes!
I had never seen a model airplane before in my whole life. This was one of them although mine in the men’s store display was silver.
I have found the box top on the Internet.
I even found this instruction sheet.
In 1958 this was an epiphany even though I had no idea what…
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Box Art – An Artist’s Perspective
Does Box Art really sell kits? This seems to be one of those logical things we all believe. In my personal experience, I have only bought one kit because of the box art and that was a long time ago. I am much more likely to buy a kit based on the contents of the […]
Box Art – An Artist’s Perspective
Model Airplane Maker… now on YouTube
I have been a ‘consumer’ of scale model related videos on YouTube for some years now. Some are great and some need work but all required some effort to get finished and published to the masses. I have been thinking about doing some how-to videos for a while. It only took a global pandemic and […]
Model Airplane Maker… now on YouTube
F4F-4 Grumman Wildcat
Revisiting the original My Forgotten Hobby
This is Post 499.
I started writing this blog on December 6, 2013.
It was just a way I had found to motivate myself in starting my forgotten hobby again, and build more than 50 model airplane kits I had in my stash.
I never intended to write that much, but I guess I got carried away. I should have known.
I owe a lot to Amateur Airplanes who is even more passionate than I am about building model airplanes and whose stash is a lot bigger than mine.
The F4F-4 Wilcat is my next project. It is somewhat special since I have been in contact with the son of Richard Harmer.
F4F-4 Wildcat of VF-5, over Guadalcanal circa August 1942
Monogram’s rendition of the Wildcat has been a part of my life since the 60s, and it still is. I can see myself in the early 60s…
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Introduction
I always like to read the first blogger’s post and then see what evolves…
Hi Everyone,
This is my very first blogger’s post, so few lines about me for the beginning. An introduction.
I was born in 1971 in Poland, graduated in 2005 at the Law and Administration Faculty of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, currently working as a Chief Legal Officer for one of the largest telecom companies in Poland, Emitel.
Wife Beata, 3 kids: Gabriela (18), Mateusz (15) nad Maksymilian (6). One cat (in fact it is rather my doughter’s) Misia (<1). We live in Cracow, but I’m sharing my professional life between Cracow and Warsaw, which is Poland’s capital city and business centre.
This blog will be focused on my hobby – scale modeling, to which I have returned some time ago, completely by accident and unexpectedly.
Hope you will enjoy this blog and I’m open for your feedback or comments. Stay tuned.
Best
Hubert
Under construction: Lockheed L-14H2 Super Electra | MPM 1:72
Can’t help myself not to reblog this…
This is a build I’ve started some time ago, one of my modeler’s dreams that comes true in a now uncommon scale in my workshop: 1:72.
This is mainly becouse the subject is hardly available in a larger scale, and if it is, the price is just unacceptable. At least four hundred zlotys (with the delivery) on Ebay for a twenty-year-old Classic Airframes kit is far too much. However, I came across an offer for almost one thousand zlotys. Wow.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, I’m going to build the ex LOT Polish Airlines SP-BPM in a camouflage she was wearing during the Battle of France in Spring 1940.
There are also three photos of her right wing. It was all that remained after she was (probably) damaged by the flak near Paris in June 1940 and force landed at Le Bourget, where she was finally…
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A Tour of the Secret Underground Workshop
Full Video Build Hawker Tempest Mk.V by Eduard (1/48)
Little did I know that a year later I would be buying it.
Tempest Mk. V Series 2 Eduard ProfiPACK edition
I was getting a little desperate lately since this model kit I had ordered was late.
I should have bought it years ago when it was readily available. Why I did not buy it then I will never know. Pierre Clostermann was my war hero when as a teenager I had read his book.
Buying Eduard Tempest would not have been an impulse buying. Last month I found it was still available from Model Hobbies in the U.K. I did not hesitate a second and ordered it. But it was late and stuck somewhere until this morning when I got notified that it was…
Delivered!
I was a bit apprehensive since my last order from Model Hobbies was left outside the door by the postperson. Anyone could have taken it…
So I quickly went to my mailbox down the street and sure enough the precious parcel was there.
I don’t intend to build it right away. This is why I bought the Weekend edition also to get some building experience before tackling the ProfiPack edition.
My Forgotten Hobby III 
