Many of you have followed my photography since the begining of this site. Last year I constructed a runway diarama that I was pretty happy with, but over time its pretty much worn out! For a new diarama I chose the end of 24L at LAX and a couple of it's surrounding taxiways. Here's the main photo I'm using as inspiration:

I was pretty sucessful in…

My wife and I flew down to Atlanta (from Chicago) for the day on…

Pretty neat video of how American takes delivery of a new 737, I like how they do the paper work for it like buying a car. These 737s could be some of the last arcraft to be delivered new in that livery if you believe some of the reports out there that they are changing the livery for the 777-323ER, 787, and Airbus deliveries.

Many of you are familiar with the evolution of my photography since this site was created. I originally started taking close-up high focus pictures on a white shelf with as many bright lights as I could get to help improve the shutter speed with a large aperture. Looking for a more life like display I made a taxiway display on a 2' x 3' board with a turnoff and grass on both sides. Taxiway…

I have been interested in World War II history, specificly the European Theater, and even more specificly, the air war, since viewing the movie "Memphis Belle" in 1990. Over the years I have read a lot of great stories about the air war in Europe, including that of the Memphis Belle, but of that I thought was most interesting was that of the B-17G "Thunderbird".

First of all, if you have not seen the movie "Memphis Belle" find it, see it, it is great. The movie follows the first B-17…

The recently announced release by Herpa of an American Airlines DC-10-30, has sparked a basic topic for me - the American Airlines livery as it relates to modeling.

I have a basic and simple message to model makers everywhere:

If you can't make bare metal liveries BARE METAL, polished, or even chrome, then don't even bother. Please stop screwing around with silver paint or for Heaven's sake, gray. "Inflights DC-10 mold doesn't allow for bare metal" - then…

Nice video of a Midway MD-87 rolling out at LAX

If you get the chance, go to airliners.net and check out the historic past of the Fry Electronics 747SP based out of San Jose. She was with Braniff, Pan Am, and United! And still flies today! Click the link I've provided to see the pics:

747SP c/n 21992/447

started 3/27/11

Updated as of 12/18/12

As a collector, I maintain a list of models that I want to buy. I call it my "Top 50." I have a group that are top priority and I'm actively trying to find, and there are others, near the bottom that I would love to have, but there are so many ahead of them they don't garner much attention. The ultra-rare models supersede this list but have to be separate, because its not like I can just decide to get a rare model, it has to…

Recently, and after much anticipation and delay, Inflight200 released its new 747SP mold in three initial liveries. Braniff International, QANTAS, and South African were first out of the gate, with TWA and American to come in a few months. I purchased the Braniff International version and will note the highlights in this blog.

For those who may not have known, the SP was born out of a need for Pan Am to reach…

I gave up on the idea of building a 1:200 model airport because I have neither the time, patience, expertise, but most of all space to do it. But instead, thanks to THIS website I have a renewed interest in photography, modeling, and the two together. So I made a display today similar to what Gemini takes it's 1/400 pictures on, only 1:200 scale. Here are my construction pictures along with the finished result. I can't wait to use it with some natural light!…

The Museum of Science and Industry on the South side of Chicago has the 17th ever Boeing 727 on display. Here are some pics from my visit. Interestingly enough, throughout the day the aircraft used to cycle through gear-up/gear-down, and flaps up/flaps down. But it didn't move while we were there. Click on this link to see her last flight -> N7017U last landing at Meigs Field…

Here are my first 165 models of my 250 model (and growing) collection. As you can see my photography, diorama, and display has grown throughout time into the display that I currently have. If you click on a picture, you get a larger, clearer photo to pop up in a new window. Be sure to check out my new blog,MY ENTIRE COLLECTION - Blog 2, that I'll be updating with the rest of my…