Category: Modeler of the Month

Bill Altice My interest in modeling goes back to my seventh birthday. An uncle, a model builder, gave me a stick model airplane. Armed with my modeling tool chest consisting of a dull, single edge razor blade and a tube of Duco cement, I launched my career which has lasted […]

Charles Landrum Charles Landrum is a defense consultant supporting the US Navy from which he retired after a 20 year career. A 1983 graduate of the US Naval Academy he spent the bulk of his naval career at sea serving on six ships of the Atlantic Fleet. He also served […]

Dave Chelmow My first ship model was an old yellow-box Model Shipways solid hull Dapper Tom, which had been sitting in my father’s attic. I built plastic models growing up, and tried to get back into them when I finished training and bought my first house. My workspace was in […]

Stewart Winn Like most of us, I began my modeling career when I was very young, starting with cardboard cut-out sets (remember them?) and then moving on to all kinds of other things, like Strombecker wood WWII airplane models, and old-timer automobiles (1919 vintage or older). But then high school […]

Ron Lewis CARS!! CARS, CARS, CARS! That’s what life was about as soon as I was old enough to drive. But cars, as they rolled out of Detroit, were not finished. Oh, no! They had to be chopped and channeled, “lakes pipes” added, nosed and Frenched, moon discs or “Lancers” […]

Tony Clayton I started model building in my early teens, mainly rubber-powered, balsa wood flying models from kits. Also, I built one small “jet” powered speedboat (about 6 or 7 inches long) which I tested in our bath tub. It almost flew from end to end of the bath.Like many […]

Sean Maloon I was born and raised in Maine. My modeling adventures started when I was six. My dad bought and helped me make two models, a F4U Corsair and a Coast Guard Cutter. My love of ship modeling had begun and I was hooked for life. As a teenager, […]

Kevin Ritten My Dad was the one who introduced me to the modelling hobby. When I was about 7 or 8, I happened to see my Dad working on a 1:144 scale model of a C-130 aircraft, and I thought it was pretty neat. I started out with snap-together aircraft […]

Marty Gromovsky I’ve been modeling as a hobby since 8 years old starting with an Airfix Spitfire. From then on, I’ve had a passion for modeling. My area of interest has always been aircraft and armor in plastic. It has only been the last 5 years that I’ve gotten into […]

Arthur Davidson (“Dave”) Baker III My first ship model was a Wallace Rigby card model of the battleship North Carolina built in the fall of 1945. The next year, I moved on to wooden warship models after receiving a book entitled How to Build a Model Navy and another book […]