I’ve added the Joe Johnston Concept B-Wing model page to the website. This was one of my first completely scratch built projects that I did. To say I’m happy with how it turned out would be an understatement. You can see the full write-up by clicking on the photo, or by clicking HERE.
I’ve added a detailed build log of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) model that I built a few years ago, from the 1/700 scale Academy Models kit. Check it out HERE.
An overnight work trip took me to Charleston last week. I wasn’t left with a lot of free time, due to the short nature of the visit, but I was able to grab some local barbecue and beer, and visit one historical artifact I’ve wanted to see for decades. This is one of the 11 inch Dahlgren guns salvaged from the Union ironclad USS Keokuk during the American Civil War. After the ship sunk following an attack on Fort Sumter, the Confederates salvaged both of her valuable guns and used them in the defense of Charleston for the rest of the war. This gun still sits on the battery in the south of Charleston. I wrote a piece about the salvage operation some years back, for the New York Times’ “Disunion” series that ran during the sesquicentennial of the war, which you can find linked on my WRITING page. I also built a model of Keokuk herself, which you can find HERE.
I’ve been working, off and on, on the Armory Models’ USS Monitor kit. The kit is a first: a 1/200 scale Civil War ironclad in injection molded styrene. Armory Models is a company based in Ukraine, that uses short-run molds to make unique model kits.
I’ll start posting occasional build updates as I get to them. In the meantime, I did a full in-box review of the kit for Modelwarships.com, which you can see HERE.
Continuing to migrate the content of my website from the old Dreamweaver to the new WordPress. I’ve started adding the Writing page content.
I’ve started adding items to the Model Making page. Very much a work in progress. Once all of the “classic” items are up, then I’ll start adding the dozen or so models I’ve finished over the past five years that I never added to the site.
This website looks a bit stripped-down at the moment. I’m in the process of cutting over from an old hosting company that wasn’t keeping up with the times. Truth be told, I wasn’t keeping up with the times, either, as the majority of the website was done via Dreamweaver. I’ve moved the WordPress bit to this new host, and will now start migrating all of the content from Dreamweaver to WordPress as time allows.
Stay tuned…
My day-job at Radii was mentioned in an article in The Architects Newspaper. The publication covers things… well… architectually related. The piece is specifically about the world of architectural model making in the New York City region, where Radii is a major player. The article can be read HERE.
I don’t normally post about what I do on my day-job as an architectural model maker. So many of our projects have NDAs associated that I just assume they all have them. By the time everything’s been released, I’ve moved onto the next project, or maybe even two projects beyond. For the 67-story Mercedes Benz Places now going up in Miami, though, the client is already talking.
Above is a shot of the 7/64″ = 1′ model that we at Radii, Inc. built. Part of a team, I helped with CAD design, 3D printing, and some painting on this project. There was an article on one of those trendy Miami news websites concerning the project, but it’s since been taken down, unfortunately.
After too long of upload and upgrade neglect, I’m looking at this website again. I’ve got a lot of stuff to add. This is a test of one plugin.
