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| Don letting it all out, at the controls of an MBT-70 in Fort Knox. |
Don is one of our more wide-ranging members with regards to interests. Willing to build just about anything, his
primary areas of interest are tank transporters, Soviet and American armour, and 1/32 aircraft. Don has a habit of embarking upon
major conversion or scratchbuilding projects that eventually, to the benefit of the rest of us, get released as injection-moulded
kits just as his work is about to be completed. Below is a small selection of Don's work.
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Before the Airfix kit was even a rumour, Don converted a Hasegawa 1/48 scale Spitfire Vb into this Seafire III.
Don's project for the club's last one-month build was this Tamiya T-34/76 Model 1942, built more or less out of the box.
Here is Don's latest 1/32 scale effort, Revell's excellent Hawker Hunter FGA.9. This kit was built basically out
of the box, with only a few details added to the cockpit.
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Long before DML decided to do a new Panther A, Don took the old Tamiya hull (quite accurate dimensionally, according
to him), roadwheels, sprocket, and idler from the DML Panther G, Model Kasten tracks, and a scratchbuilt turret,
mixed in some pyrogravure zimmerit and various details, and ended up with this Panther A from the Panzer Lehr Division
during the Normandy campaign.
A model twelve years and four incarnations in the making, and still not done! One of Don's labours of love is this
DML 1/35 T-72, which he is converting into a T-72A with the help of Tamiya roadwheels, Kirin tracks and mantlet cover, a heavily reshaped Kirin resin turret (from the M-84
kit), Commander's gill armour, and loads of elbow grease. After many revisions due to new information, this model is
finally ready for paint. Stay tuned for pictures of the finished product!
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