Welcome to The War Zone

Purpose / Background: My father, Charles has been interested in WWII as long as I can remember. I started building model WWII airplanes at about the age of 10. After 15 years of college, I earned the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Now with more time on my hands, the spark has rekindled to a flame in my model airplane interests.

This page will provide the plastic model builder, tips and tricks to all aspects of model building, specifications and background information on Fighter and Bomber planes of WW2, and pictures of My Models.

I have recently started a website devoted to WWII Armor click here.

WW2 Planes: Pictures, Specifications and Paint schemes

Plane	Service	Capacity
Focke Wulf F 190	German Luftwaffe	Fighter
Messerschmitt BF109	German Luftwaffe	Fighter
Messerschmitt ME163 Komet	German Luftwaffe	Interceptor
V-1 (Fieseler Fi103) Missle	German Luftwaffe	Missle
Ju-52 Tri Motor	German Luftwaffe	Transport
Ju-87 Stuka	German Luftwaffe	Dive Bomber
Messerschmitt BF110	German Luftwaffe	Fighter Bomber
Henschel HS 129B	German Luftwaffe	Heavy Bomber
Dornier DO 23	German Luftwaffe	Heavy Bomber
Dornier DO 217	German Luftwaffe	Heavy Bomber
Dornier DO 17	German Luftwaffe	Heavy Bomber
Arado AR234	German Luftwaffe	Reconaissance Bomber
Messerschmitt Me410	German Luftwaffe	Fighter Bomber
Heinkel He 111	German Luftwaffe	Heavy Bomber
Junkers Ju-88	German Luftwaffe	Medium Bomber
Messerschmitt Me262	German Luftwaffe	Fighter
Focke Wulf TA154 Moskito	German Luftwaffe	Nightfighter
B29 Superfortress	US Airforce	Heavy Bomber
B17 Flying Fortress	US Airforce	Heavy Bomber
P51D Mustang	US Airforce	Fighter
F82 Experimental Twin Mustang	US Airforce	Fighter
P47 Thunderbolt	US Army	Fighter
P38 Lightning	US Army	Fighter Bomber
P40 Warhawk	US Army	Fighter
P61 Black widow	US Army	Fighter Bomber
P26 Peashooter	US Army	Fighter
A36 Apache	US Army	Dive Bomber
B24 Liberator	US Airforce	Heavy Bomber
B25 Mitchell	US Airforce	Medium Bomber
B26 Marauder	US Airforce	Heavy Bomber
T28 Trainer	US Airforce	Trainer
F6F Hellcat	US Navy	Fighter
F4F Wildcat	US Navy	Fighter
TBF Avenger	US Navy	Torpedo Bomber
PBY-5 Catalina	US Navy	Seaplane Bomber
OS2U Kingfisher	US Navy	Recon
F4 Corsair	US Navy	Fighter
SB2C Helldiver	US Navy	Dive Bomber
SBD Dauntless	US Navy	Dive Bomber
C47 Dakota Transport	US Air force	Transport
SR71 Blackbird	US Air force	Recon/Interceptor
Mitsubushi Zero-Sens	Japanese	Fighter
Hayate or "Frank"	Japanese	Fighter
Kawanishi H8K Emily	Japanese	Recon / Bomber
Yak 7b	Soviet	Fighter
Yak 7V	Soviet	Trainer
IAR-80	Romanian	Fighter
Hawker Hurricane	RAF	Fighter
Supermarine Spitfire	RAF	Fighter
Hawker Typhoon MK1B	RAF	Fighter
Hawker Sea Fury	RAF	Fighter
Avro 683 Lancaster	RAF	Heavy Bomber
De Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito N.F.XIX	RAF	Medium Bomber

My 1/48 scale model collection. Mostly Revell Monogram kits.

Model Building Tips and Tricks.

Painting your plastic airplane.
Finishing and weathering your plastic airplane.
Action display techniques for your plastic airplane, tank tracks, etc.
Displaying your plastic airplane.
How the Pros create models from scratch, Advanced Techniques.
Spray Painting your plastic airplane.
Basic Tools required to build your plastic airplane.
Advanced Models How to build life like Intermediate models.
Diorama How to make life like scenes to display your model.
Calculator Scale model Calculator: JAVA Script enabled
Questions, 10 most popular plastic modelers questions answered here
Brush How to care for your brushes
Steel Finishes How to obtain the shiny steel surface on your B29, B17, P38 Lightning, etc..
More wheathering More wheathering tip and techiques, Scratches, drybrushing....
Techniques tip and techiques for holding small parts during spraying
Model master conversion reference chart
Painting Canopies ,figures, applying decals and brushing methods for your plane
Airbrush Lessons ,22 airbrush lesson to master a dual action airbrush
Painting a face , A brief overview of painting a figure face.
RLM conversion Chart, Testors, Humbrol, Grunze referenced
Parafilm M, How to use this masking material.
FS Color Charts, Great cross-reference for pre WWII to 1964.
Putty, How to putty and sand your model
Masking Wheels A link to the IPMS site.
Painting Tank Tracks for the armor modeler
Model Master Color Charts (PDF Format)
The Complete Future by Matt Swann: Everything you needed to know about Future.

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Links, Gaming and Airshow Pictures

Links to other great sites.
Gameing: Great links to WWII games for the PC.
MAPS Air museum: See over 25 pictures of great WW2 planes here.

 

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Site History
Revision 72: 09/05/2003: Added Liberator and Mustang and Lightning and and Tiger tank picture to Armor Site. Revision 71: 07/11/2003: Added Project Hawker Sea Fury F.B. MkII
Revision 70: 06/30/2003: Added Hawker Sea Fury
Revision 69: 06/26/2003: Added Project F82-E Twin Mustang
Revision 68: 06/03/2003: Added Project SBD-1 Dauntless Pearl Harbor Version
Revision 67: 05/15/2003: Added Project Bf109T-2
Revision 66: 04/18/2003: Added V1 Missle
Revision 66: 04/15/2003: Added Project AR234B-2 Blitz Bomber
Revision 65: 03/18/2003: Added Project A36 Apache. and Model Master Color Charts and Arado Ar234
Revision 64: 03/05/2003: Added Project ME163 Komet Interceptor.
Revision 63: 02/27/2003: Added A36 Apache
Revision 62: 02/07/2003: Added Project ME410B Heavy Fighter.
Revision 61: 01/26/2003: Added Project PBY Catalina.
Revision 60: 01/01/2003: Added Project Yak-7V. revised Yak-7V Page and added Masking Wheels & Painting Tank Tracks & revised Catalina Page.
Revision 59: 12/29/2002: Added Yak-V and My Yak7V 1/48 scale Model
Revision 58: 12/20/2002: Added Project Junkers JU88A-4 Medium Bomber
Revision 57: 12/14/02 Revised Junkers Ju-88
Revision 56: 11/19/02:Due to excessive bandwidth, had to separate my models to separate site click HERE
Revision 55: 11/19/02:Added Romanian IAR80 fighter and My IAR80 Model.
Revision 54: 11/10/02:Added Project BF110 Wespen page and Putty and sanding page. Revised Corsair page
Revision 53: 10/13/02:Added TA154 Moskito and TA154 Moskito Model Page
Revision 52: 09/22/02:Added Project Tamiya Hayate (Hurricane) or Frank Japanese Fighter

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