Recent content by David T. Okamura

"be vewy vewy quiet, i'm hunting peterbilts" Are you certain that a Peterbilt's not hunting YOU? ;-) (Movie trivia -- the license plates on the front bumper came from the truck's previous victims. It's a serial killer on wheels...) Here's some reference links...

From the photo you can also see the two-dimensional ventilators, crude anchor and oversized portholes. The thought of somehow reducing all those portholes and keeping them in alignment killed my plans to scan and photo-edit the part sheets.

Beware the Betexa Titanic. The paper is glossy and there are significant inaccuracies. For instance, the lifeboats have red undersides (should be all white), and the superstructure is actually a very pale blue-gray! I can't recall the deck detailing exactly, but I think it was rather crude...

That waving smilely is affecting the link. Try: http://www.kwmodel.boo.pl P.S. Don't let the company name fool you -- the first offering is a Bell P-39 D1 BE Airacobra, and judging from the gallery photos of the prototype, there's nothing "cartoon' about it.

I'd love to build the Grand Prix Paragon Panther racing version seen in the beginning of the film (before the accident, of course). I wonder if Uhu could follow-up on his Chitty model with this incarnation?

Thank you for designing these fantastic models. It was certainly a timely release -- NASA's "Battle of the Boosters" is the cover story in the February 2009 issue of "Popular Mechanics" magazine, and is reprinted here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4295233.html The...

In Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novelization of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (screenplay co-written with Stanley Kubrick), the dimensions of TMA-1 (the Mars monolith) were given in this passage: "One curious, and perhaps quite unimportant, feature of the block had led to endless argument. The monolith...

With only four thick wing spars and the bottom two wings attached directly to the fuselage, this model should be far easier to build in 1:72 scale than most other WWI biplanes with multiple spars. Wing alignment should be relatively simple. A very elegant model of a noteworthy aircraft --...

Vernon, Steve Lund and Bill Hathaway are members of the Ship Modelers Association. I've seen their ironclads, including the fantastic 1:32 scale USS Monitor. They held mock ironclad battles last spring at the opening of the new Monitor Museum. Not only did they transport these models by car...

Very fine choices. Would HMS Inflexible be in her original rig, or her final configuration? HMS Benbow was an oddity among the Admiral class, but this does provide a common hull for the other Admirals. Have you considered HMS Alexandra? That would be a good example of the center casement...

Actually most of the Hunley's rivets were flush with the hull surface to reduce friction. That submarine was FAR more advanced in design than we were led to believe all these years.

By the way, are you familiar with David Hathaway's Paper Shipwright site? Paper Shipwright - Card Models I love the early ironclad to pre-dreadnought era. Possible suggestions: S.S. Great Britain -- still preserved. HMS Warrior -- also a museum ship. Gloire -- the first seagoing...

Gorgeous work, Peter! I love all the extra work that you add to the bases.

Very impressive work! I experimented in reducing this model to 1:700 scale, and it's still about 16.5 inches long. That project's on indefinite hold since I wanted to open up the prominade and boat deck, and I was unsatisfied with the deck texture. Now I'm wondering about building this model...

Very impressive work! I experimented in reducing this model to 1:700 scale, and it's still about 16.5 inches long. That project's on indefinite hold since I wanted to open up the prominade and boat deck, and I was unsatisfied with the deck texture. Now I'm wondering about building this model...