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12:12 PM - Placed order with Sprue Brothers. 12:33PM - Received a shipping notification via e-mail. 21 minutes from order to ship. Talk about fast!

The 1st Annual Doogs' Models Fall Giveaway has come and gone...and it's time to announce the winners! Before I do, though, I have to say that this giveaway couldn't have…

And with that, the Fall Giveaway is wrapping up! I'm in the process of tabulating the winners, but in the meantime, here are the top vote-getters among the giveaway kits...…

A lot has changed since I kicked off this blog a little over a year ago. There's been a lot of pain, and a lot of bumpy roads, but when…

On November 1st, Doogs' Models kicks off its first ever kit giveaway. Two lucky winners will receive two fantastic kits, voted on by you, the readers! In the lead up to…

As I've written before, Tamiya's 1/32 P-51D Mustang is an astonishing kit on most every level. But no kit is perfect, and the big Tamiyastang's biggest flaw is easily its…

In the early days of World War II, the U.S. Navy realized that it had need of a land-based bomber force to support its operations, particularly in the roles of anti-shipping and anti-submarine warfare. Of course, the USAAF wanted its bombers all to itself – most famously Hap Arnold’s hoarding of B-17s to support the 8th Air Force’s daylight bombing campaign.

Eventually, a deal was struck. The Navy would give up its new Boeing PBB-1 Sea Ranger seaplane, leaving the Consolidated PBY Catalina to soldier on and freeing up Boeing to develop the B-29 Superfortress. In return, the Navy would receive a number of Consolidated B-24 Liberators, Lockheed B-34 Venturas, and North American B-25 Mitchells. These were redesignated according to the Navy’s logical but annoying naming scheme, where an aircraft was labelled by mission type, model number, and a manufacturer identifier. The B-24 became the PB4Y-1 – marking it as the fourth Patrol Bomber contracted from Consolidated.

By the time the first Mitchells (PBJ-1s in Navy parlance) became available in 1943, the Navy was already happy with its PB4Ys, so the Marine Corps happily took on the smaller Mitchells as its own. (more…)

On November 1st, Doogs' Models kicks off its first ever kit giveaway. Two lucky winners will receive two fantastic kits, voted on by you, the readers! In the lead up to…

There are exactly three aircraft for which I am determined to build an example of every major variant. The first is the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. The second, the North American…