Yes, There’s A Story Behind It – The 1968 Installation of a New ECM/EW System on USS Intrepid (CVS-11)
The sound you hear is me screaming as I fall down yet another rabbit hole - this time why I'm...
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) – 1952
I finally finished my third 1/700 model of the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), this time at it appeared off...
TBM-3 Avenger – VT-84 “White 313” – 1/72 HobbyBoss
I picked up one of the new HobbyBoss TBM-3 kits last year shortly after it came out and finally finished...
1/72 P-51D “Lou IV”
Few P-51 Mustangs are as familiar to modelers as the P-51D coded E2-C and known as Lou IV. It appears...
Captain Horatio Hornblower (the books and the movie)
I periodically come back to C.S. Forester's magnificent Hornblower series of novels. It's frustrating to read about Hornblower before he...
Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles – Edwin Mullins
The night that we got to Avignon last week I realized I knew virtually nothing about the Avignon papacy, so...
Forged: Writing in the Name of God – Bart D. Ehrman
Version 1.0.0 I was reading Bart Ehrman’s latest book when a reference in it to this one made me realize...
The Fisherman – John Langan
Version 1.0.0 John Langan’s The Fisherman is a horror novel that turns grief into cosmic dread. The novel was published...
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals – Ken Follett
I picked up this is very short book by Ken Follett at Shakespeare and Company in Paris last week after...
Grumman J2F “Duck” – 1/72 Airfix
One of the kits I picked up this spring was a vintage 1/72 Airfix Grumman J2F “Duck”. I built it...