2022 Build Review: When Double Builds Go Bad
2021 was such a good year. I finished 13 models – eight 1/72 aircraft, a 1/72 88mm gun, and four...
Roosevelt’s Navy: The Education of a Warrior President, 1882-1920 – James Tertis de Kay
This was a magnificent little book. It focuses on Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to...
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay – Craig L. Symonds
There hasn't been a comprehensive biography of Fleet Adm. Nimitz since Craig Symonds' mentor E.B. Potter wrote Nimitz in 1976...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War – Paul Kennedy
This was my second read of this interesting little book. Kennedy studies five problems that the Allies faced in World...
On the Double Build Road Again …
This time it's a 1944 and 1969 USS Hornet (CV/CVS-12). The former is pretty much an out of the box...
2021 Modeling Review – Four Essexes, Nine Aircraft and a 88mm
I posted the full analysis of my 2021 builds on my iModeler page - https://imodeler.com/2022/01/2021-modeling-review-four-essexes-nine-aircraft-and-a-88mm/
1/700 USS Randolph (CV-15) – August 1945
https://imodeler.com/2022/01/1-700-uss-randolph-cv-15-august-1945/
Leppla/Liska “Sail 12” SBD Dauntless – Battle of the Coral Sea
https://imodeler.com/2022/01/leppla-liska-sail-12-sbd-dauntless-battle-of-the-coral-sea/
Rereads: “Dune”, “Declare”, “Battle of Britain” and “Overlord” on Audible
I have recently noticed a tendency to reread books that I think I might enjoy - and more often, to...
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil – The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II – Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter
This is a digital reissue of a 1953 book issued by the Naval War College Press that tells the story...