Fighter Models Reactivated and Returned to Duty

We first shared Whiplash's hand crafted wooden Wing Commander models several years ago. After recently retrieving the ships from storage, he's now embarking on a new mission to retrofit and update the designs with the model-building expertise he's gained in the ten years since they were first put together. Right off the bat, his never-before-seen Paktahn bomber joins the fray. Soon rework on the Hellcat begins!

The family has finally been re-united! After a decade gathering dust at my parents' house, I finally took the plunge and moved my entire model collection to my own place. There are many, many others I won't show here, since you guys will be interested in the Wing Commander stuff. So, without further ado, here they are:

You'll see they've been joined by a new member: The mighty Paktahn. I never posted pictures of it before since it is still unfinished. Hopefully that will be rectified soon.

I'm a long time model builder. I started off with plastic kits and I've since progressed to scratch-building my own designs from balsa wood. Building something from scratch as opposed to using a model kit obviously means you have to draw your own plans to work from. This involved hours of taking measurements from the game manuals and even from in-game screenshots to get the look right.

Enjoy!