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Paul Killins
Signal Hill, California
Paul and his brother, Dan, grew up in Houston and spent many hours aboard the USS Texas museum ship. In honor of the time they spent together, Paul built a Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Texas to represent the battleship as it appeared off Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, in support of the D-Day invasion for Dan. Paul improved the kit with Master metal 14-inch and 5-inch gun barrels, 3D-printed antitaircraft guns from Black Cat, photo-etched metal details from Eduard, radar units from Infini, Master whip antennas, and L’Arsenal OS2U Kingfishers. To finish it, he used acrylics from Testors Model Master, Tamiya, AK Interactive, Italeri, and Mission.