John Carlson
Clayton, North Carolina
John placed seat belts, a fire extinguisher, and a canopy release mechanism to improve the verisimilitude of his Tarangus 1/48 scale SK 61 Bulldog. Decorated for the Swedish air force, the two-seat trainer wears splinter camouflage airbrushed with Real Colors lacquers using John’s hand-cut masks. He lightly weathered his prop plane with pastels and landed it on a craft-store base he adorned with Sweden’s three crowns.