This month''s Portfolio shows the fantastic work of Chuck Shanley (CRS). Make sure not to miss the two pages (!?) of this photo feature. There are aircraft models displayed I''m sure you never heard of!

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Thanks!

Thanks to Chuck for sharing his work. I really liked the diorama work, especially the downed Me262 and the "Mother and Child Reunion".


Cheers
Wiz

They're just Vintage :-) :-)
Thanks Jean-Luc for working your Magic to post my Portfolio.

wizard179 - Thanks, the key is really research (and a little help from friends), both of those Dios are based on photographs, as is the Pogo.

Hi Chuck,

Great selection of 'oddball' aircraft! It's nice to see that some modellers still build the older offerings.... Your selection shows no boundary in either genre nor scale!

Great work, thanks for sharing,

Frank

Clanky44 - Well I have to clear out this stash of mine somehow :-) :-)

Great looking models Chuck, and wonderfully presented by Jean-Luc.
The dios are extremely well presented and i could look at them for hours.
I see you have a thing for X-planes. I have been searching for a few of these in 1/48, and i have found they are usually quite old kits, sadly lacking in details ( Lindberg XF-91 a classic example, which I'm slowly trying to build :-) ).
Thanks for submitting and sharing a remarkable Portfolio.
Andy

Awesome work Chuck! And nice presentation Jean-Luc....
Some of those models is types that I've never heard of.....you
got to love the experimentation of the 50's and early 60's. :-)
Look for ward to see more work Chuck.

Andy - I do have a passion for the X-planes, but I often build what ever catchs my minds eye. I am currently focused on reliving some of my childhood memories (I actually saw the POGO and a few other X's fly). My stepfather worked for Northrop back in the 1950's and we used to make the rounds, when a new prototype was being shown off. Southern California was a hot bed of aircraft development back in those days. Guess that is where I got the bug to build aircraft to start with. I worked for McDonnell Douglas for a while, had nothing to do with the aircraft, but got to see plenty of them.

Thanks for the kind words.