Kicking off a Special Feature on the Plastic Model Dojo: A PMM Special

About this episode

Ed Bareth returns to discuss his journey of recovery and his latest model project aimed at awards-level judging.

He beat a brutal stretch of chemo, got the all-clear, then asked the question every craftsperson quietly fears: do the hands and the mind still work the same way? Our friend Ed Bareth is back, and he’s turning that question into plastic, paint, and proof with a 1/32 Trumpeter Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless built for awards-level judging. We dig into what “national quality” really demands in large scale model aircraft building, where every shortcut shows and every improvement has to be clean. Ed wal...

People in this episode

Guest: Ed Bareth

Topics covered

• model building
• scale models
• craftsmanship
• chemo recovery
• aircraft modeling

Keywords

• plastic models
• model aircraft
• national quality
• chemo recovery
• scale modeling

Mentioned in this episode

Products: 1/32 Trumpeter Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless

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