22 for me in 2025

[ghodges]

Here's the first 14 (not all in order)...

1/48 AMT F7F-3N Tigercat, OOTB. Built this in 22hr-45mins on New Years day as part of an on-line challenge.

1/48 Academy F-4J, OOTB.

1/48 3D printed (6 parts!) M-48 Patton tank, printed for me by fellow club member Charl Vivier. The Korean War tiger scheme was all hand painted.

In March I finally painted and decaled (over 100 of them!) 22 planes for the 1/540 USS Roosevelt I built in 2024.

1/48 Hasagawa F-104D with a resin interior.

1/32 ID vacuform A-7E Corsair II with resin cockpit, intake, canopy, and tires; and scratchbuilt wing folds. All markings were home made/painted/spares box.

1/48 AMT ES-3A Shadow (Viking) with a Black Box resin cockpit, Paragon resin wing folds, and Metal Details resin/PE engines.

1/48 CollectAire resin RB-66A Destroyer, OOTB.

1/144 Academy B-2 Stealth bomber, OOTB with the wheel wells and bomb bay closed and mounted in flight for my mother-in-law.

1/48 Falcon vacuform RB-57A Canberra with a scratchbuilt/spare parts cockpit, resin wheel wells and tires, and scratchbuilt landing gear. All markings were painted/spares box.

1/48 CollectAire resin B-57B Canberra, OOTB; all markings painted or from the spares box.

1/48 CollectAire resin F3D Skynight, OOTB; built as a Marine EF-10.

1/24 Revell Deal's wheels "Go Mad Nomad". OOTB.

1/48 ESCI F-4J Phantom with a resin cockpit and exhaust cans.

8 more to go in the next group!

 

Gil 

Edited December 31, 2025 by ghodges

[ghodges]

And the final grouping....

1/48 Wings vacuform O2U-1 Corsair with a scratchbuilt cockpit, replacement resin engine, and aftermarket Scarf ring and Lewis gun.

1/48 UMa AV-8B Harrier Plus II, OOTB.

1/144 Minicraft Boeing 727, OOTB.

1/32 Trumpeter P-51D Mustang with some 3D printed parts added.

1/48 Tamiya Ki-61 Tony, OOTB.

1/48 Monogram AV-8B Harrier with some 3D printed cockpit placards and a home-vacked windscreen to replace the cracked one in the kit.

1/32 Revell P-51D-5 with some 3D printed additions.

1/48 F-100C conversion built using the Cutting Edge resin set and a Monogram F-100D kit.

All in all I'm happy with the year, especially considering almost 1/3 of the builds were not injection molded kits (4 resin and 3 vacs)!

Here's wishing everyone a boatload of modeling FUN in 2026!

 

Gil 

Edited December 31, 2025 by ghodges

[VMF211]

All great builds Gil but that O2U is just stunning! Well done.

[wdedig]

Lovely to see a "Building Modeler"..Well done Year Gil...Cheers..Happy New Year