A year's worth from a slow builder

[Chris Bucholtz]

This year was pretty productive for me - partially because I went back to the shelf of doom and rescued a couple of projects!

First, I finished up this Arma 1:72 P-51B, in the colors of my friend Woodie Spears' Mustang. Yes, he inherited Charles McGee's "Kitten" after it went through depot maintenance, where it received its fillet on the tail, and where depot personnel exposed the serial number on the tail by removing a patch of red on each side. 

Next came this 1:20 diorama of a Smilodon family in 1:20. All the cats were 3D printed; the cubs are modified modern lion cubs. The foreground cub, I came to learn, was commissioned originally to go with Franz Werra's Bf 109! 

Next, I converted a Monogram 1L72 F7F-3 into an F7F-3N, using Cobra Company parts and a bunch of scratch-building. This was the first F7F to score a victory in the Korean War. 

 

This is Airfix's early Hurricane Mk. I in 1:72, rescued after six or seven years on the shelf. The figures are Peddinghaus - 3D-printed of course. The plane depicted is George "Grumpy" Unwin's plane from the Battle of France; I made the serials on my printer since the Xtradecals sheet used the wrong font. 

Another shelf-of-doom escapee - IBG's CMP 1:72 C15 15cwt truck converted into a CMP C60L three-ton truck. Everything aft of the spare - and the entire frame - is scratch-built; wheels came from the IBG Holmes Breakdown kit. The cover is simply toilet tissue, cut to shape, wet with diluted white glue and painted when dry.

 

 

And finally, Special Hobby's 1:72 Spitfire F. Mk. 21, with some Master Models cannon fairings and Barracuda wheels. This plane made it into World War II barely; this example was shot down strafing boats off the coast of Holland in April 1945, but the pilot was rescued. 

Six? Isn't that enough? 🙂

[PaulBradley]

Yes, when they are of such quality! Happy New Year, Chris!

[ghodges]

Good year with a great variety of builds too!

 

Gil 

[Mark Deliduka]

With such masterful work along with the additional mods you did perfectly, that is an outstanding and highly respectable lineup!