Hi all, details for this ongoing build can be found one post down.

THE  FLEET AIR ARM &  FLEET  AIR WING  GROUP  BUILD  ROLL  OF HONOUR:

These are the models built by the members of the Fleet Air Arm Group build 2007-2008 and the Fleet Air Wing Group Build 2008-2009.

They are symbols of the friendships and laughs we've had sharing our hobby. We hope you enjoy them.

First up,

Ruddrats 1/48 hasegawa Sea Hurricane. The very first completed build on this thread.

Next, our much admired X/O Daywalker with his 1/48 Airfix Supermarine FR.46 Seafire. This one was a competition winner and I supplied the winsdsheild.

 

This Fulmar was done by Razordws, it was the 1/72 Vista kit and turned out rather well.

This firefly was done by harv73,

This is dcaponeII's excellent Gannett,

 From our FAW GB is Daywalkers superb F4U-1D Corsair

 

 These were build by or very own "Admiral Rick" Rjkplasticmod..........simply beautiful.

 

OK, my stuff. All built by Tango1. The one I am most fond of is the Sea Harrier FRS.1-it made it to the pages of FSM magazine.

 

This is GTZ's beautiful Hellcat, I think you would all agree it doesn't get much better than this...

Here are the first finished works from our 2008-2009 build, doesn't get much better than this..... all of these aircraft in the colours of the United States Navy, all very well done and a real credit to this forum.

This is Sfcmac's 1/48 Grunman Goose, painted and finished beautifully.

NewOldGuy graced us with a lesson on how to weather a Tomcat-this F-14 hasegawa kit looks like it just came up from the hanger deck! Very well done indeed!

Jacob gave us his Wildcat in the unusal Alantic scheme, we loved this one!

The Brilliant Bondoman graced our pages with this beautiful 1/72 Hasegawa  Curtis SOC-3 Seagull, absolutely stunning!

OK, here's mine for 2008-1/48 Hasegwa F-8J Crusader. This was built as a tribute to all my friends here whose names are on the dispaly base plaque. The theme here reflects the comraderie of all those here.

I also had time to build the challenging 1/48 Hobbycraft Seafury, this one in Canadian markings.

 

Here from our 2009 GB is Jeaton01 with his beautiful Silver Cloud 1/48 Seafang.

Another one from 2009, this time its Spike190 with his stunning 1/48 Eduard Hellcat II-this one is just beautiful.

Next up, what can only be decribed as this forums hardest working model maker, yep-its Aaron McNeal with  his 2008-2009 show case.........

Revell 1/32 Corsair.

Special Hobby 1/48 Albacore Mk I

Monogram 1/48 Kingfisher

 

Revell 1/32 Wildcat.

 

Hasegawa 1/48 Sea Hurricane

Special Hobby 1/48 Blackbun Skua and Roc.

 

Lindberg 1/48 Gladiator modified into the Malta Sea Gladiator "Hope"

Aaron has built some truly wonderful models and he is still builing more! He's a kit-building machine!

 

This was one our stars in 2008-2009, this is Richie's  superb Fairy Sworfish in 1/72 scale......yes, thats right 1/72! Outstanding work!

More from Mr. McNeal.....this is the very nicely done Fonderie Minatures 1/48 Ventura!

Here are some more, first up Daywalkers now famous Corsair Nightfighter which has graced the hallowed pages of our very own FSM magazine!

Next up is Jeaton's RAF Coastal Command B-17 in 1/72...........

Here is Sean's 1/48 Monogram Devastator,

And yet another one from the ledgendry Aaron McNeal.............a Trumpeter 1/32 scale Swordfish!

And joining us from our "better late than never" branch is our Lt. Razordws with his incrediblely well done  1/72 Tamiya F4U-1A.

As a sideline for another GB, Tempest Johnny produced this fine AMT F7F-3 Tigercat in 1/48. It is marked as a USMC bird.   Superb!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice one Scott! Look forward to finding out what you will end up building!

Scott,

I understand that Hobbycraft do one in 1/48. I can't tell what its like though as I've not built it myself. I'll see what I can dig up from over here. 

TANGO 1 wrote:

Scott, I understand that Hobbycraft do one in 1/48. I can't tell what its like though as I've not built it myself. I'll see what I can dig up from over here.

I've been looking on the net and can't find that kit, it is out of stock at my usual online stores.  I'm going to swing by my LHS on the way home in the off chance they have one on the shelf.

espins1 wrote:

TANGO 1 wrote: Scott, I understand that Hobbycraft do one in 1/48. I can't tell what its like though as I've not built it myself. I'll see what I can dig up from over here.  I've been looking on the net and can't find that kit, it is out of stock at my usual online stores.  I'm going to swing by my LHS on the way home in the off chance they have one on the shelf.

Scott,

I was planning on building a Sea Fury, also, preferably in 1/48th (I don't see small parts so well anymore, so anything smaller would be a real challenge); I checked out eBay and, yes, there were a couple of Sea Fury's in 1/48th. Unfortunately, the Hobbycraft kit appears to be a reboxed Zhengdefu; however, the one Zhengdefu kit they have on eBay also shows photos of the actual sprues, so you can see what kind of quality you're dealing with. I may bid on the Hobbycraft kit myself, unless you beat me to it! 

Thanks for the link Tango, I like what he's done with that kit, looks great!  

SoD Stitch, I had forgotten about e-bay.... I'll hold off on bidding on anything though so we're not bidding against each other. 

There's one on e-bay in the UK too. Comes with a nice A/M decal sheet too. Mmmmmmm......

I'm really excited about this particular GB. Aside from the fact that it's my first, I've also been on a biplane kick for quite some time now, so the Swordfish was a perfect choice for me. I bought the kit when it was first released, and was also able to purchase the Tamiya PE for it. Come the month of April, I'll be ready!

G'Day Tony!

Good to have you on board, join in whenever you're ready.