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                        So what HAVEN'T you built?

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                        DoogsATX
                        • Member since
                          June 2010
                        • From: Austin, TX
                        So what HAVEN'T you built?
                        Posted by DoogsATX on Sunday, September 5, 2010 8:47 PM

                        Most of us tend to dabble in our little corners. Modern jets. WWII armor. For me, at least for the foreseeable future, that corner is WWII aircraft. My first model, more than 20 years ago now, was a snap-tite P-51D. I've built Corsairs and Jugs and 109s...but I was thinking today, and was absolutely stupefied not by what I've built, but by what I haven't built.

                        Here's, off the top of my head, a list of totally blindingly obvious WWII aircraft that I've never made:

                        • SBD Dauntless (well, until yesterday)
                        • F6F Hellcat
                        • TBF Avenger
                        • Any Japanese aircraft
                        • Any Soviet aircraft (rectifying that at this moment)
                        • Fw 190
                        • Hawker Hurricane 
                        • Ju-87
                        • Bf-110

                        I know there are probably a dozen or more others I've never touched, but these are such prominent, famous aircraft that I'm kind of dumbstruck I've never managed to get to them.

                        Anybody else got any gaping blindspots?

                         

                        On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

                        On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

                        Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

                         

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                        hutchdh
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Northern Virginia
                        Posted by hutchdh on Sunday, September 5, 2010 10:01 PM

                        - Spitfire

                        - F-100

                        - Soviet aircraft  (I have the new Eduard SU-7 added to my stash)

                        - WWI aircraft  (I have a number of them in my stash)

                        - F-86 (why have I never built one?)

                        Hutch

                         On the Bench: 1:48 HobbyBoss Ta152-C; 1:48 & 1:72 Hasegawa F-104G NATO Bavaria

                        In queue: 1:48 Academy F-4B & a TBD Eric Hartmann bird

                        Recently completed: 1:32 Trumpeter P-51B

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                        fermis
                        • Member since
                          January 2009
                        • From: hamburg michigan
                        Posted by fermis on Sunday, September 5, 2010 10:29 PM

                        There's just SOOOOO many!!!!

                        No regulars really stand out. Aside from three each of Russian, Brit, and Jap planes, everything has been U.S. or German.......aircraft.  The only thing missing from WW2 Navy singles would be a Bearcat.

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                        Goodness180
                        • Member since
                          August 2010
                        • From: Maine
                        Posted by Goodness180 on Sunday, September 5, 2010 10:30 PM

                        Yup.  I have been wanting to build a F-16 since i got back into modeling about 4 years ago and now its about the only one that is missing from my collection of modern day top 4 fighter jets i call them.  Being the F-14, F-15, F-18 and F-16.  I am currently working on a 1/48 F-14 Tomcat.  Just finished an A-10 warthog.  So Hopefully i will come around and purchase a F-16 kit.  1/48 scale.  Anyone suggest one?  Preferably i would like a single seater, but i will do the double seater as well at some point.

                        I am actually looking also into starting to get into WW2 Armour.  I almost bought my first WW2 sherman the other day and instead i bought my very first Air brush got a badger 200 i think it is.  Works pretty slick.  I was just working on doing some pre-shading on the Tomcat this morning and need to spray it tomarrow see how it comes out it will be my first time useing this technique. 

                        I have deffinatlly learned soooo much since joining this website.  I am so addicted its not even funny.....Big Smile

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                        philo426
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        Posted by philo426 on Sunday, September 5, 2010 10:48 PM

                        Despite my 30 plus years of model building I never built a P-51 or a F-4 Phantom.i just never was interested in  building them..Although the 1/48 Hasegawa  Phantoms look tempting!

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                        Tojo72
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Western North Carolina
                        Posted by Tojo72 on Monday, September 6, 2010 11:38 AM

                        I have no built F-14's or none in the stash.I wish Tamiya would do a Tomcat in 1/48

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                        tankerbuilder
                        • Member since
                          August 2008
                        Posted by tankerbuilder on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:45 PM

                        Hi, DOOGS ATX! I don,t usually build much armor anymore.I got spoiled by BANDAI,S 1/48 scale GERMAN ARMOR(with full interiors!!) so I have NOT built any 1/35 stuff at all! I don,t build planes much either.They(the planes)have to have some significance in my life and only in 1/48 scale!! I prefer my ships and cars.In those I haven,t built too many(3) wooden ships and no HIRO or POCHER car kits.I am trying now to build down my stash as I am not getting any younger. So I guess it,s safe to say armor and most planes.    tankerbuilder

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