2011 Wrap-up - What Made It Off Your Bench?

Thank you BSY. The Swift boat was certainly more fun to do. The build was so simple that most of the work was in finishing.

Stik nice pieces there i missed to see during the year, love the swif boat

WOW, a real treat to see the fine work put out by you guys...

Stik, Trey, Fermis.  Thanks for dropping your stuff in here.  What a treat to see this kind of work and the variety you guys delve into.  What a Forum Gallery we've put together here.  Everyone should be proud of the work shown in this thread.  I hope the new year will bring another flood of great work.  Rick

Ok, I have now completed my last model for 2011 and can now post my finished builds for this year. While I did complete many builds this year, a good portion of them were started in 2010 or before... and my 2011 New Years modeling resolution of starting fewer new builds until I made a good dent in the "in progress" builds paid off. On to the builds...

My first completed build of 2011 was this Fujimi 1/48 AH-1E TOW Cobra

and then in no particular order... Italeri 1/48 OH-58A

Dragon 1/350 Soviet Alfa Class SSN

Dragon1/350 USS Dallas SSN

Airfix 1/350 HMS Torbay SSN

Revell 1/48 F-84E Thunderjet

Revell Germany (ex Aurora/Monogram) box scale USS Skipjack SSN

Tamiya 1/35 Kfz 251/1C

Otaki/Arii 1/48 FW-190 A8/R1

Tamiya 1/35 Centurion Mk.3

Monogram 1/48 F9F-5

Tamiya 1/35Renault UE Armored Carrier

Revell (ex-Monogram) 1/48 PCF Swift Boat

Academy 1/35 M151A1C

ESCI 1/35 LAV C2

and my last completed build for 2011, Dragon's 1/35 Panzer Mk III H

Happy New Years folks!

TYEY, fermis, those really are some stunning builds. And like otehrs, not only am i amazed at the quility but also the number. How do you guys get them out so fast.

Stunning builds, just stunning

tigerman

So many great builds guys.

Vance, Manny acts like you never build, but you've shown way more then he.

No worries tigerman - I am an admitted slacker, and need the good feldmarschall to kick me in the tailfeathers from time to time! Oh, and I should be finishing off one more little kit for the end of the year. (Technically, decals probably won't go on until tomorrow, but I'll be counting it anyway! ) Hughes MD500 in Israeli markings, my first chopper. Can't get over how tiny this thing is!

Thanks all for the great comments its much appreciated and very humbling! Hope everyone has a great New Year ! I'm looking forward to some great G/B's in the coming year, It already looks like we  have a bunch of really good ones lining up! Really is great to have a bunch of talented builders to learn from as well as share ideas and techniques with! Thanks again ,cheers Trey

Dayum... Lotta pictures..

Went to the grocery store and grabbed a bag of chips and a half-gallon of Coke while they were down-loading, lol..

Anyway, to answer the question of what made it off my bench...

A LOT of WIPS...  All are awaiting the diorama bases..

But there were some of these too..

Since I only build dioramas, the process is quite slow...  But the Ju87 is almost finished, but I'm still building figures for it, as well as a number of them for a Spitfire, Tigercat, B-29, and also some dios in the Armor category are shaping up finally, after three years of waiting for the stories to form..

Problem is, I tend to get bogged-down in details, and am suffering from an accute case of AMS... 

BUT... I have  a Plan... P-A-L-N...

Come Monday AM, I'm sweeping off the bench, one giant toss, and starting FRESH with ONE kit, ONE diorama planned, and will do nothing that will make me stray from my original PLAN, and work from Dusk  'till Dawn, seven days a week, until it is DONE...

The "Star" of the diorama is a Monogram 1/35th M48A2 Patton from Bravo/1-69th Armor Regiment (Tank B1-6, IIRC), at a firebase near the Laos/South Vietnam border, 3 March, 1969, which is providing fire-support for a Special Forces/Montagnard Camp just moments after a North Vietnamese PT-76 hits a mine about 1500 meters outside the wire..

Taking a bit of artisic license with this one, since the battle was at night (AAR was two PT-76s and one BTR-50 destroyed), and they were up against the NVA 202 Armored Regiment, but I'll be showing this one in daylight, rather than put it in a shadow-box... I've built a lot detail into the tank that I don't wnat hidden from view.

Thanks everybody!

I must say, I am truly addicted to this stuff! Finished more this year, than in the previous 5 combined(31) (21 of them from last year, and 9 the prior year). Saved me from a bad road!

I only work 6 months of the year, and really bust my *** so we can get through the 6 I have off. Think I only finished 4-5 in those working 6 months.....I love rain days!!! Life is AWESOME!!!

OK Fermis you obviously have a serious case of OCD! Wow!

Trey, Beautiful work as well.

I swear you two must be insomniacs who are at home full time... It would take me a couple or three good building years to turn out that amount of such quality work...

TREY, FERMIS,

Show offs

You guys are machines. Heck if I built like you two I would have hope of geeting through my stash. FANTASTIC work!

Hard to pick my favorites of your builds but I would have to say I like the different...

Trey...love the Katana.

Fermis...love the Dino Dio.

Trey...fermis...WOW. The way you both match output to quality boggles the mind. Two days into my P-47s and I haven't glued or painted a single piece. You all would have the cockpits done, at least.

tigerman

My God Fermis! I thought trey couldn't be beat and you averaged a build every week and a half!

i built a similar number only in some year

hat off for the sb2 and the mavis

My God Fermis! I thought trey couldn't be beat and you averaged a build every week and a half!

ruddratt

I love our high-speed, but hey, dial-up ain't dead yet - it's still out there, along with phones that are used soley for audible communication - remember those?

what? Like rotary phones?

I love our high-speed, but hey, dial-up ain't dead yet - it's still out there, along with phones that are used soley for audible communication - remember those?

dial-up....who the heck still has dial-up?

OK, so what's the problem? ( I mean, besides the one that those with dial-up internet must be having.) 

Hello,

 My name is Fermis.....and I have a problem.

                                  ....Seriously!

1/48 Great Wall FW-189

1/72 ICM SB-2

1/48 Airfix EE Lightning

1/72 Academy P-51B

1/48 Accurate Miniatures P-51A(F-6)

1/48 Revell (??? bagged kit, no instructions) F4U-5N

1/48Hasegawa BF-109E

1/48 Tamiya BF-109E

"Jurassic Park" dino

1/48 Otaki BF-109F

1/48 Fujimi BF-109F

1/72 Revell(new) B-17G

1/24 Airfix BF-109F

1/72 Hobby Boss A-7P

1/144 Revell U-boat Type VII

1/72 Encore Mig 3

1/72 Revell Schnellboat

1/48 Eduard Hellcat

1/72 Hasegawa "Frances"

1/72 Testors F-86

1/144 Trumpeter "Gato"

1/350 AFV Club I-58

1/144 Trumpeter "Mavis"

1/48 Tamiya(old) "Zero"

1/48 Tamiya(new) "Zero"

1/48 Hasegawa "Pete"

1/350 Bronco Chen Yuen

1/48 Hasegawa "Tony"

1/48 Hasegawa "Nick"

1/72 Hobbycraft F-86

1/72 Hasegawa M.S.406

1/72 Hasegawa FW-190A

1/72 Academy FW-190D

1/72 Pro-Modeler BF-109F

1/48 Hasegawa "Tojo"

1/48 Fine Molds "Judy"

1/72 Hasegawa Toyota starter truck

1/72 Hasegawa Isuzu fuel truck

1/72 Academy T-6

And that is 39!!!!! Told ya'll I had a problem. Still a couple days left in the year and I could easily hammer out another, but enough is enough!

good updates here a

nice trey's heavy industries show this year you built half luftwaffe out of the japanese aviation

Great looking builds everyone! Heres my finished builds. 1/48 eduard Bf110

1/48 Greatwall FW189

1/48 Pegasus V2

1/48 Testors Me163

1/48 Hobbycraft Ar234

1/12 Tamiya Katana

1/48 Revel Ju87

1/48 Trumpeter Sparviero SM79

1/48 Tamiya Fiesler Storch Fi156

1/48 Monogram Av-8B

1/46 Revell Do217 w/Koster N2 conversion

1/48 Amtech Hs123A-1

Major Tushio Sakagawa 25th Sentai Hankow ,China 1944 . From what I've read the Japanese did'nt officially keep scores of aerial victories but they say this pilot racked up 40 confirmed victories

The Raiden was modelled after Lt Yoshihiro Aoki 352 grp Kanoya Air Base 1945

The reference pic I had of the Ki-84 Frank identified it as being painted pale grey and being flown with HQ Chutai 29th Sentai on Taiwan(Formosa) summer of 1945

The Ki-61 Tony was out of the box decals and it was all in Japanese so I do'nt know the info on the markings

The Ki-100 same basic airframe as the Tony but of course with the radial powerplant. Again the unit info was in Japanese so solly no translator

N1k1-J Shiden Kai,found it fascinating that this aircraft developed from a mid-wing centerline float plane. This one was flown by Lt Takashi Oshibuchi,some debate on the stripe color on the fuse I've seen it in white as the same aircraft?

Ki44 Tojo not sure if its true but from what I've read not a single copy of this airframe survives today. One source accounts that on 19 february,1945 a small group of these attacked 120 B-29's downing 10, 2 reportedly by ramming.

and last but not least the Zeke and my first feeble attempt at the salt method so be kind please

 1/48 Monogram Typhoon

1/48 Dragon Fw190A-8/R11

and to end the Year 1/48 Hasegawa Bf109G-2 Black '13'

Hope all have a great New Year Cheers Trey

Looking at photobucket, I got more done than I thought I did.  OK the USS Enterprise took up most of the time for the others but still, got more finished than I remember.

1/350 Tamiya USS Enterprise

1/48 AMT A-20 Havoc

1/48 Minicraft C-172 Floatplane

1/48 Tamiya Bf-109E Battle of Britain Dio

This next one is iffy.  Can't remember when exactly I finished it, either late 2010 or early 2011, so I just say for the purpose of this thread 2011:

1/48 Academy P-38F 'Glacier Girl'

fermis

Miss Owl's been busy! Love the Rivet Joint and Berkut(Ace Combat markings woulda been nice!)

thanks fermis.  And I assure you, as soon as I can figure out home-made decals, I'll be making a whole fleet of AceCombat planes!

I only managed to get one off this year. I need to get my priorities straight! Happy New Years folks! Here's to building more in 2012!!

Excellent page!

Really dig them little Hawks alfaspud

Miss Owl's been busy! Love the Rivet Joint and Berkut(Ace Combat markings woulda been nice!)

Don, that staggerwing is beautiful. Up til about 5/6 years ago, we had one just like it at my local airport, beautiful plane to watch!

Well, decided to try from scratch - didn't have much luck copying.

That is a Heller Reale de France

Roden Beech staggerwing. I bought first version, so those civil decals are inkjet homemade.

Scratchbuilt Pietenpol

Revell Kurtis-Kraft midget

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