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  • From: Katy, TX
Aggieman's 2016
Posted by Aggieman on Thursday, December 29, 2016 1:46 AM

Oh my, I am in a foul mood tonight.  My team just lost to a Big 12 team.  Nope, I have zero respect for that football conference.  And really zero respect for the team that we lost to given the antics of #10 at the close of the first half.

So in the hope of ridding my focus of this, I will turn my attention to my builds for this year. This year has not been a great one for me, losing my job in February and still looking for my next position as the year is closing out.  But it did give me a lot of time at the bench.

I count 19 builds.

I started this year with 4 kits at about 50% completion on the bench, all P-39 Airacobras. Not sure if I should count those as 2016 builds but they were completed in 2016, so I'll count them.

Accurate Miniatures 1/48 P-400 Airacobra

Eduard 1/48 P-39 Airacobra (which is actually a re-boxing of the Accurate Miniatures kit in their ProfiPack series)

Monogram 1/48 P-39 Airacobra

Revell 1/32 P-39D Airacobra (re-boxing of the Special Hobby kit with the Eduard BigEd set)

Next came a couple of the new Bandai Star Wars kits, a sand trooper and Boba Fett.

Back to WWII aviation, a Revell Heinkel He 111 P-1 in gigantic 1/32 scale.

The Heinkel proved to be really difficult to photograph.  I typically take all my photos on neutral colored paper atop my work bench but no matter how I turned it, I could not get it positioned on the work bench and keep all the back ground clutter out of the pictures. Turned out to continue to be a problem in my breakfast room as well.

Trumpeter 1/48 Vickers Wellington Mk. III

This one has since been donated to the Scale Model Gallery aboard the USS Lexington museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.

This one marked the first time I used Stynylrez primer, and that has paid off for many of the builds that followed.

Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SB2U-3 Vindicator

Italeri 1/48 Henschel Hs-123 A-1

Next came a quartet of F4F Wildcats.

Hobby Boss 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat

Monogram 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat (back-dated to a -3 and custom detailed interior)

Revell 1/32 F4F-4 Wildcat (some custom interior work as well)

Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat

Hasegawa 1/48 Kawanishi N1K1-Ja Shiden Type 11 Koh "George"

First use of the salt technique for the paint chipping.

Tamiya 1/48 Hyakushiki Shitei III Kai Air Defense Fighter "Dinah"

Back to Star Wars with the Bandai 1/48 X-Wing (moving edition)

I built this one with anticipation for Rogue One, which unlike the Aggies, did not disappoint.

Now on to my final builds for the year, a pair of F-86F Sabre jets.  The first was a Christmas gift for my dad, who had seen a photograph of the jet that I modeled and asked me to build that one for him. The second sports a rarely seen camouflage scheme that I found irrestible.

Hasegawa 1/48 F-86F Sabre "Skyblazers"

Monogram 1/48 F-86F Sabre

This one features custom painted yellow diamond over black stripes and custom decals, including an ode to the ill-fated character "Porkins" from Star Wars.

I think the Heinkel is my favorite, although I feel I did pretty good work on many of these. I was not so happy with the weathering on the sand trooper (should have been a lot dirtier), and I didn't think the Boba Fett kit was a very good one at all.  I enjoyed employing a new technique with the salt chipping.  And I feel like I had pretty decent coverage of the major powers of WWII, missing out on Italians and Russians.

Looking forward to 2017, to a new job meaning fewer builds and to employing yet another new (for me) technique, the dot weathering technique.

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  • From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia
Posted by Wirraway on Thursday, December 29, 2016 3:14 AM
Some lovely builds there- you have accomplished a lot this year !

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, December 29, 2016 4:30 AM

Really nice collection of builds there. Love the finish's, really hard to pick a favorite. Look forward to seeing more in 17.

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, December 29, 2016 8:25 AM

Ouch, I hope 2017 turns out a lot better for you. 

Some really beautiful builds there though. Definalty something to be proud of. Yes

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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    March 2013
Posted by patrick206 on Thursday, December 29, 2016 9:50 AM

Hey, Aggieman -

What a years worth of modeling, beautious indeed. Liked them all very much, the 111 and 123 especially. The 123 camo job will keep me awake tonight, scary just thinking of all that masking.

Thanks for the post and photos, Happy New Year, hope you land an ideal job really soon. (:>)

Patrick

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Thursday, December 29, 2016 3:14 PM

That is quite a roundup. Fantastic work overall. Beer

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Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!

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Posted by castelnuovo on Friday, December 30, 2016 1:52 AM

Some great work, love the He111.

Cheers...

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  • From: Oak Harbor, WA
Posted by Kolja94 on Friday, December 30, 2016 2:11 AM
Congratulations on a wonderfully productive year!

Karl

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Posted by templar1099 on Friday, December 30, 2016 5:53 AM

Wow, the one upside to being unemployed. Hope the new year brings you what you need.

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Posted by Bossman on Friday, December 30, 2016 9:11 PM

Nice job Aggie, 

I'm particulary fond of the desert scheme P-39 and the tri-color Wildcat.

No Russian P-39 ?

Quality builds there !

Chris

  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Katy, TX
Posted by Aggieman on Friday, December 30, 2016 9:42 PM

Bossman

Nice job Aggie, 

I'm particulary fond of the desert scheme P-39 and the tri-color Wildcat.

No Russian P-39 ?

Quality builds there !

Chris

 

Thanks. I actually built a Russian P-39 several years ago, which currently hangs among my Allied aircraft collection in my work room. I don't have any photos of that one currently available.

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Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, December 30, 2016 10:19 PM

If I had to pick a favorite it would have to be the 1/32 F4F-4 or Vindicator. Nice work all around! Beer

Steve

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  • From: Streetsboro, Ohio
Posted by Toshi on Saturday, December 31, 2016 3:00 PM

Great job on all of your fantastic builds.

Toshi

On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell

 

Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world.  Mrs. Toshi

 

 

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