What has been your biggest project?

It took me over a year to just about complete my Blue Angels display colection back in '84: 6 X A4F 1/48, on a huge base with ground equipment, pilots and crew, plus all the then available other Blue Angels mounts in 1/72 (one of each): F6F, F8F, F9F Panther, F9F Cougar, F11F, F-4, TA-4J, and their Connie. Before I could complete the Fat Albert, the whole lot got flattened at a show, by the perpex that should have protected the collection from the visitors....

Next biggest project was the 9 Alpha-Jets of the Patrouille de France (1/72), also on a large display base (1986).

Mine was building a series of ......




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Panthers (and you thought I'd say Shermans didn't you)

All in one go I built 7 Panthers. 1 from Italeri (Panther A), 2 from DML (Panthers F & II) and 4 from Tamiya (converted 1 to a Panther D and 3 versions of G). Tried 3 different ways of applying zimmerit (including using a soldering gun to burn the zimmerit into one of them), different camo schemes, different antenna
configurations, indy tracks on 2 of them and then some.

As far as logisitcs for something like this ..... time and patience. Ever count how many road wheels there are on 7 Panthers.

I've been building the 56th Fighter group and their support a/c in 1/72 scale since 1968. I have about 93 a/c so far. Built a few in 1/48 as well. It does take up a bit of room, but , hey, when you're building the Eighth Air Force, it takes a little extra room!!!

I started building Grumman Navy fighters in 1/72. i'm missing the F10F and the F2F. Then I backed that up in 1/48. That led to collecting VMF 115 a/c, which led to Mcdonnel a/c. Lots of collecting, little building.

My biggest project has been just trying to finish any model that I start.

Ray

I have sort of an ongoing project - someday I intend to build EA-6B Prowlers in as many different paint schemes as I can (ideally, a CAG bird from every squadron but that might be a hard go - unless I take the leap and start making my own decals!!!). I've already got a bunch of the Hasegawa 1/72 kits stockpiled, but instead of doing them all at once I like to do other projects in between. Other wise my short attention span would give me troubles!! :-D

I'm working on a six vehicle Canadian convoy, in UN livery. 3 M113s, 2 Iltis vehicles, and an M35 truck. I made the display case in shop class; 6 feet of plexiglass and pine board.

My biggest project - as far as size is concerned - surely 1/32 Matchbox Bf-109 E - the gift model from my wife which I came back to hobby about 15 years ago. The biggest project in general - 1/72 MIG jet family from MIG-15 UTI to MIG-31- I've still MIG-23, 25 and 31 to be build (and MIG-15 UTI, -15, -17, -19, -21, -27 and -29 are already finished) ! Regards ! Aleksander

Academy 1/72 C-97A Stratofreighter, still in mid paint, but I have a Revell 1/72 B-36 Peacemaker awaiting bench space.

I was tempted by their 1/48 B1B, but I'm going to have enough fun finding somewhere for the B-36!

Rob M.

I'm quite new to this forum. I thought you'd like to take a look at the below web page. It takes you to the Ft Crook IPMS out of Omaha Ne. We did a BIG project on the Martin Bomber Plant. Click on "club projects" to see some photos.

Neil

http://www.kithobbyist.com/IPMSFortCrook/

My biggest project is Revells 1/72 Corvette (ship) it is 3 feet long and about 8" wide. What makes this big is the DJ Parkins detail set I have for it, From the deck up is all brass and white metal. Its on hold right now as I teach myself to solder, its one thing to solder in one spot, but when you have 6" lengths to do its quite another.

A project I'm thinking of doing is building one kit of each vehicle in a Soviet motorized rifle division of the 1980's or 1990's. So far I've been able to buy and build a few kits, but still have a lot more to go before I'm done.

EEK! I was apparently reading too fast as I originally thought Kaleu said he wanted to do every vehicle in a motorized rifle division (as opposed to one of each!).... I about fell off the chair. Time to switch to decaf and READ SLOWER I guess....

Step away from the computer screen Karl .... you've obviously over-exposed yourself to the fumes of paint and glue that waft out out the computer every time someone visits FSM.

My biggest project was a 1/48 B-29 parked on a 4' x 4' diorama base. Taxiways, fighters in "revetments" tents and support equipment and personnel.