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What has been your biggest project?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 24, 2003 3:14 PM
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.
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Posted by shermanfreak on Saturday, May 24, 2003 2:59 PM
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.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by Kolja94 on Saturday, May 24, 2003 2:08 PM
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....

Karl

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Posted by kaleu on Saturday, May 24, 2003 1:11 PM
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.
Erik "Don't fruit the beer." Newest model buys: More than I care to think about. It's time for a support group.
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  • From: Syracuse, NY
Posted by ADleitch on Saturday, May 24, 2003 9:23 AM
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.
Its Better to Burn out than to Fade Away!!!
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  • From: Nebraska
Posted by bablenw on Friday, May 23, 2003 8:48 PM
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/
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 5:31 PM
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.
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  • From: Poland
Posted by Aleksander on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:27 PM
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

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:39 PM
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.
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Posted by Kolja94 on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:20 PM
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

Karl

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 19, 2003 6:10 PM
My biggest project has been just trying to finish any model that I start.Tongue [:P]Blush [:I]

Ray
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Posted by wayne baker on Monday, May 19, 2003 11:42 AM
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.

 I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.

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Posted by Keyworth on Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:45 PM
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!!!
"There's no problem that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives"
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Posted by shermanfreak on Sunday, May 18, 2003 3:16 PM
Mine was building a series of ......




wait for it .....




here it comes ......




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.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by djmodels1999 on Sunday, May 18, 2003 10:39 AM
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).

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What has been your biggest project?
Posted by garyfo on Sunday, May 18, 2003 9:55 AM
I love the FSM articles where they talk about model clubs that will build a whole wing of aircraft for a specific carrier or Air Force squadron.

Anyobody attempted anything like that where you had a large number of the same type of plane/tank/ship/ whatever?

I'd be interested in hearing some of the logistics behind them. Like, how do you find say....30 F-4 Wildcat kits all in the same scale at the same time...and so on.
Gary
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