Wow, what a beautiful collection! They're all fantastic but I love those P-38s, the Albatros, and the Swordfish. I've only had the guts so far to try to rig one biplane.

I recognize a bunch of those!

Very nice collection there, Aggieman. Keep the pics coming!

I can sympathize completely with your travails over the Eduard Camel. I've been doing biplanes for almost 50 years, starting with the old Revell 1/28 Camel back in the '60s, and I've never been so close to doing a "high impact crash test" (via the nearest wall) with a model as with the Eduard Camel. After about three fits and starts I finally got the wing sort of on--with largish globs of super-glue readily visible--but it's still my most frustrating modeling nightmare to date. (Having said that, of course, I've got two more waiting--someday--in the stash.) Jigs are definitely the way to go for those bipe alignment issues, but I've learned that serious dry-fitting, and occasionally trimming of struts, is pretty much a necessity for anything but the very best kits.

Allied aircraft

Hasegawa 1/32 F-4B4 (the rigging is horribly out of scale on this, the first biplane I built since re-joining this hobby)

Tamiya 1/48 Brewster Buffalo

Hasegawa 1/48 Hawker Hurricane

Tamiya 1/48 Fairey Swordfish (published in the November 2012 FSM Reader's Gallery)

Monogram Pro-Modeler 1/48 P-38E Lightning

Monogram 1/48 P-51B Mustang (Don Gentile's ride)

Monogram Pro-Modeler 1/48 SB2C Helldiver

Monogram 1/48 P-61B Black Widow

Monogram 1/72 P-82 Twin Mustang

How about some Grummans?

Accurate Miniatures 1/48 TBF Avenger (This was one of the first kits I built when I got back in to modeling back in the mid-90s)

Italeri 1/48 F-7F3N (I think) Tigercat

Monogram 1/72 Hu-16 Albatross

Monogram 1/48 F-9F5P Panther

Monogram 1/48 A-6 Intruder

Monogram 1/48 EA-6 Prowler

One of my other all-time favorites is the F4U Corsair, of which I have built two of the Tamiya kits.  I also have a Birdcage from Tamiya (48 and 32), as well as the old Revell 32nd kit.

My collection of Curtiss fighters.

Academy 1/48 P-36C

Monogram 1/48 P-40B - Pearl Harbor

Monogram 1/48 P-40B - Flying Tigers

Trumpeter 1/48 Tomahawk

Academy 1/48 P-40C - Flying Tigers

Hasegawa 1/48 P-40E - Aleutian Tiger

Eduard 1/48 P-40N

Can you tell that I like these Curtiss warbirds?  The first model I ever built, when I was 3, was that Monogram Flying Tiger.  I cannot even guess how many times I've built that kit.  I have 2 more un-built, one in the stash and the other displayed in my model cabinet (an actual 1965 dated kit with the blue box that Monogram used to use).  I have a Pro-Modeler -E and that Encore release that Squadron just sold, a repop of the ERTL kit I think.  Plus I have the old P-40E Revell kit in 1/32 scale.  Yeah, I like these Tigers.

The P-36 has after-market details for the cockpit and the flaps, whereas I custom built details for the wheel wells and chin cooler for the two Monogram Tigers, which also include True Details cockpits - the IP in that Monogram kit is actually for an -E, not a -B.

This one actually has a story to it.  Some time in the fall of 2013 I decided I wanted to build a WWI biplane.  I happened to have the Eduard 1/48 Sopwith Camel in my stash, so out it came.  After several weeks of construction and painting and prepping the rigging, I got to the point of attaching the upper wing.  Utter fail. Could not get the cabanes to align, and eventually lost one in a minor fit of rage.  That one took a quick flight that ended against the wall.

Flash forward a couple of weeks.  I still wanted to build that Camel, so I acquired an Academy 1/32 kit and set about doing work on it.  And again, when I got to the upper wing, disaster, and that kit ended up getting smashed out of by now what was raging, fire-breathing anger.  

I found a product on ebay that is called a biplane jig.  It is basically a stand with 2 prongs with a maximum of 4 bars that can be attached.  It essentially allows one to rest a model on the lower bar and align the upper wing to whatever the angle needs to be.

No more Sopwith Camel, but I had an Encore 32nd scale German Albatros D.III in my stash.  The jig was a life saver this time, and even though I still fought an alignment battle, the jig gave me essentially an extra set of hands so that I was able to get the cabanes aligned properly and attach the upper wing.  I think the Encore kit might have started life as a Roden kit.

So here she is.

This is the most fragile model in my collection.  I can do something as simple as blow on her and she will noticably wobble on that trapeze landing gear.  Other than that seam right behind the cockpit I thought I did a good job here.  Experimented with oil paint to replicate wood grain in the cockpit and on the propeller.

All stunning so far. Keep 'em coming!  :D

Some more builds.

Academy 1/48 F-8F1 Bearcat

Two different Monogram 1/72 Bearcats

Monogram 1/48 F-6F5 Hellcat

Monogram Pro-Modeler 1/48 Focke Wulf Fw190D-9

ZM 1/48 Shinden

Great Wall Hobby 1/48 Focke Wulf Fw189 (B-2)? 

Tamiya 1/48 P-51D Mustang "Tuskegee Airmen"

More to come.

It is Alclad II paint for both of the Lightnings.  Airframe aluminum as a base with some dark aluminum to pick out certain panels.

Some nice builds, I like the Hummer. And Bob beat me to the question on the NMF.

Nice builds-I especially like the NMF on the P-38's-is that foil or paint...and if paint, what kind?

Nice looking builds there.

Mike

Very nice to see some of your builds again Aggieman.

Nice collection! I like how you have different subject matter. I tend to get fixated on one subject at the expense of branching out.

Very nice builds.

your paint work is very well done.

I especially like the slightly dirtied look of the Academy 1/48 F-5 Lightning Photo Recon.  ( My next build from the stash )

Nice looking builds you have there Aggie. Love your Lightnings, great NMF's.

Steve

Very nice!