I might have a third mini-round to finish this trip down memory lane out.
So if you didn't see my post on Round 1, what I've done is make a bunch of placards to place with all of these builds I have scattered about my home at the behest of my wife. When I got to my workshop, where I have 33 completed kits either hanging from the ceiling or mounted to the wall, I ended up pulling each of them down to clean them and take some pictures before returning them to their mounts with their new placards.
Some of these date way back to when I first returned to the hobby in 1995. Many have survived several home moves between 1995 and 2003, with another of that group surviving a couple of additional moves between 2016 and 2018. There are a couple that fell from their mounts and shattered that I was able to Humpty-Dumpty back together.
Academy B-17G Flying Fortress 1/72. Back in 1997, I built my Dad a Monogram P-51D Mustang for Father's Day. He liked it so much he asked if I would build him a B-17, which was his favorite WWII aircraft. I didn't particularly want to build him Monogram's big 1/48 beast, so I turned to this Academy kit in the smaller scale. This was the build that survived more moves than any of the others, going from my apartment to my Dad's home, then he moved to what would be his retirement home, and in 2016, when he was starting to fail health-wise, he moved to an assisted living place, and the P-51 and B-17 went with him. Then one final move for this tired old bird, coming to my home after my Dad passed. It also survived all the intervening years with the hands of many grandchildren (and is currently missing a few guns and the tail wheel as a result).
Classic Airframes Bolton Paul Defiant Target Tug 1/48. I'd long wanted a Defiant in my collection, but didn't want to pay what all the vendors were asking for an actual wartime Defiant kit from a manufacturer that I knew to be a bit risky. Sprue Brothers ran a big sale that included this one, a target tug with the big tail gun turret removed, for about $10 so I grabbed it, albeit a bit reluctantly. This kit fought me pretty hard from beginning to end, and that black-and-yellow paint on the underside was much more difficult to complete than I anticipated. Built this one in roughly 2011. Thankfully Airfix recently put out a 48-scale version of the wartime Defiant, so eventually I'll get that one into my cabinet.
Eduard Bell P-39Q Airacobra 1/48. I'm going to say this is a re-pop of Accurate Miniatures' kit, and I already had an AM and Eduard P-39 in the stash when I opted in to a "Secret Santa" group build back in about 2006 or 2007. So this is what I was Secret Santa'd. I opted to build this P-39 as a Lend-Lease version with Soviet markings. I want to say that I originally put the US markings on then sprayed the dark green over the white stars, and then fit the red stars in their place.
Minicraft F-14A Tomcat 1/144 & Italeri F-14B Super Tomcat 1/48. I believe my mother-in-law picked these kits up for me at a garage sale. I built them in tandem. Didn't spend much effort on either as I recall, but did do some alterations to be able to mount them on brass rods and then to a wood base. These currently are "flying" near the garage entrance to my house.
Italeri Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVIe 1/48. Another Secret Santa gift circa 2006-2007. I cannot recall which nation these markings belong to, and don't really recall much about this build either.
Monogram DeHavilland Mosquito 1/48. This is one of my all-time favorite kits that I built many times as a child, in all of the variants the kit allowed for. This was one of the first kits I bought after returning to the hobby, and I built it while I was still in my apartment in West Houston in the late 90s. This won't be the last time I build Monogram's Mosquito, as I have an original issue of the kit in my stash.
Monogram Hawker Typhoon 1/48. Another old Monogram kit that I picked up upon my return to the hobby, I built this one along with the Mosquito in the late 90s. I also have an original issue of this kit in my stash.
Monogram Heinkel He-111H-4 1/48. Here is one of the two kits that brought me back into the hobby (the other was Revell's 1/32 Beaufighter). I was shopping for something completely unrelated - mouthwash, perhaps - at a K-Mart in Sugar Land, Texas in 1995 when I happened to pass through the toy section. I spied a model airplane, which given my history, caused me to stop for a closer glance. When I saw that big Beaufighter, something snapped. I'd never built that one before but had always loved the big, beefy look of that warbird. The kit went right into my basket. I thought I was done but no, there was this Heinkel. The 111 was well-known to me as a history nut who had read many books about the Battle of Britain, but as a kid the only kit I'd ever put together of a BoB German bomber was Monogram's old Do-17. This kit was not one that I ever had an inkling to even exist, and yet, here it was. Into the basket it went, along with a few others that I found sitting there. I held off building this one until I'd done a few others, as I knew the German camoflage was going to require a lot of masking and more skill than I currently had (keep in mind that at this point, I'd never before held, let alone used, an airbrush). After my first build, an Apache helicopter, I picked up a rudimentary Testors single-action airbrush, and that was what I used to paint this Heinkel with.
Monogram Messerschmitt Bf-110G-2 1/48. So this was released in the last year of the 90s, I think, prior to me purchasing my first house. I'd been through a bad breakup on a relationship with a gal, and that led me to spend the cash I was about the spend on a wedding on a house, and a bunch of models. I'd built the ancient 1/72 Bf-110 many times before, as well as Revell's 1/32 kit, but had never seen it offered in my preferred 1/48 scale. I picked this up along with the Monogram Pro-Modeler Me-410 that had come out about that time as well. Built in about the year 2000 after I'd settled into my new house.
Monogram Messerschmitt Me-109G 1/48. This was another kit I picked up on that day in that K-Mart. It also was the first build I did German mottling with an airbrush on. At the time I thought it looked okay, but now not so much.
Monogram Pro-Modeler Junkers Ju-87R-2 Stuka 1/48. A long-time favorite that I'd built as a Monogram 1/48 release as well as Revell's 1/32 release many times, for some reason I had never picked up a new Stuka after I got back into this hobby. I believe it was nearing Christmas time in 2002 when I saw this one in the Squadron catalog, and I got myself a Christmas present. It sat in my stash for many years, but I think I ended up building it in 2011.
Revell Heinkel He-219 Uhu 1/72. My wife found this at a thrift store one year, I can't even ball-park it, and one afternoon, between bigger projects, I threw this one together. I can tell that I airbrushed it light blue then used a German dark grey, perhaps RLM66, with a paint brush to dab on the splotches. Not really an example of my passable work IMO.
Special Hobby Fairey Barracuda Mk. II 1/48. This was my first Special Hobby kit. I didn't know anything about Special Hobby at the time, and I really wasn't that familiar with the Barracuda either. The Barracuda is an interestingly ugly airplane. The kit was acceptable for the most part, except for those annoyances that manufacturers like Special Hobby seem to be so fond of, like no locator pins or a lack of mounting brackets for things like wings. Good detail in the kit with resin parts that were included. But I think the kit fought me a bit much, and I built it at roughly the same time frame that I had struggled so much after all the effort to get Airfix's massive 1/24 Mosquito put together, that my interest in building had waned to the point of just do to do. I'd love to see Tamiya, Hobby Boss, or Trumpeter do one of these.
Tamiya Avro Lancaster B.III Dambuster 1/48. If you look at that day at K-Mart as the opening round of my return to kit-buying, then the Lancaster probably belongs to a third round perhaps. At the time, it was the most expensive kit that I'd ever purchased. I was still in that old apartment, was not making nearly the kind of money that I'd make in the next 10-20 years, and had never heard of the Fine Molds Millennium Falcon (spent very nearly $300 on that thing, and still have had little desire to build it). As far as Tamiya kits go, their Lancaster is not up to the same standards that most of us know very well. I don't recall a lot of interior detail and I don't recall that the kit "builds itself" as most current Tamiya kits seem to do. This is one of the builds that fell from its perch, back when I had it hanging from a bedroom ceiling inside the house. Fell on carpet, so the damage was not as catastrophic as was the Monogram B-25 Mitchell (posted in the Round 1 post), which hit concrete flooring and was obliterated. I managed to put both back together. When I got the Lancaster down, it was about as sad a sight as I've seen - one wing was pulling away, and even the fuselage halves were coming apart. I did some quick repairs to give her a bit more life with some CA rather than Tamiya liquid cement. Hopefully she'll be up there for many more years.
Tamiya Gloster Meteor F.1 1/48. For the life of me, I don't know why I built this one wheels-up. It certainly is small enough to have fit inside my display cabinet. This was the kit that also included the V-1, which is inside that cabinet. I likely built this one soon after moving into my current home in 2003.
Tamiya Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeke 1/48. Another Secret Santa gift circa 2006-2007. Might have done that SS thing through 2008, not sure. As I recall, I spent an afternoon on this one and hung it as an escort for my Betty.
Tamiya Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty 1/48. Another probable third round addition, was still in that apartment when I built her. I'm sure these markings are not those on the actual Betty in which Yamamoto met his demise, but I believe the solid green topside paint matches that unfortunate Betty. I do remember that on this kit, I used some kind of canopy mask where you were to paint the frame material of the mask, then apply that directly to the part. Worked pretty well, but I think this was the only build I ever used that product on. I also did my first effort at paint chipping as typically found on Japanese warbirds.
Trumpeter MiG-3 1/48. I'm pretty sure this was also a Secret Santa kit that I did in about the year 2007. This was the first Soviet WWII warbird I'd ever built (the only Soviet aircraft I'd ever built were Monogram's box scale Tu-16 Badger and their later 1/48 MiG-15 jet fighter. I recall this as a quick but fun build, especially replicated Soviet white-washing camouflage.
That's it for all my hanging displays, many of which date way back to the 90s. I have just a few in my cabinet that I should document as well, so potentially a Round 3 will show up in a few days.