great looking builds everyone! I was feelin pretty good about myself until i saw all these pics.

I've been on a luftwaffe kick this year...

hasegawa 1 48 109k and G6

hase 190A-4, 109F-2

Dragon Ju88G-6

and the arado i won't quite finish

Wow everyone's builds look fantastic. Here's mine.

Tamiya's 1/35 AAV, scratched the EAAK mounting bosses.

Would've finished a couple more but with classes, lacrosse, and moving  I just couldn't get to the bench. Oh well, maybe next year.

Thanks for starting this Doogs and I'll just say great work all around for fear I'll accidently leave some one out. I didn't think I'd gotten much done this until I looked over my Photobucket account:

Korean War GB: Academy South Korean K1A1 MBT

Trumpeter 1/48 F9F Panther

Early Jets GB: Finemolds 1/48 Nakajima Kikka

Classic Airframes 1/48 Vampire two-seat trainer

Natural Metal GB: Minicraft 1/72 B-29 Superfortress

Hobbycraft 1/48 Seversky P-thirtyfive

Hasegawa 1/48 P-47D

Wild Wings GB: Hasegawa 1/48 Captured Bf-109E

Odd Animal GB: Czech Model 1/48 Ryan Dark Shark

Manny's HO GB: Nakajima Ki-229 Allied code: JEFF

Wheeeeeee! That's more than I thought! Going to get some armour done next year, and who knows maybe even a ship or two!

the doog

 

bsyamato:

 

 

Doog i was think someone stolen the tracks and some wheel withouth leave the veichle on bricks

Also build the Daisy jeep the figure was needed great top works

 

 

lol---yeah I guess it DOES look like I left it parked on some Detroit street somewhere?

 

I only WISH that the Jeep came with the figure! I'd love to add some color to Daisy's....um......yeah.....those!

if these babes match the scale was perfect for a daisy mod  , out of the great K1A1 were you picked the two girls Cliff?

And as gamera says great building really here

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Don't want to be antisocial then close my single year build and put them here

Amodel ka-18 1/72 ,to put again in a diorama but the chopper is finished

Academy Super Etendard 1/72 (ex italeri moulds)

Bandai hguc Zaku FZ 1/144

Icm ki-27 1/72

Revell (rog) Fairey Gannet AS 4 1/72

Italeri Harrier GR3 1/72 (ex Esci moulds)

Have nice building Holydays

Hey Bsyamato: The gals are Preiser from Germany nudes with milliput clothing. They're actually fifty-four mm figures but they sorta work for one/thirty-fifth (guy broke the five key on the offfice computer- don't know how ). They scale out as almost 6 feet / 1.82 meters tall- tall, which makes them taller than the tank crew- but thankfully with the guys in the tank you can't really tell the scale is off.

Some nice builds there Mr Turtle!

Gamera

Hey Bsyamato: The gals are Preiser from Germany nudes with milliput clothing. They're actually fifty-four mm figures but they sorta work for one/thirty-fifth (guy broke the five key on the offfice computer- don't know how ). They scale out as almost 6 feet / 1.82 meters tall- tall, which makes them taller than the tank crew- but thankfully with the guys in the tank you can't really tell the scale is off.

 

the box i miss i'm plenty of 1/160-144-87-72 figures from preiser but it's hard to find them out these scales here! And don't have a credit card  the same figure box i think is avaible even on 1/24 that matching perfect with cars. 

Herc: Thanks! As I've said before I love those Japanese planes you turned out for the GB, the Storch is great and I love the Airacobra!

Bsyamato: Yes, I think the nudes come in several scales including 1/24. Nice kits, they come with a bunch of arms, legs, bodies, and heads you can glue together to get the pose you want. Sculpting the clothes is a little harder, I had a hard time doing the high heels for the young ladies.

the doog

 

DoogsATX:

 

 

 

My dad's....has that exact helmet. His only-ever foray into anything motorsports related, but it's friggin' cool. 

Very thankful that - while I enjoy some sports - I never got bit by the memorabilia bug. Way more expensive than $229.

 

That's pretty cool, Doogs! Johnny R was my favorite driver when I was a young doog. I always loved that simple graphic on his helmet. And his Gatorade car, along with that other orangey McLaren!

 

I was a big Rick Mears fan as a kid - but then I grew up in the 80s when it was him, AJ Foyt, Bobby Rahal, Al Unser, Jr and the like battling it out at the Brickyard. Loved the obnoxious yellow Pennzoil car.

the doog

 

bsyamato:

 

 

Doog i was think someone stolen the tracks and some wheel withouth leave the veichle on bricks

Also build the Daisy jeep the figure was needed great top works

 

 

lol---yeah I guess it DOES look like I left it parked on some Detroit street somewhere?

 

I only WISH that the Jeep came with the figure! I'd love to add some color to Daisy's....um......yeah.....those!

The Big Beautiful Jugs group build kicked off yesterday.

Just sayin...

DoogsATX

 

 

 

I was a big Rick Mears fan as a kid - but then I grew up in the 80s when it was him, AJ Foyt, Bobby Rahal, Al Unser, Jr and the like battling it out at the Brickyard. Loved the obnoxious yellow Pennzoil car.

What I remember most about those days was the cool variety of the cars--not like today where they all look so homogenized! There seemed to be quite a bunch of cool-looking and different models--remember the "Norton Spirit", the "Foyt Coyote" and the "Olsenite Eagle"? I've got the 1st and 3rd of those in the stash..

Beautiful work here everyone. I know it has been a very numericly productive year for me as well. But seeing how I have at least three builds that can be completed before the year is over in the next 9 days I will hold off posting my finished build pics until that mark has passed.

Nothing here.

This is my recently finished Bronco Hotchkiss H-39 for the Blitz in the West Gb

This is my Tamiya Pz IV J with Cavalier zimmerit

Finally, my Dragon Jagdtiger for my Panzerjager GB

Sp: Looking forward to your list, I've seen a bunch of them, wondering if I missed any.

Eric: Nice heavy metal there, great to see how much stuff you've gotten done with all your work problems and all. Love the crazy camo on the Panzer IV.

Thanks Cliff. That's the squiggly pattern that I saw for Normandy. It was very tough to spray, but turned out okay.

Eric, a very nice little bunch there. May only be 3, but they are beauts. That Pz IV cammo is very nice, and i love the Jagd.

I would count this as my "first" year in the hobby, I've only started developing skills since my discovery of this site while browsing the net.

Before this year I hand brushed my models and didn't even bother too paint the cockpits. 

The first plane for the year were all - airfix 1:72: il-2 (hand painted) not too good, Albatros DVa (hand painted) better, Bristol fighter (hand painted) getting better, then my last WWI plane, Hannover CL.IIIa (hand painted) still, better than the previous model.

Then came my "discovery" of rattle cans. I partially spray painted and partially hand painted a Airfix 1:72 Yak-9D & P-39Q Airacobra. The P-39 came out best.

Julez72 kindly gave me his old Badger 175 Crescendo dual action A/B, mum & dad bought me a compressor, and then I build a Revell MiG-3. This was my first go at airbrushing, the whole belly was airbrushed as well as the white top. I also sprayed the green sections of the wings with a rattle can.

I then continued from then on too use A/B only. I discovered scratch building, copper brake lines, scratch built seatbelts etc. I did this for my Hawker hurricane, P-40b. Then I thought I would give pre-shading a try, so I pre-shaded my PE-2.

Then because of models covered with rivets I couldn't pre-shade, so then I made a Corair, (thankyou Gamera for the decals!) then I made a P-40N in 48 hours for the weekend madness GB. Scratch built and all that, I finished and it turned out to be possibly my best model yet. 

And today, I just finished my Helldiver, I did so much scratch build it took me two weeks too complete, I also went for a open canopy position, for the first time.

I am now hosting my first Group Build, the Pearl Harbour 70th anniversary GB. Which I'll be building my first 1:48 scale model (Tamiya 1:48 A6M2 Zero). Which is also crossed over with the Japanese GB.

Today I bought 6 more models as well. Airfix 1:72 BV141, Airfix 1:72 JU88, Airfix 1:72 FW189, Airfix 1:72 AR196, Revell 1:72 FW190F-8 + BV246 Hagelkorn (together), Italeri 1:72 MC.202.

So this year I completed: Airfix 1:72 il-2, Airfix 1:72 Albatros DVa, Airfix 1:72 Bristol fighter, Airfix 1:72 Hannover CLiiia, Airfix 1:72 Yak-9D, Airfix 1:72 P-39Q, Revell 1:72  MiG-3, Airfix 1:72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.1, Academy 1:72 P-40b, Airfix 1:72 Corsair, Airfix 1:72 PE-2, Airfix 1:72 Helldiver.

Thankyou everyone for all the help, I greatly appreciated it!!  

WOW! some very nice builds up here. Maybe not the same standard as this gang - but I finished 'em so I'm throwing them up here anyway! In no particular order...

1/72 Ki-61 (Dragon, with wonderful instruction sheets! )

1/72 Zero A6M5c (Academy)

1/72 Hawker Hunter (OLD Airfix kit, I'm talkin' black, glue-resistant plastic here!!)

1/72 Sea Harrier FRS1 (new-tool Airfix kit

1/72 Fouga Magister (Airfix)

1/48 Bf-109G10 (Revell kit, Aeromaster decals)

1/48 P-38 nightfighter (Revell kit, Eduard cockpit details, True Details pilots seat, AM wheels, AM landing gear, Aeromaster decals, scratchbuilt radar operator's position, scratchbuilt deployed Fowler Flaps - couldn't leave it all-black right?!?!)

1/72?? Horten 229, completely scratchbuilt from recyclable materials....

And an "honourable mention": 1/72 Mirage F1c in South African colours (Airfix) - just waiting for the replacement decals...

Tigerman the first hearted armor i prefere out the other great ones

Nice skill year RRB put some collective picture of the finished subject, your progress was good 

Vance how you obtained the first ho-229 concept study model, intelligence ways?

the 109 is greater

Only Finished 2 this year, Accurate Miniatures SBD Dauntless and the Tamiya A6M5c Zero which was a kit I bought in 1983.

Bill

Heres the Dauntless

It's been a strange year. I started building plastic kits for the first time in my life. Got some things done. Only hope each one was a bit better than the last.

I'll wrap up one more "Jug" before years end. Happy with the way some turned out not so much others. I said it was a strange year. Two months in the hospital after gettin ghit by a car and five surgeries later... hoping for a better 2012

So many great builds guys.

Vance, Manny acts like you never build, but you've shown way more then he.

Vance, Bill, and JBrady: Great stuff guys! Thanks for the year end update I haven't seen most of these, wonder how I missed them???

Baron Von Richtofen: Wow, didn't know this was your first year. Fantastic progress you're making. Took me a lot longer to get to the point you're at now.

Vance: Yeah what Eric said. As much as Manny rides you that some seriously impressive work. Love the Hien and the Zero, the pilots really add a lot the planes.

Had quite a few in the works, but this was the only one that made it to the completion stage - WnW's 1/32 Pfalz D.IIIa.

Ruddrat, that is fricking cool.

Some great builds here, all! Think the end of the year is one of my favorites, forum-wise. Seeing all the year's builds, prospect of new GB's kicking off...

Some great looking build posted. This is what I work on this year.

Two that I don't think will make it.

Happy New Year.

Bob

One I forgot from DoogsATX weathering GB.