Again nice work everyone.  Heck they could do a whole issue dedicated to builds completed by us forum memebers.

2011 was a very busy year for me....with a total of 19 finished builds! (and 2 unfinished)

 A-10 Warthog, Monogram 1/72

A-10 Warthog, Monogram 1/48

B-25J Mitchell, Monogram 1/48

Bf-109G-10, Revell 1/48

F4F-4 Wildcat, Hobbyboss 1/72

F-51 Mustang, Tamiya 1/48

Harrier GR.3, MPC 1/72

Me-262 U1a Nightfighter, RoG 1/72

MiG-3, Zvezda 1/72

P-40B Warhawk, Revell1/48

P-51B Mustang, Revell 1/48

P-51B Mustang, Tamiya 1/48

P-51D Mustang, Monogram 1/48

P-51D Mustang, Minicraft/Hasegawa 1/72

Piper Cherokee 140, Minicraft 1/48

RC-135V Rivet Joint, ESCI/ETRL 1/72

Spitfire Mk.II, Revell 1/48

Spitfire Mk.IX, Airfix 1/72

Su-47 Berkut, Hobbyboss 1/72

Left unfinished for 2011 is a Ch-47 and a Zero.....

Now, you can't delete the post. All you can do is remove the words and images and just write in 'DELETED'.

Bish

Copy and paiste and then just remove the old post.

How does one remove a message?  I don't see any menu item/button for that.

Only 5 builds for me this year.

Academy 1/35 Huey

Academy 1/48 Czech MiG 29

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T.1

Italeri Hawk Mk.66

Airfix 1/48 109

And I've gotten this far on a 1/48 Hasegawa Phantom.

Don't think I'll get the Phantom done by the end of the year.

Beautiful builds all WW I really like that Bearcat

Great photos, I missed a lot of these this year.  Here's my contribution:

Academy F8F Bearcat 1/48.

Hasegawa F4U-4 Corsair 1/48.

Eduard La-7 1/48.

Tamiya P-51B 1/48

Monogram(1996) P-51B 1/48

Tamiya Mosquito 1/48

Copy and paiste and then just remove the old post.

Whoops, I somehow posted my reply to this thread in the "are you a master modeler thread."  Don't know a way to move it.

One I forgot from DoogsATX weathering GB.

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

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...

Ruddrat, that is fricking cool.

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.

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.

So many great builds guys.

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

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

Heres the Dauntless

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

Bill

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

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...

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!!  

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing here.

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.

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..

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...