stikpusher
Mark, I don't think that you have posted any of your R/M builds here yet. And as many kits that I know you have built, you have to have built a couple dozen or so Revellograms in Braille Scale. So get on it mister!
BTW, how was this month's IPMS?
This month's IPMS was great! Some awesome seminars in the round robins that really opened my eyes to some new techniques. I also placed for the first time since December: my Transall took first and my UH-1C took a second.
As for posting my Revell/Monogram kits, well I guess I'll have to get on it. Most of my Revell/Monogram kits were built when I was a wee youngster, so won't look as good as all the rest of these fine builds on this thread. I will post what I have pics of though....
Let's start with ships...
Here is one I did some time ago. It's one of their ships, the Hawaiian Pilot:
My apologies for the poor quality of the pic, my camera I used back then was not the best.
This is what I call the Hawaiian Pilot's "sister ship" only because I bought and built them at the same time. This is the Esso Glasgow tanker:
Here's another one I built because I was such a big fan of the man's show. Jacques Cousteau's Calypso:
This next one was a gift I built for a WWII Navy Nurse who served on the Mercy. She was on board when the Mercy was at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, and several other places. I didn't build it the way it was supposed to be built; (I left off the helicopter deck) because I wanted it to look somewhat like her ship in WWII. It wasn't the most accurate representation of her ship, that would have taken far too much kitbashing/scratchbuilding than my skills would allow. Even so, she was thrilled to have received this.
The Plaque reads: "In Honor of your Service, Navy Nurse Corps, 1941-1945"
This last ship is the 1/720 scale Intrepid. I usually don't build my carriers in that scale, but this was a gift from someone special so I built it. I made it as an anti-submarine platform because as a kid I read somewhere that she served briefly as one. It ain't the most accurate either, but then I was 12 when I built this:
Okay, on to my aircraft...
I'll start with the only 1/48 scale aircraft I've ever kept for my collection. This was a Monogram P-51 that had been in our club's Distressed Kit Auction four times. It had been started and was so messed up by the builder that NOBODY wanted to bid on this as everyone considered it thoroughly unbuildable. After the fourth auction, it was offered to me or it was going to be thrown out. So I took it, not knowing what I was going to do with it. After looking it over, I figured I'd try to build it. It ain't the best looking model, especially compared to all you Masters, but this was 'resurrected', not rebuilt. Here it is:
Next up are two more 1/48 scale models I built for a friend. He was the senior Project Manager on the Development team for these two aircraft and he wanted models of them. I picked them up at a deep discount from a friend and finished them up.
First is the F-102 Delta Dagger:
Then I made him the Delta Dart:
Now for a smaller kit (1/72 scale), I got this for four bucks at a local show:
I also have an F-102 and F-106 in 1/72 scale for myself:
I built those when I was 11.
Here's three more I built when I was 11. These are some of my favorite planes; there's just something so beautiful in their brutal ugliness. Here are the three F-105 Thunderchief's I built:
Yes, that silver is the bare plastic. I had no airbrush (didn't know what one was at that age!) and I knew I'd never get the silver to look as good brushed on, so I left it bare plastic.
Yeah, I shoulda dusted them before I took these pics.
Moving right along, Here are three of a four-kit set that my wife bought me way back in 1991. It was a Revell set of four aircraft used in Desert Storm and boxed in one box. She actually bought it at Sears at the time! I built three of the four aircraft; I need to do the A-6 someday.
First aircraft:
Here's another kit I rebuilt to replace one built in my childhood. The original was smashed beyond repair during a move.
Of course, there's always the venerable F-15XL Cranked Arrow too. I got this for 5 bucks:
Here's one of my rare Revell helicopters I built. I wanted to do a different scheme since this one was so difficult. I did this one because my wife thought the horse was "cute":
Here's a couple of fun ones. First is my Goodyear Blimp. Yes, the lights and signage work:
And the one and only Wright Flyer. Inside the box they had a flyer showing ways to improve the model so I gave most of them a try:
And finally, the only 1/72 scale armor model that was done by Monogram, if I recall correctly. They boxed two versions, the T-80 and the T-80U. Both essentially the same model, but the second one had reactive armor added to it:
Okay, those are some of my Revell/Monogram models I built. I have more, but I need to shoot pics of them. I also passed over a number of models because I wasn't sure if they were Revell/Monogram or not, so until I can confirm that, I'll wait to post them.
Okay, my apologies for the long post and somewhat poor pics. Enjoy!