3RD ANNUAL SECRET SANTA GROUP BUILD FOR AIRCRAFT

2 hours, 10 minutes.

you can taste the excitement! 

1 hour 34 minutes. The wife tried to get me to open it when we did presents a few hours ago but I held out.

I'm a little stoked...

Well it's a good three hours before I head off to bed yet but there's a fire in the fireplace, family is playing games trying to distract themselves until bed time and I just snuck off for a couple of minutes to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and I haope all of you enjoy a new year filled with joy and delight.  See you all in the morning and please make sure you're wearing pants for your Secret Santa photo!

Paul, nice kit  

Twenty four minutes left but I'm bushed. Going to bed, will post pics tomorrow. Sometime.:)

We opened gifts tonight, so I went ahead and opened my SS3 gift as well.  Sorry about the bloke in the photo, he obviously doesn't get dolled up for photo shoots!

My Secret Santa was Kevin (MIflyer), and he sent me a 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-100 and a PE flap set to boot!  Thank you VERY much Kevin, I love it!  I do not have this one, even though it is one of my all-time favorite Japanese warbirds.  I am going to dig into this one this weekend!

As the clock struck Midnight, I opened my gift.

Tamiya P-47D Razorback. AWESOME!!!!!!!

Thank you so much John Eaton! (jeaton01)

MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone.

Regards,

Jeff

C'mon you Guys - WAKE UP !

We wanna see what you all got !

How you going up there Paul ? Bit under the weather here...........

Well 11:30pm here but I'll wait till morning to open mine. 

Frank, You may not be wearing pants but at least you put on a bath robe. Thanks mate!

Good morning and

MERRY CHRISTMAS

to all of you!

My Secret Santa sent me something from my whishlist, so this year you'll get to know my real face; I'm not talking about the mug shot (that one stays the same more or less) but the real modelling face:

Yes I am a rotorhead maniac!

Thanks a lot Håkan (aka Azgaron) ! I like the model you got for me a lot!
Black Hawks in all their variations arew my favorite helos.
I'm going to convert it as an Army MH-60K with some resin parts and Photoetch, but I'm going to start working on this once I've finished my current project (a 1/35 Pave Hawk ).

Once again thanks for the great model and merry Christmas to you all!

Simon L wrote:

C'mon you Guys - WAKE UP ! We wanna see what you all got ! How you going up there Paul ? Bit under the weather here...........

Cooked breakfast on the BBQ and then got stuck into the Champagne with the in-laws at breakfast.  Needed a lie down at noon, then back into another session at my parents place in the afternoon.  Now finishing off some prawns and crashing (hopefully)

Wirraway wrote:

Simon L wrote: C'mon you Guys - WAKE UP ! We wanna see what you all got ! How you going up there Paul ? Bit under the weather here........... Cooked breakfast on the BBQ and then got stuck into the Champagne with the in-laws at breakfast.  Needed a lie down at noon, then back into another session at my parents place in the afternoon.  Now finishing off some prawns and crashing (hopefully)

Yeah - we just finished up the prawns and salad. Had too many beers and marathon Wii sessions with / against my daughter.......thinking about crashing shortly. Melbourne-Boxing Day, of course, I'm off to the Test tomorrow. ( That's Cricket Guys )

Wirraway wrote:

Cooked breakfast on the BBQ and then got stuck into the Champagne with the in-laws at breakfast.  Needed a lie down at noon, then back into another session at my parents place in the afternoon.  Now finishing off some prawns and crashing (hopefully)

Yeah, this struck me as funny, and I'm not trying to be mean, but did I just see a guy from Australia say he threw another "Shrimp on the Barbie"!?.....Groan.... I hope that's as funny to everyone else as it is to me.

Anyway... MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I was happily surprised to unwrap this from Brian44 last night during my family's Christmas. I wish I would have gotten a good shot of the wrapping paper... it was handmade by Brian's wife! Very cool, indeed!

Thank you so much Brian... I'll be doing a bunch of research today while I'm at work so I can get started on it after the new year!

It's cool to see everyone, especially with the smiles on their faces! Merry Christmas to everyone again!

 Hmmm never went to bed.... Just was getting sleepy ... finally and the kids woke up a 5 AM and said it was time!  So let the pics speak for themselves! You remember the duct tape? iT IS NO JOKE!

acmodeler01  Jon, Thanks so much for the Tamiya Buffalow! and the tape. Had a lot of fun with it!

Glad you liked it Klaus!

Thanks a lot to my so far unknown Secret Santa! I got this nice little jet!

Nice to get something different from all the F-xx planes I usually build!

Merry Christmas!

Azgaron

Azgaron wrote:

Glad you liked it Klaus! Thanks a lot to my so far unknown Secret Santa! I got this nice little jet! Nice to get something different from all the F-xx planes I usually build! Merry Christmas! Azgaron

I would be the guilty party there. Im glad you like it, i hope you enjoy building her.

acmodeler01 wrote:

Wirraway wrote: Cooked breakfast on the BBQ and then got stuck into the Champagne with the in-laws at breakfast.  Needed a lie down at noon, then back into another session at my parents place in the afternoon.  Now finishing off some prawns and crashing (hopefully) Yeah, this struck me as funny, and I'm not trying to be mean, but did I just see a guy from Australia say he threw another "Shrimp on the Barbie"!?.....Groan.... I hope that's as funny to everyone else as it is to me.   Anyway... MERRY CHRISTMAS! I was happily surprised to unwrap this from Brian44 last night during my family's Christmas. I wish I would have gotten a good shot of the wrapping paper... it was handmade by Brian's wife! Very cool, indeed! Thank you so much Brian... I'll be doing a bunch of research today while I'm at work so I can get started on it after the new year! It's cool to see everyone, especially with the smiles on their faces! Merry Christmas to everyone again!

I find that they get to dry when cooked on a BBQ, so we generally just get them cooked , and eat them with wasabi and soy , accompanied by a few refreshing lagers.

Nothing better on a warm evening !

Cheers

This is awesome!  I'm lovin getting to see all of the happy faces with boxes of styrene in their hands.  WAKE UP WAKE UP EVERYONE!  I wanna see more pics.

Thank you so much for putting this together Jon, and to everyone for making it so much fun.

Aaron- I thought you were kidding about the duct tape!

Well it's 8am here in Iowa, but i won't be opening until my step-daughter gets here and we all open the presents as a family.  So you'll see my ugly mug around 11am. 

Thanks again Jon for setting this up.  This is my 3rd year doing the SSGB and each year it's wonderful to see all the familar faces, and get to know the new ones.

Merry Christmas guys 

and here we go ... It was 00:01 here in Massachusetts when we started pening the presents When we got back I saw sleds marks on our roof

THANK YOU Bill !!!!! I am just curious how did you know I like Polish aircrafts ?

 I did not realize that anybody else makes this aircraft in 1/48 besides Mirage Hobby. Sure I will build it very soon. Thanks again !!!

ollie wrote:

Azgaron wrote: Glad you liked it Klaus! Thanks a lot to my so far unknown Secret Santa! I got this nice little jet! Nice to get something different from all the F-xx planes I usually build! Merry Christmas! Azgaron     I would be the guilty party there. Im glad you like it, i hope you enjoy building her.

Now that I know who my Santa is, thanks again Ollie!
I hope to get going with the kit, sometime early next year! I´ll start looking for referne pics right on though!

Cheers,

Azgaron

Wow. Everyone has gotten some really good gifts.

Thanks Aaron (sfcmac) for the Monogram He-111. And no, I don't have one. Actually, this will be my first Heinkel I have ever built so I am really looking forward to building it.  Think I will go with the torpedo bomber version.

Sorry, no pictures yet. My digital camera decided to quit working this morning. Stupid cheap Kodak.

I hope everyone is having a very nice Christmas and getting some good stuff. Can't wait to see what other people got.

Merry Christmas to all. 

Sure appears everyon is having fun and enjoying tearing into brightly wrapped boxes of styrene.  The pictures of the models are sure impressive.  All look like they will be fantastic buiids.  Oh, the mugshots are great looking also. 

Aren't we a mottly crew, 

Still resisting mine.  Actually everyone else is still in bed.  Have to wait till they are up and decide is we do it now or what till the grandkids arrive and totally destroy the house. 

John

Azgaron wrote:

ollie wrote:  Azgaron wrote: Glad you liked it Klaus! Thanks a lot to my so far unknown Secret Santa! I got this nice little jet! Nice to get something different from all the F-xx planes I usually build! Merry Christmas! Azgaron     I would be the guilty party there. Im glad you like it, i hope you enjoy building her. Now that I know who my Santa is, thanks again Ollie! I hope to get going with the kit, sometime early next year! I´ll start looking for referne pics right on though! Cheers, Azgaron

Good luck finding some referance. Ive found a few photos here:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Mitsubishi%20F-1%2FT-2&distinct_entry=true

Thank you soooomuch Steven(aggieman) for the AM 1/48 Dauntless!!! I LOVE it!!!

Daniel, I'm glad you like it.  Looking forward to seeing some pictures when you can get to it.  Merry Christmas!

As for my own, my family has not yet bothered to wake up.  I think everyone was up too late last night, which delayed Santa's arrival until the wee hours last night.  He told me he had to stay in a holding pattern for a couple of hours until he knew my daughter finally had gone to sleep.  Gosh, I don't know how the big guy does it - if I had that kind of delay in my work I'd surely miss my deadlines!

Any way, I'll post about my SSIII gift when we finally get around to opening everything.

Thanks Steve (sidure)! I was certainly surprised at your generous gift- thank you my friend, from the bottom of my heart.

And you said it right in your note- this is not something I would have normally gotten, but believe it or not I have been eyeballing this plane for a while- it is so cool looking! Thank you my friend- God bless you.

Merry Christmas everyone!