3RD ANNUAL SECRET SANTA GROUP BUILD FOR AIRCRAFT

Wow Troy, you are both fast and excellent builder. I am amazed at the speed and the quality of your work. This one is up to your usuall standards and it turned out great. Is the paint still wet on that bad boy !!!!!. Great job.

Steve

Awesome work Troy!!!  How'd you do that so darn fast?  I haven't even got mine out of the box yet but then I've been out of town since Christmas, just got back yesterday.

Great work Troy! That looks awesome.

Excellent job HKshooter! I got that same kit from my SS. I still have to start on mine, now I know what's possible with this kit.

(To self: "no pressure, no pressure, no pressure, no pressure.....mabye nobody will see his post.......mabye his links will quit working")

 

Seriously, awesome job!

 

 

Awesome work Troy! That Stang is looking great! Nice base too!

Cheers,

Azgaron

 

Great work Troy I luv seeing thse builds progress - especially when one's on holidays

Thanks guys. Good to have the approval of ones peers. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone get going on their own builds. Lots of neat a/c in this years GB.

Jeez Hook, I'm just barely opening mine! You did a really nice job there! Especially considering the canopy drama. That's a very nice model build.

Troy, that 51 looks great.  I still have my kit sitting in the pile of Christmas gifts in the living room.  As soon as I finish redoing my shop I'll get started.

What the ...! You're already done?!
And it looks terrific, too!

 

Hello all,

I've been keeping up with the posts on this thread although this fall I just didn't get around to signing up for this years SSGB3.  I must say - it's been very entertaining (especially watching Drew's torment during the twelve days) 

Well, my Secret Santa from last year (Steve - Zipmeister) noticed that I wasn't a part of the thread - and very generously bestowed undeserved gifts upon this humble Santee anyway.  I just had to share this with you guys. 

Steve man - that was very kind and generous of you.  What can I say - but Thanks so much !   These are very very nice kits & both of the aircraft are high on my favorites list.

To all - I hope all of your Christmases were merry.  Happy New Year !

Chris

Wow HK, you are done already? Very nice Mustang. I always thought that those Allison engined P-51s looked cool.

Bossman wrote:

Hello all, I've been keeping up with the posts on this thread although this fall I just didn't get around to signing up for this years SSGB3.  I must say - it's been very entertaining (especially watching Drew's torment during the twelve days)  Well, my Secret Santa from last year (Steve - Zipmeister) noticed that I wasn't a part of the thread - and very generously bestowed undeserved gifts upon this humble Santee anyway.  I just had to share this with you guys.  Steve man - that was very kind and generous of you.  What can I say - but Thanks so much !   These are very very nice kits & both of the aircraft are high on my favorites list. To all - I hope all of your Christmases were merry.  Happy New Year ! Chris

 

Hey Chris! I wondered what happened to you too. Steve is a great guy and he sure showed it again. Way to go Steve!

You're in it now Chris! Start building

Bossman wrote:

Hello all, I've been keeping up with the posts on this thread although this fall I just didn't get around to signing up for this years SSGB3.  I must say - it's been very entertaining (especially watching Drew's torment during the twelve days)  Well, my Secret Santa from last year (Steve - Zipmeister) noticed that I wasn't a part of the thread - and very generously bestowed undeserved gifts upon this humble Santee anyway.  I just had to share this with you guys.  Steve man - that was very kind and generous of you.  What can I say - but Thanks so much !   These are very very nice kits & both of the aircraft are high on my favorites list. To all - I hope all of your Christmases were merry.  Happy New Year ! Chris

Jump right in my friend!

Steve- you are awesome, my brother!

 Chris your very welcome friend! Thanks for the kind words guys.  

I am glad,you asked for something a little off the beaten track and we don't see float planes all that much. sorry about the lack of wrapping but I was lucky to get it to the post office  oops, thought I added the quote part.  the kit is the Japanese seaplane

dostacos wrote:

I am glad,you asked for something a little off the beaten track and we don't see float planes all that much. sorry about the lack of wrapping but I was lucky to get it to the post office

very very late to the picture party, but here is my mug with my excellent gift sent by Steve (sidure)

Troy! my goodness, you finished before I posted my pic :)

A gorgeous build by the way, will save your pics & thread for future reference, glad you enjoyed!

Cheers, James

 

Leaadas wrote:

Here is my model from my secret Santa. I am actually quite happy with it as well as I have yet to build a Japanese bird from WW2.

Trying again youi are welcome, sorry for the lack of wrapping, but I needed my son to take it to the POST OFFICE in a hurry. I tried to find something off the beaten track

 

dAn

So here I come, a day late and a dollar short. Ok, more then a dollar aaannnddd more then a day. But I am here, and I am a lucky lucky individual. My secret santa who identified himself as someone from LI which I assume means long island (frankly I am a little embarrassed as this shows I haven't been around enough if I can't quite identify the man who provided me with my only christmas gift this year) now you ask, "why is Chris so lucky. he doesn't seem that lucky, he is always crying about something". Well I will tell you, I received a 1/48 Hobby Boss F3F-Wildcat (Early). Why is this awesome? first it is an amazing kit, looking through the box and it is just beautifully molded, second I have never built anything this early and certainly not a yellow wing, and third I didnnt know that I wanted to build this until I got it. I have such a bad habit of not venturing outside my comfort zone of planes I like" that having people choose kits for me is the only way I expand my horizons. I can't wait to get it started; and I can't wait to build my computer next month so I can communicate with you guys again. and of course I can't wait for my friend from LI to identify himself so I can thank him personally.

Just wait, mid february when I get my computer together you are all going to be entertained as I look through the pictures from christmas morning, and post the pictures of my own from said morning. I guess these days I am doomed to be late.

BSpeed: What did you think of the historical twins I got ya? I was very pleased with my decision, I hope you were just as pleased.

dostacos wrote:

Leaadas wrote: Here is my model from my secret Santa. I am actually quite happy with it as well as I have yet to build a Japanese bird from WW2.   Trying again youi are welcome, sorry for the lack of wrapping, but I needed my son to take it to the POST OFFICE in a hurry. I tried to find something off the beaten track   dAn

 

Its okay about the wrapping =) And yeah awesome job picking it! Altho it might encourage me to buy Tamiya's model of the sub they were supposed to fly out of......

I'm just about ready to button up the AccMin P-51 i got this year. It's the same kit as hkshooter, and as you can see, I work much slower!

Here's some pics....excuse the blurriness....blame your moniter!

 

 

Nice start Max!

Good looking start! Good to see someone doing some work here!

Wow we must all busy on the kits that we fell to page 2.  Home sick today so i should get more done on the bug. Got the nose cone together and all the white parts painted.  I used a little tip i heard from somewhere that if you spray a thin coat of silver the parts will coat more evenly when  the white goes on.  I'll post pics a little later, and to show what not to do when you use Tenex.  I'm still waiting for my resin seat from Squadron.  Got the decals and my F-14 seats but the Bug Seats must be OOS.  Figures

 

Any other bug builders out there? Do i need to put weights in the nose to avoid the dreaded tail dragger??

I have the Hasagawa bug Mist, I put in weights just to be sure.

Im going to make a start on the Zero later today. I have a decal sheet on order for markings and following advice here i will use some interior green for the cockpit.

Started this earlier and heres some progress:

Nice progress Ollie!

Cheers,

Azgaron

 

 

Some work on the engine, ready to put in the cowling now;