I am getting excited for this one!

Unfortunately I recieved some christmas presents that would have been a lot of fun to add to the stash voting :)

Good evening,

I just found this group and I'm wondering if I could still join the group build?  I recently started building plastic models again after almost 40 year layoff.  Things have changed a lot to say the least.  I have bought quite a few models before I started building anything.  I like USN aircraft and Japanese aircraft.  I have a few resin models of cargo aircraft I worked on in the USAF made by Anigrand but have never built a resin model.

Anyway, please let me know if I can join and what I need to do.  I can send pictures and list tomorrow. 

Best Regards,

John McMakin

John Today is the last day for joining. So your still just withing the time line. I would suggest posting your list, with pics if you have them, just to save a bit of time. I am sure Kenny will be on before the end of the day and if you have it all posted will be easier for him.

And welcome back to the hobby and to the site.

Thanks Bish.  I'll post the list with photos today.  

I appreciate your getting back so quickly and the encouragement.

John

Thanks Bish,

I'm really pleased that I made it under the wire.  As I finish detailing what I'm building now I've been trying to decide what to build next.  This will make it easy!  

I'll have the list and photos posted later this morning. 

Best Regards,

John

Good morning,

Here is my list and photos (if I did it correctly).

Hasagawa G4M2 Betty

Hasagawa KI-46 Dinah

Hasagawa S-3A Viking

Academy F2H-3/4 Banshee

Hasagawa A-3B Skywarrior

Fujima F7U-3M Cutlass

Hasagawa S2F-1 Tracker

Emhar F3H-2 Demon

MPM F5F-1 Skyrocket

Siga FJ-1 Fury

MPM FH-1 Phantom

Hasagawa P-3C Orion

Hasagawa N1K1 Kyofu

Hasagawa A-4E/F Skyhawk

Fujima EA-6A Black bunny

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Don't see any photos, just the list. Photos have to be posted on a host site, such as photo bucket, then linked to here. Don't think they are essential for your original post, but would be very useful once you start building.

Hopefully Kenny will be on before the day is out to check for anything last minute. But i think he has had a few problems since the change around here. He also has his own site, http://hobbyli.com/Forum/tabid/55/Default.aspx and alot of us have also posted there.

Good Evening Bish,

Thanks for the feedback. 

If you click the text block that says "View All" the link will take you to the photos.

In the voting system I finally figured out how to put in photos.......but they are small.  I could redo them but I'm not sure if that would be OK.  At least you can see them now.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

John

Ye, got it. Never seen that way of doing the photos. As for the ones on your voting page, there doesn't seem to be an edit feature. I messed mine up by putting two pics of the F-117 in and missing the SM-79, but i have just left it.  Nice list you have, am i right in thikning they are all 1/72nd scale.

Bish,

They are all 1/72 scale. 

I did not try to do the photos that way, it just came out that way.  On the preview I got a slide show of the photos and that disappeared when I posted it.

I got into 1/72 scale when I ordered a bunch of Airfix kits (Bag and tag) from England when I was 12 (1962) and have stuck with it.  I used to read a magazine called Royal Air Force Flying Review magazine (long defunct) back then and they had articles on building models and advertisements from Airfix.  I had always been fascinated with things British so they were all British aircraft.  I won't bore you with the details.

I think I will do another post with proper sized pictures and titles today.

Thats a nice story and not boring at all. I started in the hobby on 1/72nd aircraft, cutting my teeth on Airfix and have stuck with that scale as i find it alot easier for Dioramas. I later expanded a bit into 1/35th armour also.

Polls are now open at the voting site!

Please be advised that there are two pages of particpants.  Make sure you vote on everyone's list!

Sorry I could not get them polls openedd sooner.

How do you get to the voting site ?

                                     John .

Thanks IL2!

My votes for this years instruments of torture have been cast. So far most people's stashes seem to have between 3 and 5 sets of votes cast for them.

Helo 53

How do you get to the voting site ?

                                     John .

http://il2windhawk.com/FSM/IMS4/

Thank's for the link paul ;

I cast my votes on everyone's stash , am I also supposed to vote on my own stash ???

                                 John

Helo 53

Thank's for the link paul ;

I cast my votes on everyone's stash , am I also supposed to vote on my own stash ???

                                 John

I wasn't to sure on that myself, but as it let me i did.

Voted!

yes you can vote on your own stash guys . make sure you vote for the top 3 kits in everyones stash

i am all voted up

VOTED!!!

Gee unlike a political election where you vote for one of two people - fifteen awesome kits- it's was really hard for me to make up my mind on many of these.

voted on the favs is the stashes!

I've completed my voting.  Lots of cool stuff. 

Voted.

Don't be surprised if we have some ties at the end of the voting.  It's happened every year, and typically a quick tie-breaker vote will take place for each person with tied kits.

And vote for your stash!

Done

Kinda surprised at some of the selections, totally not surprised at others.

You guys really really like the big kits :) The bigger the kit, the more likely to be selected. There are other specific subjects that seemed to get selected a lot too. 229's got lots of votes, p61s got a lot of votes, b24s and b25s also ranked high. the bigger the ship, the more likely it got selected!

I am glad I didnt put the Monogram 1/48 P61 in there, or you sick *******s would have made me build it :) hahaha!

I am surprised the B-24's are making such a good showing. My build's deffinatly ain't panning out as i expected.

And for any one who hasn't voted, remember you need to vote for 3 kits, seems a few people have only voted for 1.

Bish

I am surprised the B-24's are making such a good showing. My build's deffinatly ain't panning out as i expected.

And for any one who hasn't voted, remember you need to vote for 3 kits, seems a few people have only voted for 1.

Guilty as charged...   

And just before I voted I read Kenny's post where he states in no uncertain terms- vote for THREE

Sigh...

Does it make that much difference?

I guess it depends on how you did or would have voted. If there is only one vote in it, then i guess it could, but its not like we are on about running the country is it. I'll enjoy what ever tops the list, they are all due to be built at some point anyway.

Yeah, I'd think the only real difference is that I diluted my own influence. Seems most of my votes were with the pack in any case so I can't see I would have upset anything.

Voted...