Secret Santa- WWII Aviation GB

LoL... Good to see everyone is Having a Merry Ol' Christmas Scott with his P-38, RadMax getting the BF109 he'd been after Awesome!!

now what's with the Verlinden Detail Sets for Bud's kit? I have  one for the engine which was  sent to me by a friend for my PT-109 G/B 

Glad ypu liked it man i was searching your post and noticed most of your stuff was american and figured youd need a Me109.

THANK YOU Scott!

Got to open the presents this morning; a 22 degree, clear-blue sky; 32" of snow on the ground Christmas morning here in Denver.

Scott, the Hasegawa P-400 Airacobra that you sent me is one that I have not built.  But I fully look forward to building it.  Need to start some research and looking at my options on this under-apreciated plane.

My daughter was as excited as I was; she thought it was great that I had a Secret Santa! My wife I think was a bit jealous......  That's ok, I went and got her some scrapbooking supplies to keep her in her hobby corner today.

My santa was Rob aka Smokingguns3. I don't know how, but he got me something I've been looking at for a long time. Thanks so much, my friend! Merry Christmas!

The kit

Me enjoying my kit

Jon, I gotta thank you for making this all possible. Let's make this a yearly extravaganza, shall we?

Rob, Awesome gift. I don't know how you knew, or if you knew but I really like it. I need a 109 for the collection. You should like ICM... pretty much a Tamiya copy. Good stuff!

Bud, glad to see you got one of my favorite aircraft! You'll do great! P.S. avoid the Verlinden detail sets LOL 

Woo Hoo!  Opened up my Secrat Santa gift from painlkr, got a P-38J!  Woo Hoo!  The card was great, had a snowman on the front with his head laying on the ground and he was saying "#$%^ kids"  ROTFL

Thanks painlkr!!    My latest OCD with this hobby is P-38 Lightightnings! 

Egad Bud!! Ya got what ya wanted Now who was it that sent ya that?

A little suprise phone call this morning from my mother, I've been invited to their house for Christmas & was told they had met the mailman on Friday while in town & had picked up a big white box  with my name on it. Could it be my SS gift? I think Mom said it was from Canada!! OH Goodie.... me likes suprises....

So, I wont know until I get there....

Looks like everyone is Merry so far this Morning!!
Merry Christmas Y'all!!

Eddie 

So this is what I got from Marc "Wingnut":

I never heard of this aircraft before, but it looks great and promises to be a fun build, thanks a lot. I already started looking on the internet for aftermarket parts ...

I sent two cristmas cards, one to Marc and one to my recipient, James "Mist086", but I'm afraid they didn't make it in time or, even worse, got lost. Sorry for that!

MERRY CHRSITMAS EVERYONE!

I'm at my in-laws in Texas, "enjoying" their dial-up, so I may not post a lot over the next week.

It's been a SPITFIRE Christmas baby!

Sturzkampf sent me this Airfix Spitfire IX, a kit which I really like. I plan to really put a lot of scratch work into this one. I'd done it earlier in the year for another GB, but it was OOB, so I really wanted to do another one, and was planning on picking this up from the LHS. So cool! Thanks Sturzkamp! You got the perfect kit for me!

As an additional surprise, flippersdad sent me this kit as a thank you for hosting the GB- totally a surprise to me. I thought I'd screwed up and sent him the wrong recipient when I got it! Thanks so much for this- it can be built as an VIII also, and I have a 5 set 1/72 scale Spitfire set, so this will add to that. I plan to have a display of all the Spit variants in 1/72, so this is PERFECT!

And it's not part of the GB, but I had to mention this. My wife and kids conspired, and got me a P-40C kit, some decals to build Tex Hills plane- and an autographed color photo several AVG birds flying in formation! How cool is that?!?!

Merry Chrsitmas to all!

OMG OMG OMG I can't believe I got this. I was just talking to Ed, Drew and Rob about a plane like this. Now this build is going to be SWEEEEEET ! Thanks Jon...... Ho Ho Ho

MAN I want to start on this RIGHT NOW, but I have to wait till my kids open up there's  hehehhe

Marry Xmas to all

Bud

Well its 12:07 am on the 25 here so heres my  SS gift from Troy Hoskins aka hkshooter Thank you and you all have a safe and happy holiday season. This a ICM P-51D-15 this will be a first ive never heard of icm before so here it is.

Dubau wrote:

Well that would be cool too. I can mold and shape a Corsair Bud

I'd love to see you do that

Well that would be cool too. I can mold and shape a Corsair

Bud

Naaaaaaaaaaa not me I am ok, more coffee, more coffee have to stay up till 12  more coffee

Bud

Dubau wrote:

WOW 24 pages.......... 2 more hrs to go here and I CAN'T Wait Sooooooooooo is anyone going to be starting on your SS Kit tonight LOL Bud

LoL... I think sumone needs a Nap!!

WOW 24 pages..........

2 more hrs to go here and I CAN'T Wait

Sooooooooooo is anyone going to be starting on your SS Kit tonight LOL

Bud

osher wrote:

DrewH wrote: Your Osher It was fun looking for you. I had to look for your posts for a while till I found your GB badges. That gave me an idea of what you are into so I could go in another direction. My family had fun digging though my LHS for that one. Cheers Drew Thanks Drew!  I'll have fun building it!  I also enjoyed finding the kit for my, er, victim, but I'll say no more until he posts.  Merry Christmas to you and the family, and I hope your present is equally cool!

WTG Drew!!

DrewH wrote:

Your Osher It was fun looking for you. I had to look for your posts for a while till I found your GB badges. That gave me an idea of what you are into so I could go in another direction. My family had fun digging though my LHS for that one. Cheers Drew

Thanks Drew!  I'll have fun building it!  I also enjoyed finding the kit for my, er, victim, but I'll say no more until he posts.  Merry Christmas to you and the family, and I hope your present is equally cool! 

Your Osher It was fun looking for you. I had to look for your posts for a while till I found your GB badges. That gave me an idea of what you are into so I could go in another direction. My family had fun digging though my LHS for that one.

Cheers

Drew

DrewH wrote:

Avus wrote: Here it's 0.26! So 26 mins I opened my gift! Pain is gone!

DrewH, thanks sooooooooooo much!  Yes, indeed, it's something I wouldn't have chosen myself, but it looks coooooooooool!  Merry Christmas!  Thanks so much again! 

It's a Hasagawa Aichi D3A1 Type 99 'Val' model 11 Pearl Harbour

Avus wrote:

Here it's 0.26! So 26 mins I opened my gift! Pain is gone!

mph34 wrote:

mph34 wrote:  mph34 wrote:  mph34 wrote:  jwb wrote:  Avus wrote:  flippersdad wrote: "On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me a Bf-109E." On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, two Hurricanes, and a Bf-109E. On the 3rd day of christmas my true love gave to me ''Three He 111's ''. Steve   On the 4th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me "Four B-24's, Three He 111's, two Hurricanes, and a Bf-109E On the 5th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me "FIVE Fw-190's, Four B-24's, Three He 111's, two Hurricanes, and a Bf-109E On the 6th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me "Six Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero's, FIVE Fw-190's, Four B-24's, Three He 111's, two Hurricanes, and a Bf-109E On the seventh day of Christmas my true sent to me 7 Me 2626's and all the other stuff already listed. On eigth day of Christmas my true love sent to me "8 F4F Wildcats, and all the above list." On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me " 9 B-17F's, and the above list." On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me "10 Spitfires and the above list." Need someone else to jump in here; I'm too tired to finish this song.  I am still digging out from that blizzard that hit Denver this week.

Got dug out!  Helped a neighbor dig out also, got a nice plate of Christmas goodies loaded with sugar and chocolate!

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me "12 pounds of assorted paints, glue, and sanding sticks, so I can build my little airforce that my true love sent me"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here it's 0.26! So 26 mins I opened my gift! Pain is gone!

I'll post some pics tomorrow. I'll be waiting that you have opened your packets, too.

Dubau wrote:

osher wrote:  Dubau wrote: Anyone on here doing this from the UK that is ahead of us here in the US? Ooooooooooooooo Osher is, GOD Save the Queen Bud

And Heaven help Bud!!

osher wrote:

Dubau wrote: Anyone on here doing this from the UK that is ahead of us here in the US?

Ooooooooooooooo Osher is,

GOD Save the Queen

Bud

Dubau wrote:

Anyone on here doing this from the UK that is ahead of us here in the US?

wing_nut wrote:

Merry Christmas Jon... have a safe flight.

May you have fair skies & a tail wind Have a great time with the family!

Same to all of ya! MErry Christmas!!