Greetings all.

I havent wandered into the forum too much over the past year, but I've still been busy in the secret underground laboratory.

I started out 2009 by finishing the slat armored Stryker. I chronicled the construction of this vehicle in the forum this time last year.

After the Stryker, I was kinda burned out and avoided the workbench for a while. When I returned, I cranked out this AFVClub Scorpion recon vehicle in a weekend.

Then came a Tamiya 4x20mm Mobelwagen and crew (apparently standing in the desert).

Then came the DML 105mm Howitzer, seen here on its celluclay base that has yet to be painted. Or I could just call it snow.

I had some fun with the AFVClub M35 quad-fifty gun truck. I named this imaginary vehicle after my wife's friend Shirley, who is quite the knitter.

Another offering from AFVClub, an M548A1 tracked cargo vehicle sporting the odd Seventh Army camo scheme of the mid-'70s.

Last but not least, an Academy Merkava III, with Legend ball and chain armor under the basket. What a pain in the tucchus THAT little endeavor was...and being the masochist that I am, I'm doing the same on the Merkava IV.

This gem should keep me occupied for the cold, snowy Amish Frontier winter. This is what my wife got me for Christmas.

Woah~ This is the Mother of all Armor threads! What a great idea. What a great look at a great bunch of modeling. Being a Dio & Vignette builder I don't have alot in the way of stand-alone models...let's see.

Tamiya's famous 105mm M4 Sherman with Eduard P.E. winterized  for my 3rd Diorama build

Ardennes, Dec.,1944  Seen in FSM Jan 2010, I was hard at work on it last year this time

Tamiya's Kpfw IV Ausf J with eduard P.E. & Academy stryene Indies, built for my 4 th Dio

 British Airborne Holland

Then I built 2 small 3"x3" vignettes with no armor in sight ( The Horror ! )

Russian Machine Gunner in Trench     A converted Hornet figure & DML Maxim Gun

Rudolf's Roadside Rant

Tamiya's 1/35 scale Citroen 11CV & Verlinden figure, for future untitled Dio project

Dragon's 7.5 cm Pak40  finished to the base coat for my current dio build ~! Clash in Tunisia !~

 Lion Roar / Great Wall Hobby BMW R75 also finished for the current build ......................................

 Tamiya's Kubelwagon type 82 with Verlinden & scratchbuilt updates

(see more  about this build in Diorama Forum   plugola!)   I'm going into 2010 half way through this Dio project. Somewhere around 2 more months with it. After this I have in mind  to do a Russian re-supply scene and a Bounce the Rhine Dio, although  there is a strong call to do more in the desert!      See ya there.................Indy

Righto,

I've been a WWI, WWII & Vietnam hobby historian for years and armour has always enthralled me so in May this year I decided to try my hand at modelling. I'm now totally hooked and am running out of space fast for all my paints, tools and kits!

My first EVER model - a Tamiya 1/48 Tiger I

 My second EVER - a Tamiya 1/48 Sherman IC Firefly

 My third - A Tamiya 1/35 M26 Pershing (I'm starting to improve a bit now and used MIG pigments here)

 My Fourth - A Tamiya 1/48 Flakpanzer 'Wirbelwind' and my first time using figures and also my first time brush painting Tamiya acrylics (not great), up to now I've been brush painting Humbrol enamels (the figure on the RHS has since has his helmet turned the right way round)!

My Fifth (and current favourite) - A Tamiya 1/35 Marder with whitewash

 The figures here have since been repainted and look a lot better

 This was my current WIP six weeks ago but I finished her yesterday-does she count? DML Mid-Production Brummbar....................

 Thanks for looking lads & a happy new year!

ATVB

Ben

Here are my 2009 armor builds. A bit on the lean side this year

Tamiya 1/35 Cromwell

Maquette 1/35 T-34/76 STZ 1941

Academy M12 GMC

I have so many near completion now that 2010 will have many more AFV kits... Happy New Years everyone!

The great builds keep piling up......nice to see all in a review....thanks guys!!

Rounds Complete!!

Hey guys,

Some super builds shown here so far-lovely work.

I must say I've noticed an abundance of Sturmtigers and inparticular the Tamiya 1/35 Marder-lot's f us decided to build that one this year.

I can't wait to see the 'builds from 2010' thread in 365 days time!

Happy New Year!

Ben

Lot's of great work in 2009 amigos!  This year wasn't quite as productive for me as I would have liked, too many other things keeping me from my work bench including some health problems.  Things are already looking up this year and I have lots of ship models in the works.  Here is what I managed to complete in 2009:

OK, here is what I built this year. Completed more kits this year then any other. Some really bad (see #1) and one the was OK. (See #4) Then 2 in between.

#1.) Tamiya 1/48 Tiger I (Much maligned here in the Armor forum and rightfully so!)

#2.) Tamiya 1/35 Jeep. (Had a number of problem with this one. But still better than the Tiger.)

#3.) The I-25 Eliminator (Scales vary. Built during 6 hour build get together at local hobby shop.)

#4.) Tamiya 1/48 Su-122. (This is a final pic after incorporating some weathering suggested by The Doog.)

Well, that's it. Not a totally great year. But I think I can honestly say the models got better as the year went on.

See ya

Scott

My humble models....

The wheels has been painted since

First try at chiped paint with hairspray

The right fender was dammaged upon arrival, got a new one but not yet installed.

Some really great stuff in here.I may as well add to it.Most of the projects that were finished are in G.B.'s..First was the panzer III Ausf. J .. Then a few panzer IV's ,first off an Ausf. G        Next was the Nashorn..   The up-gunned Ausf.D..  The 10.5 cm. Selbfahrlette Ausf B.. The Ausf.E needed a couple little details but was fairly finished. ..Many more smaller builds neared completion.Like about 10 or 15 of em. Hope to finish more .

I have worked hard but slowly, developing my figure skills a bit.  WHen the year started, I hadn't yet psinted a figure, now I have done 6 or so.

Here are the completed builds, first off something for the purists, I present the Princess Panzer, a DML Jagdtiger that my eight year old daughter wanted to build with me.  She picked colors, I followed orders.  IT is proudly displayed in her room, and she still tells people that she helped me build it:

  a Panther G Early, DML, 1/35, and a DML figure:

Not fantastic, but I am happy with it.

Actaully, the SHerman was built and painted first, then I did a bunch of stuff to it to try to get ready for a show, here's how he turned out with both figures and re painted stowage, aerial, a .50 collector's brass, a couple alpine dudes.  SO far, this is my favorite build;

Then the infamous armored avocado, a BA-20 that I scratchbuilt a motor for:

And finally, I finished this guy:

Lastly, I made some progress on this:

That's it for me!

Bill

I just went to page 1 and went through all the builds posted here again, since I missed the last few, and all i can do is quote the side of Maj. Preddy's P-51...

Cripes A'Mighty , there is some fine stuff here.

Well, it was a slow year for me, I built the Revellogram B-29. Unfortunately I don't seem to have the images on photobucket anymore. So my armor for the year was my M-7 Priest set in Sicily.

And those that did not get finished.

-Stephen

All of my armor is on page-5 of this forum under , dietailed interior tanks--railway guns--and scratch building   /forums/3.aspx?PageIndex=5&forumoptions=0:1:7:

Slow year for me but here goes!

And still on the bench;

Also just want to say, there are some great builds on this thread!

It would be great if FSM could print an article as a "year in review on the forums" or do a special issue or something...

Tom F.

WOW, some great work here, guys!

Here's my contribution for this year past...

NeoGrade Pz III Bergetiger conversion:

Sdkfz 251/17 w/ 2cm Schwebelafette

Panther ersatz M10

:In the Shadow of the Scarecrow' vignette

My Chevy S10 Brapwagen

and my Model T

WHAT THE....????  How did I miss this thread?!?   Guess thats what happens when you hang out in the Group Builds forum too much!

WOW, what amazing builds this year!!  Really really great stuff guys!

So here's what I finished in 2009:

Italeri M4A1 Sherman (started in 2006) for wyoroy's "No More Excuses" GB

Trumpeter KV-1 Small Turret (started in 2006) also for wyoroy's "No More Excuses" GB

AFV Club Sd.Kfz.251/20 Ausf. D for dupe's "251 Halftrack" GB

Tamiya JS-2 for espin1's "Red Storm On The Reich" GB

Dragon Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf. A Early for huxy's "Norway WWII" GB

Alan Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf. C (started in 2007).  Finished just for the heck of it!

And sadly, one I wasn't able to finish last year in time: a Coree Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. A for dupe's "1000 Roadwheels" GB.  This will be the first one finished for 2010

There is a stupendous amount of great builds listed here. I would like to add my 2009 collection, a very productive year for me as far as builds go:

Italeri 1/35 S-boat, Trumpeter 1/16 T-34, Zvezda Isu-152, Trumpeter E-100, E-25, KV-1 Beutepanzer.

Cheers,

Julian

Go big or go home Grem? Wow! And all those large kits in one calender year. Very impressive Especially the T-34 and the Scnellboot. Not to take away from any of the other work displayed by anyone here, but there is something to be said for very large kits.

sheesh, as I said, a very productive year................................

To be more honest on this one: my eye sight is not getting better and the bigger models are easier for me to see. At the moment I am working on the Revell Tirpitz, ( 1/350), and the PE set is murder .

regards,

Julian

Grem56--your S-boat is buetifull , whot is the tiatle of the thred in the ship forum you have posted the picturs of it on ?  I have a Trumpeter 1/16th. T-34/85 in my collection--but it is nothing next to yours.

Some very nice builds here.....it would appear to have been a very good year

I'm glad people keep finding this tread....its like the gift that keeps on giving

Rounds Complete!!

Thank you Santa, you can find the link to the S-100 build via my signature,

cheers,

Julian

Nice stuff, all!

Finished this year, maybe even also started this year:

Mostly Academy and Verlinden Magach 6C

Trump Tiran 5, mostly done before New Year's eve.

M48, from the Academy kit

Trump KV-1

Tamiya M4A3

Dragon M4 Composite, from the old Firefly hybrid kit.

Tamiya/Dragon M4A3/76

Tamiya (mostly) M4A3E2 Jumbo

M26, for the Endgame 46" GB

There's another Sherman or two finished that I don't have pics of, but this was a fairly productive year for me.

Am I a "thread killer"?

Hey RBaer!  I don't think you killed anything...maybe mid week forum doldrums??   I love your Shermans and really love the first one (Magach?).  Turan too!!

I guess I've got "new guy syndrome".

Thanks, Ernest. Back to the bench.....

Good Morning and s s *report me* belated New Year to the FSM Group,

It has been s s *report me* while but I have been reading the posts as often has I can. Here are my 2009 builds minus s s *report me* couple. My camera is going downhill and I need s s *report me* new one.

Thanks for looking,