best model

Lets see... I scratch-built a 1/700 scale USS Vincennes many years back (I was about 80% complete when Skywave shoved a kit down my throat), and sometime in the early 90s, a 32nd scale Revell F-18 updated to the FA-18A standard (new leading edges, hardpoints, cockpit, LEX, etc.; and then Academy comes along).

But Id like to believe that the topic answers only the best built YET. Hopefully, we should all come out with even better models as time goes on.


Robert,

That is one fine Churchill! Very nice!

Intresting madels!

Tamiya's 1/35 German motorcylce with sidecar. I used it in diorama and had soldiers pushing it through the mud. I won a couple of competitions with it. I was really proud of that model and diorama. I had worked so long and hard on it. It took trophys in the diorama class (against some pretty nice pieces done by adults at the time), junior modelers class and an award for best new modeler.

Sadly it was lost. A victim of my fathers overexhuberance to get rid of things in the house when he and my mom retired and moved. Ah well. Maybe I could redo that piece from years gone by.

Mike

well the best model i ever did would either be the Tamiya 88mm gun or Stug III G and maybe the sherman. for ships it would be a USS Missouri, and for cars it was a 1969 Camero SS convertible, soon to be one of the US Army sponsered Top Fuel Drag Racer which I saw in the Mile High Nationals about a week ago, quite impressive[:0].

My personal favourite was a kit I did about 8 years ago.

I back-dated a Tamiya Churchill VII to a III with a scratch-built interior. It's one of the few times that I built a kit to represent an actual vehicle based on a picture.
It represents a Canadian Churchill at Dieppe.