'Twas a Good Year

OK wild Bill, I'll bite..beware there will be WINGY THINGY'S....

The DML Aufklarungspanzer:

The Hasegawa 1/32nd P-47D:

DML Premium Panther A, w/interior:

Hasegawa P-39Q in 1/48th:

Tasca Firefly:

The DML Kursk Panther D:

Tamiya Marder IIIM:

Hasegawa Fw-190D9 in 1/32nd:

Happy Holidays!

Steve

Its the quality thats counts Bill and you have cranked out some beauties this year, i have really enjoyed following the build blogs and look forward to seeing the marder in print, great job.

Steve same for you man, you have really put out some beautiful models even the wingy things look good and you also made the mag congrads to you both again and here's to what 2008 will bring  .

Fantastic Bill and Steve. I love them all. Special kudos to Steve's FW-190 D. Yes, I really love them.

Count me in!  Not a whole lot for me, since I lost the modelling bug from March or so through around July, but I'm back in the swing o' things.

 Not quite finished: Bronco Comet

WIP scratchbuild SADF Buffel

 Skif T-64B

 

 Tamiya Sd.kfz 250/9

Tamiya Matilda

Trumpeter KV-2

Italeri Technical mini-conversion/ in WIP diorama:

 

Skif BTR-152E

ICM T-35

 

Wow Ian, that Matilda is the pick of the litter for me. It just stands out ....not to take away from the rest of those beauties. That Comet is way cool. I really started getting interested in the Comet after I saw an episode on the miltary channel where one was being restored.

Great work man,

 

regards,

Steve

Thanks Steve!  The old Tamiya 'Tilly deffinately shows it's age in a couple places, but it was lt was fun getting to try my hand at desert weathering, plus it was only $12, can't argue with that. 

Some nice work there Steve, even if it does include wingies!

Nice to see yours as well Tigerman and Ian, some work in there that I hadn't seen or missed, nice to see it all in once place.

Well, I am nowhere near the same class as the owners of all the previous builds, but here are some pics of my (photographed) builds for the year. I hope to finish my current build, a Hasegawa 155mm Long Tom before the end of the year. Missing in this line up are a Hasegawa 1:72 (1:70ish) M4A3E8 Sherman and a Heller Dewoitine D.510 which built up well but the decals could not be bleached enough to remove the brown tint.

The armour is in order of construction. Hopefully there might seem to be an improvement in my armour building and finishing skills! I have learned a great deal from all this year, particularly the doog and I would like to sincerely thank everyone that has helped me along my new journey building armour. Aircraft modelling is different in many ways to building armour.

1:72 Matchbox T-80BV



1:72 Dragon T-34/85


1:72 Trumpeter JS-3M "Pike"


Trumpeter 1:72 12.8cm Selbstfahrlafette auf VK3001(H) "Sturer Emil"



1:144 Bombardier Challenger CL604 "Swiss Air Ambulance"


1:72 Hobby Boss P-47D Thunderbolt Easy-kit (24 hours over a month, non-fussy build)


Cheers

Mike

Eric, that Marder looks incredible, Have you posted all these before?

 

Steve

wbill76 wrote:

Some nice work there Steve, even if it does include wingies!

Right back At ya Bill!  Your StuG is what I want for Xmas..kudos brother!

Steve

Eric you have built some awesome looking models my friend with some excellent finishes i really like your paint schemes and how you blend them in and the KV broke new ground for you with some great weathering, well done.

Ian a great year for you, the have really got a knack for the weathering and beating down of these things, great job i too love the matty, i look forward to seeing the comet done.    

 

Well i have had a terrific year and really enjoyed all of it, out of the following models 3 of them were full build/review articles, 2 were weathering articles and 1 was a short article all published on armorama and im kinda proud of that as writing is not one of my strong points, here they are some better than others but i try finish everything i start no matter how bad it is, bottom line is they were all fun to do.

#1  alans zis-5 truck

#2  Trumpeter's Hotchkiss, 7.5cm auf Geschutzwagen 39H

#3  maquette's 38T G

#4  tamiya's char B1

#5  T34/85 w/bedspring armor

#6  Tamiya Tiger 1 late

#7  Mirage Vickers E

#8  Tamiya 222

#9  Dragons Jagdpanzer

#10 Alan's Panzer I Ausf. F

#11 Dragons JSU-122

#12 Tamiya Pershing

#13 Italeri's 6Rad

#14 Dragons premium Nashorn

#15 Dragons Bergepanzer tiger (p)

#16 Tamiya,s/Alan kitbash  pz II f/g

#17 Maquette's T-37a

#18 Tamiya's Centaur

#19 dragon's pzbeobwg. III ausf. H

#20 Alan's Grille-M

#21 Dragon Tiger 1 late

#22 Miniart T-70

#23 Dragons  234/3

#24 Tamiya's Hetzer

#25 Italeri's panzer IV H

#26 Dragons Jagdtiger

#27 Bronco's h39 Hotchkiss

#28 Maquettes 3,7cm pak35/36 auf artilleria schlepper 603(r)

#29 Italeri's M8 greyhound

That is awesome work Mike in fact some of the best small scale i have seen you guys amaze me with what you do with these tiny things.

Wow...some OUTSTANDING work in here! What a variety of nice models.  Ron, looks like you now have the third largest army in the world, after the United States and China...

That Zis-5 still is my favorite I think.  Even among all of your famously (infamously? ) well weathered builds, that one in specific just looks absolutely stunning. I like how you leave a bit of "sheen" on your russian green/dark green subjects, looks much more like metal than pure flat.  You can see this especially well on the pershing.

crockett wrote:

Eric, that Marder looks incredible, Have you posted all these before?   Steve

Thank you Steve. I built it for the Italeri GB back in February. I wish I did some of things that I recently did to my Trumpy KV. Here's a few more:

I must say the work here is stunning. So many inspiring builds that it motivates me to try harder next year.

That looks great Eric, thanks for those extra shots.

You know, I think these models  show the rest of the "community" that there are some top notch modelers here @ FineScale. I might also add that if the editors of the magazine don't publish this stuff, they are making a huge blunder. Just think how cool a "2007 wrap up" feature would be. These builds need to go public IMHO.

Great work all,

 

Steve

crockett wrote:

That looks great Eric, thanks for those extra shots. You know, I think these models  show the rest of the "community" that there are some top notch modelers here @ FineScale. I might also add that if the editors of the magazine don't publish this stuff, they are making a huge blunder. Just think how cool a "2007 wrap up" feature would be. These builds need to go public IMHO. Great work all,   Steve

Some of you already have.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

May I join the show here? Here we go...

Trumpeter 1/35 Panzer Grenadiers Poland, 1939

Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Mustang IA

Tamiya 1/35 M8 Greyhound

Italeri 1/35 M20 Armored Utility Car

Skif 1/35 T-64BV

Hobbycraft 1/48 Bf-109E-3

DML 1/35 IS-2

And lastly, Skif 1/35 2S1 122mm SP gun

 

 

I wanna!

Don't worry, my year's output was pathetic. Since April, I have ground to a halt as far as finishing things.

 

Steve

 

 

Luckily for me I'm camped out at the Subaru dealership getting some work done. Lucky, because they have some pretty speedy broadband that puts my crap dialup to shame! Without it I wouldn't have gotten to look at all of these builds...man, they're amazing! I know I've seen some of them before (certainly not all though) but seeing them in a massive group is just further proof of some spectacular stuff coming through this forum.

Biffa, you're a MACHINE. 29 finished, not a dog amongst them...you even finished the new DML Tiger Late? Have we seen that before? The darn kit just came out!

to all of you. Great stuff!!!  

Truly inspirational work from all of you.....

I have to say that my own work has improved since I started lurking here. The openness that is displayed by all of you in sharing techniques and results is great.

Ive not done much armor but like to think that what i have done has improved from model to model. With much thx to you guys. Ive done the plane equivelant to Biffa (Not as quality though, just numbers)

Anyways heres my armor efforts, mistakes an all.

...Guy

 

I really love this one. Of course, I'm a sucker for Pz. III's.

One thing that I appreciate, is that everyone has their own style that makes every build unique. Great job guys.

hey guys--

for me it was my usual snails' pace!!---I finally finished the T-34/85 in June or July, then jumped on board with the Kursk GB and did my KV-1 simplified turret-- Thats it-- but i did get a panzer I ausf a 2/3 finished, another KV-1 (Ehkranami) thats ready for paint,an JSII I am still gettin some parts for --also a big Sherman in future that I am still tracking down some parts on-- It has been a fun, rewarding year for me. Currently I have lost my modelling space and TIME due to some remodeling my wife and I are doing, but hope to get going better after the end of January-the abundance of talent here at FSM is certainly reflected on this thread!!-- KUDOS TO YOU ALL--my mentors-- my comrades--tread

tigerman wrote:

I really love this one. Of course, I'm a sucker for Pz. III's. One thing that I appreciate, is that everyone has their own style that makes every build unique. Great job guys.

 

Not only that, but the whole dio is superb.

PzIII's are a fav of mine also.

cheers

Mike 

As for me I only got four builds done and all aircraft.If ya'll want when I get home I can post them.Digger

Wow, thanks T-man and Mike. Have to admit, pretty much worked straight from wbill's PZ III WIP from last year... credit goes to him. I am very warm on Mark IIIs, as well.  Luftwoller, luv your Pz IV.

Sure wish I could detail a beast like all of you guys, especially you, tread. I stare at your pics until I don't remember what day it is.

Steve

 

 

I'll bite.....

          Formations M5A1 Conversion

       Dragon Pz lll K

    Tamiya Early Tiger

   And GASP! A VOR'CHA Class Klingon Cruiser

wow,great looking builds here fellas,looking at what iv'e started which adds up to 32. and what i can consider finished,perhaps 4 .all my work i guess is still in progress.but as it is said about street rods and such some are never finished.i guess i'll go build something.its truly been great to spend so much time in the company of people such as yourselves.i have seen ,heard and done things i would never have imagined w/o this here confuser.merry x-mas and happy new year.looking forward to many more .greg