Whats everyone building???

Now I'm on the Scharnhorst.

I really need to focus, but I'll just list a few of my "started" kits:

Amsterdam R/C tug, Pyro Dhow, Pyro Venetian Carrack, Heller Aurora, Amati Sharpie, Pyro Schooner Elsie, Heller Mataro, Camel Lighter, Lindberg 1/20 Chris Craft Constellation R/C, Lindberg Tuna Clipper (micro R/C), Lindberg Shrimp boat (micro R/C), Revell Firefighter (micro R/C), ITC yacht Corsair II..... you get the idea. I've quit opening new boxes until I get a few of these done.

ERic

Currently doing Revell AG HMS Victory. Not a bad kit.

Dave

I'm converting the eternal Revell Arizona to USS Oklahoma and have shaved off the railings and details in prep for GMM brass.

I'm building the Banner 1/350th USS Arizona. I'm using Gold Medal photo-etch and I will also attempt a complete "Deckectomy" using scribed sheet stock. I think I'm also going to replace a good portion of the superstructure as well. I plan on giving this to my sister as a gift when she retires from the Navy this fall after 20 years of service.

I'm working on a set of Mirage 1/400 U-Boats:

- U-149 (type IID);
- U-570 (type VIIC - early war version);
- U-826 (type VIIC - late war version);
- U-176 (type IXC).

Glad I didn't go for the 1/700 scale!

About a year ago I got a 1/72 Combat Models Mk IX c U- Boat off of E-Bay (my first vaccuform kit) since completed. Included within was an Amati Mk VII b conning tower that the seller had sent as a means to modify into a Mk IX b conning tower. I used the vaccuform parts and built her up as a Mk IX c, and put the sail into my parts box. A couple of months ago I came across an Amati U-47 hull again on E-Bay, and picked it up for a minimal bid. The last month has been spent scratchbuilding the upper hull. I used the Natilus wooden deck and styrene strip, worked to add the upper limber holes, to form the upper hull. All the control surfaces have been carved out of thick styrene sheet and are about ready to add to the hull. Right now I am getting ready to scratchbuild the 88 mm deck gun, and I figure at my rate of work she's abut a month out. At that point I'll have the Mk IX, The Revell Mk VII c, and the composite Mk VII b to display. The room is starting to look like a U-Boat pen. I find a great deal of satisfaction in salvaging kits that become available. Often it is an ecenomicaly beneficial deal too. My present budget would just not provide the funds to purchase an all up Amati kit. So, now I have another project to scratchbuild parts for!

I am currently finishing Italeri's M4A1 Sherman as US Ardennes theme. Just needing to whitewash. Also have some work to do on a Russian front dio. Has a Zvezda T34, Russian troops and a couple pesky Germans with a Panzerfaust. Have to do some work on my scratch built building.

Hasty

I'm building the AK-99 Bootes from Skywave.

Just finished up the Trumpeter Type XXI U-boat-
Had to modify the stern because it was supposed to be motorized-still isn't perfect but not too bad-finished as the U-2511-only one of it's type to go on a war patrol-had to use this kit as it was full hull-the old Revell kit is gone into the ether and impossible to find.
If you do this one-don't go to the effort to make those dumb handrails-these are ONLY for the Wilhelm Bauer which is sitting as a museum ship-keeps the tourists from falling into the drink.

NOTHING!!!!!!! I just returned from a show and have no ship "on the ways" yet.
I do need to finish Ki-61 Toney and a rework of "zero" for a show soon. Then it's either a 1/700 japanese cruiser, a 1/400 adm. scheer or a 1/350 russian aurora cruiser (if squadron ever gets them) along with some armor and aircraft.
G.L.

QUOTE: Originally posted by fusoPagoda Fujimi Hiei in 700 scale -- and it's a dog. Needs PE to make it look halfway decent, but I'll cut my losses and build straight from the box. Too bad it's not available in 350 (or any other relatively obscure WW2 ship, either) with more detail. Looks like the kit manufacturers are abandoning ships. I'd love to get Revell's Queen Mary, as I've been to the real thing in Long Beach, California.

I built that one. It was fun and easy to build. It really looks great on the entertainment center. I highly recommend it.

Fujimi Hiei in 700 scale -- and it's a dog. Needs PE to make it look halfway decent, but I'll cut my losses and build straight from the box.

Too bad it's not available in 350 (or any other relatively obscure WW2 ship, either) with more detail. Looks like the kit manufacturers are abandoning ships.

I'd love to get Revell's Queen Mary, as I've been to the real thing in Long Beach, California.

Well, I just found this Thread after reading the FSM Newsletter. Here are my projects I'm working on.

In addition to the three 1/72 scale armor kits, and two 1/72 scale aircraft kits, I've been working on a couple of ships. The fiorst one is the Revell 1/542 Titanic that I'm building for my brother in Ohio. It is all done except for the rigging.

I am also now about halfway done with Trumpeter's 1/500 scale USS John C Stennis. I had to paint all the lines on the deck since they did not include decals for that. To see my Progress so far, check out this thread:

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39684

After that, I plan on transplanting the Trumpeter motor and wires that were included in the Stennis into a Lindbergh paddlewheeler steamboat that is able to be motorized. I have already started some preliminary construction on that kit.

That is what I've been doing so far.

I,m gathering together material for a 1/350 Zuikaku scratchbuilding project. What with the new 1/350 carriers produced by Trumpeter, this ship should fit quite well into the genre.

HI I AM CURRNETLY DOING 2 PT BOATS ONE AS PT 109 OTHER PT 157 BOTH KITS BY REVELL ALSO THEY ARE MADE IN 1963 THATS THE PT 109 THERE OTHER WAS MADE IN 1973 NOW IAM JUST STARTING ON THEM BUT IVE FOUND LOTS OF PROBLEMS WITH THEM AS THEY HAVE MISSING WINDOWS PLUS MISSING EQUIPTMENT AS WELL.
AMY WAY I LOVE DOING RESEARCH ON EM AND LIKE PLANES IN 1/32 SCALE WW2
HAPPY MODELLING
SEAN SEWELL

i was finishing up my 1/720 graf spee, but now am switching over to a nichimo 1/350 IJN Zuikaku for the pearl harbor GB..only 4 months to build this beauty..i have to order a few more planes though...so it's going to be close.

Getting back into modeling after ... a very long time. My first effort is a 1/700 Victory ship resin kit from Loose Cannon Productions. My first reaction on opening the box was, OMG, this thing is TINY!!!! ... and my second was, But what else do you have to do in the evenings? There have been some missteps, some missing parts that were found, some parts that are apparently gone forever, but after two weeks, it IS starting to look like a Victory ship.

I'm completing the bases for my 1/700 Tamyia Yamato and Matchbox (I know...I know) DoY into KGV, and still woriking on a 1/700 Tamyia Enterprise. No Im not busy not at all.

I have started assembling the aircraft wing for my Trumpeter 350 scale Nimitz. Decided to stay in theme and purchased additional F-4, A-7, and A-6 sets for it. Figure I'll have the basic aircrat finished by this weekend so i can paint the upper area, then I'll flip and whiten the bellies and add the wheels and such over the coming couple of weeks. Hopefully have ALL aircraft done and ready by end of April when I shall commence construction of the ship itself. Man what a magnificent kit

QUOTE: Originally posted by albert_sy2 I'm usually a fighterplane builder, but for a break I decided to build a Revell U-47 "Gunther Prien" 1:125 scale Type VIIB u-boat. What do you guys to use recommend for rigging? I'm thinking of either fishing line or nylon thread.

i normally used black sewing thread..its pretty thin and easy to work with..a small dab of glue is all it takes to hold some rigging knots in place

I'm usually a fighterplane builder, but for a break I decided to build a Revell U-47 "Gunther Prien" 1:125 scale Type VIIB u-boat. What do you guys to use recommend for rigging? I'm thinking of either fishing line or nylon thread.

I'm working on many things, but since this is the boat-departement, I suppose you only want to know what ships we're working on.
This is a project I'm doing together with my wife Pat ; we're building the HMS Pandora. It's her first wooden model and it's coming along nicely.

im working on the Graf Zeppelin, which is a 1/400 scale..next i think i will either do the Shokaku or Yamato, which are both 1/350 scale..im still debating what to work on next..I have 13 ships and 4 planes to choose from

Fujimi's Hiei w/o photoetch parts. Maybe another one later in the year with pe.

I am converting a 1/700 scale Waveline USS Leahy into a USS Belknap. I am still doing measurements from drawings and looking at pictures. I will need to scratch build the hanger and the helecoptor pad. Most of the other parts I can take from a Skywave spare parts kit.

Just completed the Trumpeter U2518-Type XXI U-boat. This is a retool of the Revell Germany U2518 kit-Full hull.
Trumpeter turned this into a motorized job and changed the stern so much that it is virtually impossible to convert it back with 100% accuracy to a real Type XXI but I came close-such fun. I chose to model the U2511 which was one of only two of the type to make an actual war patrol. U2511 had a black band just below the waterline separating the dark gray lower hull from the light gray upper-nice scheme.
The kit fits together well and is good sized at 1/144th scale-I have never found an accurate gray to use for the upper works of German U boats so I use Southern Pacific lettering gray-looks good compared to photos I have seen of other completed kits-used pastels to simulate rust streaks from the limber holes, and an engineering pencil to highlight details of limber holes, deck hatches etc.- If you build this or the Revell kit-don't go to the trouble to put all of the railings on the ship. The type XXI had none in actual use-the railings are an add on when the U2540 became a museum ship to prevent the tourists from falling overboard, somehow these railings became incorporated into the instructions.
Next kit is the Skywave I-400 full hulls that just came out-1/700 scale-This little gem is comparable in size to a Los Angeles class attack sub in the same scale.-yikes.

I'm doin' a 1:700 IJN Chiyoda Seaplane Tender. Upgrading wherever I can, as it's a bit soft on detail (old Aoshima kit...) Leviathan detail set, Tom's Model Works set and a bunch of reference material to go on. Very unique lookin' ship!......

Could not resist BlueJacket's pilot boat MARY TAYLOR. Put aside my San Francisco scow schooner for now and have started on this 1/64 scale beauty. I have always had a liking for the pilot boats since working for the former A.J.Fisher on the plans and directions for the JOHN McKEON and DANCING FEATHER. I plan to kitbash this model somewhat because the plans by C.G.Davis were drawn in 1922 and do not contain the advantage of subsequent research on this type of vessel.

Al Blevins

I'm trying to build some Sumner class fram'd 2, any scale......does anyone can help to find a good source of plans, exactly as this?........I thpught about Bob Sumrall book for Allen Sumner but I don't know if it comes with schematics for FRAM 2, the Floating Drydock doesn't specify some kind of plans and I can say I need the FRAM 2 plans for this kind of ships.....I'm about to built these models as they apeared in Brazilian Navy...in the 70's.............thanks for attention