airscale Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Tamiya F7F Tigercat - Item #60325 HPH - Blenheim / Hampden - Item #HpHa002/3 Zoukie-Maru - DH Mosquito - Item #SWS08 Silver Wings - Fairey Albacore - Item #32-013 Hasegawa - Gulfstream G6 - Item #HSGS08234 Revell - Junkers Ju388 - Item #80-4378 HK Models - Handley Page Hastings C2 - Item #01E07 ...fantasy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lud13 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Ehmmm...... Ik-3 injection , got resin one but am afraid to look at it...my skills are not great with resin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahernandez Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Daimler Benz Bomber Project B or almost anything else in Luft '46! Mark H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 100 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Scratchbuild..... Free yourself from the manacles and chains of waiting and hoping that some kit manufacturing accounts department is ever going to get a dose of genuine inspiration. I know it happens occasionally, but at 55, I've realised if you really want something, crack on and do it yourself. And before you say I can't, or I don't have the time, consider this. If it takes you a year to build it, that is still at least 9 years less than waiting for an injection moulded kit... Tim The Revell 1/32nd scale F-4J Phantom I built back in 1975/'76 introduced me to the true meaning of the term scratch-building. I was fortunate enough in two areas of this build. 1) My buddy and fellow model builder had two older brothers who were master model builders help me. 2) Since I was a U.S. Navy brat at the time, I had access to not only NAS Mira Mar, but also the flight line where F-4J's were stationed ! My biggest/fondest memory of that build were the ejection seats that I highly modified/built. I was so proud of them that I didn't want to put them in the plane. I wanted to display it as a model itself ! As a matter of fact, I believe that was also my introduction to airbrush painting too because up until that model all painting was done by rattle can and paint brush. I started that model in the Fall of 1975 and finished it around mid-Summer 1976. I was 10 years old when I started and finished it when I was 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 A saab Viggen would be A W E S O M E......... Agreed, as would be an F-102 or Mirage 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Agreed, as would be an F-102 or Mirage 2000. Yep...when you're right you're right, but then add the "106" to it as well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I'm planning on scratch building a An-28 & Short Skyvan, these two are high on my list...Skyvan being first. I would love to see a 1/32nd scale Twin Otter, Beaver & Otter. There are more so I will quote myself later and add when I have a proper think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Yep...when you're right you're right, but then add the "106" to it as well.... And an F-101 Voodoo to "round out" the Century series. (I have to ask myself though if I'd ever actually buy/build all these aircraft kits I want to see produced. I've sold off a large percentage of my kits already, and have avoided adding several more to the stash, many of which are models I begged for for years, and are now finally available.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I'm planning on scratch building a An-28 & Short Skyvan, these two are high on my list...Skyvan being first. I would love to see a 1/32nd scale Twin Otter, Beaver & Otter. There are more so I will quote myself later and add when I have a proper think. An-32 in Indian AF colours Mig-25 IL-18/IL-38 Coot/May Lun Ekranoplan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssculptor Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I NEED TIME TO MAKE MODELS, DAMMIT. That is my fantasy. I need money so I have been taking on clients and am spending all my time drafting (AutoCAD) and designing small devices and taking them through the prototype process for various clients. I have reconciled my urge to make models with my need to make sculpture by combining them together (talk about fantasy aircraft ! ) but I need the time to construct them. All I am doing is making money to pay off my debts. See what happens when a man-child grows up and faces the mu$ic? Old Peter Pan is caught on the hook of mean, nasty Captain Hook and cannot wriggle off. My profligate ways have caught up with me. Well, at least I no longer have to worry about being a fine scale modeler. That is out. Not important enough. Besides, I have had a lifetime of making scale model of airplanes. Now I'll make my own airplanes. But I need the time. I need a 48 hour day and an 8 day week. Oh well. Such is life. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuildAero Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Stephen, I think we all think that way. I am so busy it's crazy, but a man's gotta live, eh? In the car design game, I used to be a clay and hard modeller. I got a name for making mechanisms by hand the hard way, usually before the engineers had got a few lines on CATIA. It used to really pee off the big guns. They were paying huge licences for software and this cocky Englishman comes along and has a rolling DVD screen in the dashboard of a Passat before the engineer has even sketched out his thoughts! And it worked. So the other guys (mainly East Germans) started calling me "Mekanist" or "Kunstler" or Mechanical Martin! When I designed a mechanism to push a Palm computer out of the dashboard and got a patent for it one afternoon the Chief Engineer got so annoyed he disappeared for four days in a huff! So here I am, designated inventor on a VW patent and not a bloody penny have I seen for it! Now I spend my time in my own little world trying to make it littler. As you say, such is life! Cheers, Martin Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Martin, I really like that story. It is wonderful to work with people who "do" things as opposed to "plan" things. I end up too much in the "planning" things on my models, while I have to "do" things at work. Maybe that is relaxing for me? Stephen, there are always multiple priorities that pull us in eleven different ways. I just try to enjoy what I can for as long as I can. Tnarg Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Horton 229 Star Wars A wing Star Wars B wing Star Wars Y wing B-5 Narn fighter Any of the Russian fighters Japanese Val Japanese Kate Tamyia Macchi 202 Tamyia FW-190 A4 The list could go on and on... Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Star Wars Y wing Yeah!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 A 1:1 working version of me, so I can get some building done and still keep up with work. I've barely touched plastic in the last 8 months mark31, Kagemusha and LSP_K2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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