a question about your future.......................

General Discussion General Modeling Discussion
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i am not someone who has a unlimited amount of kits…i have less than thirty unbuilt kits. but i was thinking about them and what kits i am looking forward to working on in 2005. so the question i have for you…

what kit(s) in your stash …not kits you want to buy…are you looking forward to the most?

for me there are two. the academy tiger I with full interior and the 1/700 uss arizona. strange from an a/c builder. those are the two i look forward to the most. the tiger will be a challenge to superdetail and the arizona will be a tough one in other ways.

so tell me how about you? which kit or kits are you looking forward to building in 2005?

joe

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I never plan very far in advance, other than for Group Builds, so I can’t say for sure. Every kit I buy, I plan on building, but it takes a lot less time to buy than build & I have a backlog of about 260 1/48 & 150 or so 1/72 AC. Probably the one I’ll build when the current bunch is off the bench is the Classic Air Frames 1/48 Boston Paul Defiant, as I don’t have a Defiant in my built up WW2 collection.

Regards, Rick

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I only have 5 kits in my stash and one in the postman’s hands. A product of the fact that I only returned to the hobby a short while ago, not because of suprhuman will power. For me its a toss up between the new Hasegawa He 111 H-6 or Revell’s Ju 290. I’ll probably do the He 111 first because It’s for the BofB GB.

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I would have to say the AMT 1/72 XB-70 Valkrie (it is one of those limited edition ones from a few years back)
The XB-70 was such a cool looking plane and idea, too bad it never went into production and even more that one of the two built was lost.

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I can’t decide, I have plenty of kits in the closet, just some require a “few” extra bucks to finish.

1/350 Arizona as of 1938 (needs about $40 in PE)
1/350 Franklin converted to a Korean War Oriskany (Needs about $200 in additional material and PE including a couple of quarts of Crown Royal)

1/96 Constitution converted to her 1812 appearance (Better add a few more quarts of CR to this project) Since it is a challenge to find infomation on the accurate colors.

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Well my DML Elefant is one of my oldest unbuilt kits, but will start her up in the Elefant G.B.in March. My other has to be the Academy Hellcat. Had a chance or two to start it, but I wanted to finish other builds first.

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I have only one unbuilt kit…the “Mayflower”. The one that seems to have always eluded completion. He-he-he.

No stash to really speak of.

SO my future depends on what I will see from the LHS that will capture my imagination and most of all…fit my budget…

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I looking forward to building my Spad S.A.4 and my Hansa Brandenburg D.I. I’m really looking forward to building both kits this year, especially Spad which I know will be tough.

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scott the 1/350 arizona would be a great build to see.

joe

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Only a few kits in the stash, but most eager to start Tamiya’s Abrams and Hummer with tow. Probably the hummer - it actually looks like a more challenging build than the abrams. Anyone done this kit yet?

Jim [:)]

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Well, I only have 4 kits in my collection, plus two that I’m building at the moment. I’d have to say that the one I’m looking forward to building most is the Accurate miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless that I picked up during the week. Then there’s the trumpeter 1/48 P-40B and Tamiya’s 1/12 Yamaha YZR-M1 and Academy 1/400 Titanic.

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You probably have ignored it, because it doesn’t have zimmerit and comes with no turrets and tracks

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tamiya 1/350th USS New Jersey. the biggest and hopefully the best from a mostly A/C modeller.

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I never know what my next project is going to be until I get close to finishing the current one, then I usually have a pretty good idea what I’m going to build next, of course one trip to the hobby shop for something simple like paint can change all that.

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I plan to build (finally) an academy B-17 and a finemold x-wing fighter. Its already been long overdue.

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I can safely say that they won’t be completed in 2005 as they are back in a box in Canada, but the two kits I’m most looking forward to starting are my Classic Airframes 1/48 F-5A with some aftermarket Canadian decals, and my Tamyia 1/35 Chieftain 5 MBT.

Things I’ve got a start on and most want to finish are my Revell 1/32 MiG-21 MF with some aftermarket Czech AF markings I got for it (that one’s been on and off the bench for 6 years now, lots of corrections) and my Airfix 1/48 Buccaneer which I will be doing as a hypothetical Canadian version, again, lots of correction work there.

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I’d have to say the Academy Tiger 1 Early with the interior. Can’t wait to get going on it, but it may be awhile because I’ve got other things on the go.

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Well to answer this question is hard.With so many kits,I don’t want to list them all but as for right now I guess I will start to finish the kits that I started on the road.
1.Shiden type 11 George
2.Hein Tony
3.Ju-88
These three I will finish up before I start anything else this year.May be I will start a ship after these three are done.All these aircraft are in 48 scale and my ships are in 350 scale.Digger

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When I finish the two that I am working on right now I am going to start on the Revel 1/48 Bf-110G. Not sure if I will start the G2 or the G-4 first. After that it will be either a JU-88 or a Tamyia Gekko, or Hawsaga Spitfire IXc. A Tamyia P-47 might slip in there somewhere as well. Not sure…time will tell.

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I’m going to dust off an EF-111 kit that has been sitting around for years. It isn’t a great kit but I need something to practice on so I can do justice to some of my more expensive kits.