I love it when a plane comes together!

[klr]

... seriously.



... even though some of them drive me to distraction:



... and some make me question my very sanity:



Yes, that's what this thread is about. Once I get some better photos taken of kits already finished, and I actually get to finish some more, then this thread is really going to take off ...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was standing in a junkyard near here one day and a tornado blew through the place. It picked up random bits of debris and flung them together. When the tornado had passed there before me was complete 747.

Darwin so rocks!!!!

[klr]

I was standing in a junkyard near here one day and a tornado blew through the place. It picked up random bits of debris and flung them together. When the tornado had passed there before me was complete 747.

Darwin so rocks!!!!

If only assembling kits was that easy ...

[Tigger]

Great models!

[Bella Fortuna]

The harder part is going to be inventing a shrinking device so you can get yourself into them and fly them.

[klr]

Great models!

It's a toss-up as to which kit caused me the most grief:

1. The Brewster Buffalo: Painstakingly removing all those ***** rivets that infest so many old Airfix kits.

2. The Fieseler Storch: The paint scheme - of course.

3. The Potez 540 (for that is what it is): All that bloody framing for the windows and turrets. Hand-painted ... of course.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was standing in a junkyard near here one day and a tornado blew through the place. It picked up random bits of debris and flung them together. When the tornado had passed there before me was complete 747.

Darwin so rocks!!!!

If only assembling kits was that easy ...

Where's the fun in that?

My own modeling career seems to have striven to verify the existence of the LePage Glue Gun.

[klr]

I was standing in a junkyard near here one day and a tornado blew through the place. It picked up random bits of debris and flung them together. When the tornado had passed there before me was complete 747.

Darwin so rocks!!!!

If only assembling kits was that easy ...

Where's the fun in that?

My own modeling career seems to have striven to verify the existence of the LePage Glue Gun.

I have a couple of German railway guns ... unbuilt of course.

I'm not sure how much time I spent on this Canberra, but I think it was the best part of 100 hours:

[Tigger]

I had a good friend who made Airfix models and took hours over them. These are superb.

[Clinton Huxley]

Nice work, old chap. I remember assembling a Lancaster bomber Airfix kit and it was a shambles. Looked like a fellow who'd been convicted twice for stealing in Saudi Arabia had made it...

[klr]

Nice work, old chap. I remember assembling a Lancaster bomber Airfix kit and it was a shambles. Looked like a fellow who'd been convicted twice for stealing in Saudi Arabia had made it...

Actually, the Airfix Lancaster (the current kit, not the really, really, really old one) is still a nice kit, if a tad pricey compared to the much newer and fancier Revell kit. There's also a Hasegawa kit, but you might need to take out another mortgage if you want to buy that.

I have two of the Airfix Lancasters (bought on the cheap), but I have yet to build them. I built the "old" Revell Lancaster back in the mid-1980's, and the "old" Revell Focke-Wulf Condor at the same time (it too has been replaced by a new kit). Both kits were absolute horrors.

[Hermit]

It's a toss-up as to which kit caused me the most grief:

[...]

2. The Fieseler Storch: The paint scheme - of course.

Excellent job, Kevin. There are alternative paint schemes. I suppose you know that. Here's one: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/ ... Storch.jpg

[Rum]

This was a hobby of mine when I was a kid. Suffering as I think I did from ADHD (undiagnosed in those days thank god), it was about the worst hobby I could have had! I used to get glue everywhere, be inpatient for it to set and paint (badly) on bits of plastic with wet glue on them! Fiddly bits like the struts and the canopies used to drive me nuts!

The most fun I had with them was putting fire crackers in them, setting the fuse and throwing them in the air to watch them explode as if they had been hit by flak!

[Faithfree]

Good work, klr!

I tried making a few model planes as a kid, but just ended up making a mess with glue everywhere.


I have just finished scanning some plane photos my father took in the 1950s. Stuffed if I know what most of them are. Perhaps I should post them for the plane enthusiasts to identify.

[klr]

It's a toss-up as to which kit caused me the most grief:

[...]

2. The Fieseler Storch: The paint scheme - of course.

Excellent job, Kevin. There are alternative paint schemes. I suppose you know that. Here's one: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/ ... Storch.jpg

I know, but I just had to go for that one. I have other Storches yet to build, including one with skis and a winter camouflage, and a post-war French version with a different engine and a fetching chocolate finish ...