Kallisti Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Ridiculous I hear you ask? Well its turning into my speciality, scratch building ridiculous bar armour, gigantic Thunderbird 2s and so on, so this year continues that general them and extends the them to breaking point... more of that later... The year started in December (!!) with my Spitfire build in tribute to Edgar Brookes which was eventually finished in January. I added the Standard Tilly from my earlier BoB build to make a more interesting setting for this Spitfire Vb from 122 Sqn, based at South Detling in Feb 1942, which is also part of the long term "Aircraft my Father fixed" project, more of which can be seen here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234926820-long-term-project-the-aircraft-of-my-father/ (Build thread here Next was a rush job as in the last week of January my pre-ordered Round 2/MPC 22" Eagle Transporter arrived - as far as I can tellt he first retail kit to arrive in the country! I'd actually finished the kit before the shipment to Timeless Hobbies had arrived I was also on a deadline to get this finished for the (last ever it turned out) Yeovilton show in February. (Build thread here) Next was my entry for the Made in Britain GB, the 1:16 Bandai Showmans Engine, which eventually won me a Silver medal at Telford! This is a very old kit which required a lot of work and of course stripping the gold and silver plating and redoing it plus scratch build detail of the generator (Build thread here) Next was a nice simple one after such a complex build as the Showmans engine so it was the 1:48 Hasegawa Hurricane IID, built as a 5 Sqn aircraft from Burma in early 1943, when my Dad was attached to 5 Sqn as an electrician, so this is another entry in my project "Aircraft my Father fixed" (RFI Thread here) After that bit of peace and quite, I just had to start the ridiculous again didn't I? It all started with the re-release of the Moebius Flying Sub kit from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I started adding LEDs to the interior and found I couldn't stop... 40-odd LEDs later and the internals were fully lit up and witihn a week the first LED failed in the engine at the rear (Build thread here) Back to something relatively normal next and a kit I bought a few years abck at the Tank museum, an AFV Club Centurion Mk 6 (RFI thread here) Next was a quick repeat build of something from the year before. At a show I was offered money for my Thunderbird 2 launch ramp diorama, but foolishly I said no! I then realised I could just build another but I didn't get the contact details of the potential buyer... oh well, so anyway , I decided it was time to stop talking abotu it and build it! This time I simplified and improved things over the previous version, not bothering to build the cockpit as you can't see it in the original build! I also made a better job of the electrics. (Build thread here RFI thread here) Now begins the real madness that typified the middle of the year, and I reckon Cthulhu and Telford was the major cause of this... This was the Reaper Minatures vinyl figure, with some experimental airbrush techniques... (Build thread here) So the next few builds were all focused towards Telford and the design of our club table, so I then built a diorama of a scene from a Thunderbirds episode called "Crash Dive" where the hypersonic airliner Fireflash crashes into the ocean and TB4 has to cut off the atomic engines in the tail... (Build thread here) ...and now came the major insanity of the year, a built that took over 3 months and cost me a fortune in bloody plastic tube!!! Yes in the ridiculousness that is the Revell North Cormorant Oil Platform! The major source of ridiculousness was of course my insane decision to scratch build the platform's jacket tot he sea bed to display on the club table at Telford... With a 1:48 scale Mustang to give it scale: (Build thread here RFI thread here) Okay so that didn't quite take the full 3 months to build, at the same time I build my second Round 2/MPC 22" Eagle Transporter. This was always intended to be entered into the competition at Telford, although there was a time when I wasn't sure I'd get it finished! Thankfully I did and I was overjoyed to see that it won the Gold medal for its class! Over the moon seems and appropriate statement!!! Penultimately for this year, is another nice simple build, inspired by my Air-Sea Rescue Avro Anson build from last year, an ASR Lysanderfrom 277 Sqn in 1:48 using the old Testors/hawk kit. I replaced the pilots, propellor with prop blur and scratch built the dingy under-pylon stores (RFI thread here) ...and finally, a little bit of fun. I enjoyed building the Aoshima Mole from Thunderbirds so much last year that I bought a couple more kits, with the intention of turnign one of the tractor units into a Firefly. What I then realised was I would have a spare Mole model, so it would make sense to build that kit in a certain manner.. .which I did, adding of course an obvious bit of insanity that turned out to be RATHER LOUD!! (Build thread here) and that is it, for now at least... Its been a fun if rather ridiculous year - and that was just my model making, lets not go into the ridiculous world events! I look forward (I think) to 2017! 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecov Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Stunning builds! I bet you are still counting oil rigs in your sleep! Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestar12chris Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Cracking output for 2016 Kallisti, well done. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin @ Freightdog Models Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 What a great output, consider me very jealous! Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Kunac-Tabinor Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Corr!!! Now thats what I call varied, but with one common thing: All VERY well made. Top effort sir! Jonners 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Chambers Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 That looks a very sensible build list to me,my builds this year were far more wacky LOL ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonT Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Ridiculous? No, just nuts (inspired)! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Nice variety of subjects, love the SciFi stuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Amazing in quality and quantity! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Impressive builds I liked the eagles and the oil rigging platform especially. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 modelling on a grand scale. Fantastic work, Cheers Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 A very varied and impressive set of builds for the year. Very well done. Kind regards, Stix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks guys, got one more to add now: Halcyon USS Sulaco from "Aliens": Note the tiny Dropship 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Holy Cow! Such output - are you a modelling automaton? The oil rig is just plain crazy, but I love it. I also think it's great to see someone who doesn't just model in one genre. The steam fire engine is beautiful! Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 Automaton? Not quite but this is what I enjoy doing and can find time to do it Its great seeing all the other Yearbooks this time of year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 On 18/12/2016 at 2:22 PM, Kallisti said: Note the tiny Dropship "We're in an express elevator to hell.....Going down!" Wonderfully eclectic collection sir.....All magnificent, but I think old tentacle face has to be my favourite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 All the effort was definitely worth it (and congratulations on the well-deserved Gold!). Cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 All lovely stuff, the Showman's traction engine, oil rig and Eagle are superb, but being an Anderson fan got to love the Mole and Fireflash too.....well done that man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beefy Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 What a great output for 2016, looking forward to seeing what you bring to the table for 2017. You can clearly see you are a very talented and accomplished model builder and across so many varieties of subjects. Your awards are very well deserved and rightly so. Roll on 2017. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Some great stuff there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG X Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 A very eclectic mix & all wonderful - impossible to pick a favourite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Marvellous madness!! Thoroughly entertaining and diverting mix, with some well-deserved awards too! Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 What a great way to approach modelling, the only limit is your imagination, I love it, a fine collection. Cheers Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 Thanks guys, I'm blushing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) One final addition to the output this year: Takon Chieftain Mk 5: RFI thread here ...and that WILL be it for this year. Edited December 30, 2016 by Kallisti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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