Stew Dapple Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Once again had a good start to the year and a disappointing end, but so it goes. January: Hasegawa 1/72 Kawanishi H8K2 Emily: A really nice kit - build thread here, and RFI pics here 1/72 Arma Hobby PZL P.7a: This was a gift from our much-respected and admired forum-buddy Procopius; another lovely kit and extremely well engineered, it was a pleasure to build, which bodes well for their new Hurricane kit. RFI pics here February: 1/72 Hasegawa Kawanishi H8K1 Emily: This is the Emily that I would have built first, and indeed it would have been the only one I'd built, if I'd known Hasegawa were going to release one. I do like the H8K2 variant but I like my aircraft 'clean' and without the whiskery radar array fitted to the nose of the later H8K2s, I prefer the rather more pert nose of the earlier Emily and also like the Vickers K-type guns fitted in the nose and side blister positions. Anyway building two Emilys in rapid succession might seem excessive but I regret nothing More pics here March: 1/72 Airfix Nakajima B5N2 'Kate': To be honest I only built this as a test-run for spraying the national markings for a following build (the Hasegawa 1/32 'Jack'), but I am pleased with how it came out. The Airfix Kate is another one of those kits that is just a pleasure to build. RFI pics here April: U.S.S. Pennsylvania BB-38 1944 - 1/700 Dragon Modern Sea Power Series: I built this at Jamie (of Sovereign Hobbies fame)'s request in an awful hurry prior to the Scottish Nationals Model Show in Perth at the end of April 2018. It's well outside my usual area of interest and I didn't do a particularly good job even taking into account the time restraints, but here we are anyway. More pics here. It was built to take it's place in the Sovereign Hobbies enormous Battleships game which drew many admiring glances at the show - Gill and Jamie built all the other ships: May: 1/72 Eduard Grumman F6F-3 & F6F-5 Hellcats These two were built for the "Carriers Ahoy" Group Build: More pics here and here June: 1/32 Hasegawa Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden 'Jack': I dont know why I suddenly decided to build a 1/32 aircraft, but it was an interesting experience. Build thread here and more RFI pics here August: 1/72 Tamiya Kawasaki Ki-61-Id Hien 'Tony' x 2: One of these was a gift from our esteemed forum-buddy Cookenbacher and the other a drunken midnight internet order gift from Past Me. I don't suppose I really need say much about the famously precise and beautiful Tamiya engineering and the kits cover and signpost the variations in production between the various schemes very clearly. Build thread is here and more RFI pics here and here ... and that's as far as I got aside from a couple of disappointingly unfinished Group Builds; I didn't so much hit the wall as ran face-first straight into it and haven't done anything other than a bit of desultory tinkering around since then. Hopefully I will face 2019 reinvigorated and ready to get back on the bench properly again. Anyway ten completions is a marginal improvement on last year's nine, so I should be grateful for small mercies. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you all next year. Cheers, Stew 43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Lovely work Stew, I really get a kick out of the life size battleship game. Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 PTO theme park 😀 Great work there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Quality over quantity Stew, all of them are very smart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Still a great collection for the year Stew. Impressive modelling as always! Kind regards, Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie(kinda) Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Impressive! Those Emilys look HUGE! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 10, if I count correctly. That's hardly a squib, I have (almost) managed 2 complete new builds and 2 finishes from old GB entries. 10 is a number that I can but dream of, and so well executed as well! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 They are all lovely Stew,...... I do especially like the Emily, Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Nicely done, Stew! Good job on the Pennsylvania too. Mike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Ten is quite an output Stew, especially when two have four engines and the Pennsylvania alone dwarfs all you previous years combined by shear scale tonnage. They all look great, true Stew worthy builds indeed. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Beautiful work, Stew - I can't imagine building one Emily, but you made two - wow! Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonL Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Nicely done. Love the large scale battleships game 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Hello Stew ! Nice job !! I love the 2 Emilies !! and the giant battleship game Congrats ! See you at SMW 2019 ! Sincerely. CC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Great collection of some lovely finished Japanese subjects there Stu - very well done. Ten is a great effort and something that I like to set myself each year but haven’t quite achieved as yet. Seems like a few of us have hit the modelling wall lately so it’s good news that the new year is only hours away. All the best for 2019. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimrod54 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Great job Stew, and the Giant Battleships game was a knockout idea, I am sure it provided a lot of fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 On 12/26/2018 at 10:37 PM, Cookenbacher said: Ten is quite an output Stew, especially when two have four engines For WWII prop aircraft, 1 engine=1 completion in my book, a little like the Luftwaffe (but less snappily dressed and I trust less evil) scoring system for heavies. Same deal with biplanes; one wing, one completion. So in reality, you've built 14 kits, plus the four steam turbines of the Pennsylvania, so 17 kits. Cracking result! 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Excellent output. Absolutely love that battleship game you've built 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Nice additions to the collection Stew and all up to your normal high standard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 More of a banger of a year than a squib! Two four engined builds, a battleship and immaculate finishes and weathering throughout! More squibs to your elbow sir. Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan B Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 10 builds including 2 giant flying boats, that ain't no damp squib!! All very nicely done (but where is the Pfalz?). Duncan B (who is delighted to have built 10 not including giants) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clive_t Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Great stuff Stew, loving the Japanese aircraft in particular 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I would say you had a cracking year and it’s nice to see you carrying on your Japanese trend. Beautiful models all of them! Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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