Finish my current builds.
More kitbashing.
The Isle of McColm idea becomes a reality- well part of my planned 00 gauge model rail layout.

I'm currently doing a tour on Hunters, but I'm considering an Eagle engined Battle. There's a few other things that are stalled, and there's a Skua that I have some ideas for.

why the same as i plan every year ( pinky)
build stuff, have fun doing it.       and spin off any ideas that i have here, so that any one else can benefit (?) from them

1/144 Boeing 747 with a pair of B-52 engines

i dont really have build plans for next year, except those ive planned for this one and didnt make due to lack of free time.

i do have a series of WHIF WW2 projects in the pipeline, both in 1/72 and 1/144 scales.
in 1/72, i have a 1940 Belgian Grumman G-36A, Bell P-400 and Brewster Buffalo (the latter being semi-WHIF).
in 1/144 i have almost an entire air force planned but its likely i wont find the time to finish them.

Quote from: McColm on December 25, 2022, 01:33:46 PM1/144 Boeing 747 with a pair of B-52 engines

ah, the Skyfleet S570 from 007: Casino Royale? 

Currently taking a small break from my large scale HMS Habakkuk model project to get back to work on finishing a Hasegawa 1/72 scale X-29 into a Japanese forward swept wing fighter. Hope to be done sometime in the beginning of January.
Still need to commission someone to build me a new wood base for a 1/72 scale Iowa battleship turret model I have. The turret is all fully built and painted, but I need a new wood base. This is for a special display/tribute to honor the 47 sailors killed in the April 1989 blast.
Still have 5 different Moebius Models 1/4105 scale Battlestar Galactica models to finish next year. All of them are about 75-80% parts assembly, but I'm having painting issues for all of them. Hope to have all of them finished next year.
Possibility (although slightly) of working on a TAKOM 1/35 scale Krupp Raumer S mine clearing vehicle and turn it into a German WWII Antarctic expeditionary snow cruiser vehicle.
So, those are my projects for 2023.

Just trying to finish stuff before starting new projects. I wish painting wasn't such PITA. Then maybe the medium bomber project.

Would just like to get building again, my accident seems to have knocked all the motivation out of me. Still I'm determined to get going again post New Year. Hopefully finish the Hornet (the attractive DH one not the F.18  ), but I have a fair bit of Board admin to do in Jan as well.

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on December 25, 2022, 01:38:33 PM

Quote from: McColm on December 25, 2022, 01:33:46 PM1/144 Boeing 747 with a pair of B-52 engines

ah, the Skyfleet S570 from 007: Casino Royale? 

Or something very similar. A twin-engined Boeing 747 or a twin engined Airbus 380. Today's whiff and tomorrow's reality. Rolls-Royce and P & W are both developing engines that could see both planes take to the skies or in a modified format. It could be a basis for a GB suggestion.

A land-based version of the Shorts Sunderland.
The step hull would be cut to allow for a pair of front loading doors and a flat floor, maybe C-130 style landing gear and gun turrets removed. Possible engine changes. I have tried putting Rolls-Royce Merlins on Shorts Stirling which seems to work.
The Shorts Hythe and Sandringham are two that I would like to build.

Welsh Models provide the P-8 and E-7 in both 1/144 & 1/72 scales their kits are way over my budget at the moment but I did see that they do the Avro Lincoln RAAF Mk.30 in 1/144 scale. I just need to find someone who owns a 3D printer so I can scale it up to 1/72 then make a few resin moulds of the fuselage.

A crazy idea using a 1/72 vacuum Avro Shackleton fuselage and either the Frog/Airfix/Revell  Avro Shackleton MR.2 or MR.3 depending if I can get hold of a cheap or scrap kit donor.
A high-winged  version,  I have tried this before with a plastic model and it didn't go to plan as the fuselage has a rounded top.I  should have used filler to plug the gap between the wing and the top,then shaped it.
At least with vacuum you can put a piece of plastic behind the fuselage to make it a bit rigid or shape it so it's a better fit.  It could end up looking like a transport version of the B-24.

Another idea out of the blue,  I wonder if anyone  apart from myself has thought about putting turboprop engines on the 1/72 Mach2  Martin SeaMaster?

I think you would have to modify the wing into a gull wing shape to get the props away from the water. Interesting idea.
Maybe a slightly swept wing in a gull shape. Hmmmmm....