What do you plan to build in near future?

[Rheged]

Regrettably,  the only building I'll be doing for the next couple of weeks is a new garden shed/summerhouse at 12 inches to the foot scale.   Once that's done there's an  airlaunched  Bloodhound  missile at 1/72 scale to work on.

[Old Wombat]

While not exactly "near future" ( possibly not even this century at the rate I'm going ) I intend building;

1) a Hobby Boss A-7D as a Royal Australian Marines aircraft &;
2) converting a Hobby Boss A-7K into an EA-7K as EW support for it.

I have a vague image of subdued browns & greens in a 3-or-4 tone wrap-around scheme.



Guy

[Captain Canada]

Sword 2 hole Harriers ! And lots and lots of Airfix A-4s and F.22s !

[McColm]

In my 1/24-1/25 car collection,
I intend to build a 1966 Impala 3 door van
A 'General Lee' convertible
a  1994 Ford Mustang hatchback
a  1984 Ford Taurus estate
1984 Ford 2 door Taurus saloon

[The Wooksta!]

I'll be spraying and decalling Spitfires and other assorted Plan related aircraft for the next six weeks.  After that, I'll push the Spitfires to one side for the rest of the year.

Goals?
Finishing the Merlin 85 engined Avro Lancastrian.

Assembling a few Sea Meteor F/FR.IIIs (bits are already cast).  There's also a pair of PR Meteors I want to do in PDU colours.

Finishing some of the myriad Hawkers Tempests that were abandoned in 2010, most of which had two of their three colours on.
Getting the u/c and torpedo on the Banff Strike Wing Mosquito FB.VI

Finishing that Magna Buckmaster that's been on and off since 2007
Ditto the Magna Brigand TF.1 that's been on and mostly off since 2000.
 
It's the u/c assembly that's doing it.  All of the kits of these aircraft have really awful u/c assemblies.  The wheels in the Magna kits are an absolute joke - thick buttons would quite honestly be an improvement, even Polo mints would be better as although they wouldn't be any more accurate, at least I could eat them!  I moulded and cast a pair of wheels from the Valom kit.

[Hobbes]

After seeing a Forward Control Land Rover at the REME museum, I've been thinking about building an updated version based on the modern Defender.



A quick browse at Hannants shows that most Land Rover kits are of the older versions though.

[McColm]

After seeing a Forward Control Land Rover at the REME museum, I've been thinking about building an updated version based on the modern Defender.



A quick browse at Hannants shows that most Land Rover kits are of the older versions though.

That's my first 1/72 build, a NATO green finish using a JB kit. You might try a larger scale, or look at the Airfix range of vehicles.

[Hobbes]

Having looked at the LR kit options more closely, this is the closest to a civilian Defender that I've found:



The other kits either have no doors or are armoured (the new Airfix 1/48 kit).

Another idea just crossed my mind: building a Defender in the vein of the Mercedes G-class AMG. You know, all tarted up with wide alloys, sidepipes, a big V8 etc. That'd be more difficult since I'd need a 1/24 kit so I could add aftermarket alloys and tires.

[Mossie]

The only injection kit of a Land Rover in 1/24 that I can think of is the Italeri kit.  It's a Series 3 though rather than a Defender, available in both civvy and military guises.  There's an older Range Rover too.

Otherwise, there are diecasts.  Cararama do a Defender 110, I think someone does a 90 too.  Might be an option if you just want to add a new paint scheme and aftermarket bits.

I like the idea of a modern FC, I'd like to see what you come up with.  I've had thoughts on the FC in the past, it's quite a whiffy Land Rover variant as not much was done with it.

[Old Wombat]

While not exactly "near future" ( possibly not even this century at the rate I'm going ) I intend building;

1) a Hobby Boss A-7D as a Royal Australian Marines aircraft &;
2) converting a Hobby Boss A-7K into an EA-7K as EW support for it.

I have a vague image of subdued browns & greens in a 3-or-4 tone wrap-around scheme.

Slightly expanding on this .... well, intention, rather than idea....

As part of my evolving Royal Australian Marines time-line;

A-7D fitted out for a bit of weaseling with an EA-7K for electronic interdiction support.

I have the Hobby Boss A-7D in the stash & the Hobby Boss A-7K is in transit.

I'm looking at 2 x AIM-9's for each plane (late model... hints?).

The A-7D is going to have a combo of HE bombs (Mk 82's?) & (AGM-88) HARM's or AARGM's - I'm not sure what's in the kit & if I'll be able to just use them or if I need to buy extras.
The EA-7K is the twin-seater A-7K which I will modify to have an EA-6 style tail faring, lots of podded ECM &, possibly, an ALARM or two - just for kicks!

My vision for their camouflage is a little variable, right now, but seems to be loitering around muted browns & greens in a 3- or 4-tone wrap-around scheme, or a similar scheme involving a muted pale blue.

If anyone has some reasonably priced (free?) suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.



Guy

[scooter]

1/24 Hawker Hurricane MK I...in NJ State Police markings. A nice simple break from fighting with turbo-Widow

[McColm]

I thought of turning the Airfix F-27 into something similar to the SAAB 340 AEW & C. I've prized off the JSTARS pod from the super-stretched P-3 and I was thinking of using the layout of the Douglas DC-4E, adding the Connie triple tail instead of the single vertical fin.

Another idea for my 1/72 SB-17 Flying Fortress, is to move the main wings to the rear and move the tail elevators forward above the bomb bay. Fit a radome from a Shackleton AEW conversion kit onto the underside of the bomb bay (similar to the PB-1/PB-1W), with wing tip tanks and two drop tanks. If the Griffons fit I'll use them as well.

[Spey_Phantom]

been looking at the Revell 1/144 C-17A on the attic recently, and the thought came to mind.

an Israeli C-17I "Shor" (Ox) in the same desert camoflage as the IASF C-130's
maybe accompanied by an F-22I "Refa'im" (Ghost)

[Rheged]

1/24 Hawker Hurricane MK I...in NJ State Police markings. A nice simple break from fighting with turbo-Widow

Idiots  in  supercars  may outrun the  state police  chopper, NOBODY   outruns the Hurricane...........and with  the  12 gun wing  everyone tends to stop  when they are  told!

[McColm]

I've got an Airfix Vulcan in my stash and thought of using the wings from one of my C-135 kits, along with the canopy from a F-15, elevators and twin tail fins. Spare parts from the Airfix Nimrod kit; windows, MAD boom and Harpoon weapons on underwing pylons. Using the Airfix Valiant recce kit in the weapons bay recess.
Thus becoming the Avro Varangian ERB-51.

I've found an Hornby oo/ho HST British Rail Swift logo train set the drive car and dummy power cars are in good nick, but there is a scratch on one of the windows of the coaches. I've got spare windows for the Blue Pullman Triang and will convert this carriage into a Pullman Grey kitchen car to make a Grey set.

McColm Castle based on the Airfix Ho/oo Sherwood Castle kit. 8 x 7 x 4 inches can be seen in Airfix Model World, Dec 2012 issue page 29. It's a snap-kit, I've used a base coat of magnolia mat paint stirred and shaken what looks to me like brown umber paint both from the Humbrol range. I used a soft bush and dabbed the access paint off with some kitchen towel giving a stone finish (mottle look). I might use this on my Ju-52 and He-111 planned builds. As to the Airfix Coastal Defence part kits from eBay, one is a British battery whilst the other looks like something from the  German Atlantic Wall, military fortification program of World War II. I picked up a copy from the Osprey series on Fortress. I'll have to revise my InchMcColm project and base this on one of the Channel Islands.