What do you plan to build in near future?

[Captain Canada]

Wow. We need a scribbling of how that is going to look ! sounds amazing !

[Captain Canada]

I'm really looking hard at the old Spruce Goose kit. Says 1/200 scale. Anybody ever done the math ? I'd like to open it all up and put it asea.

[kitnut617]

I'm really looking hard at the old Spruce Goose kit. Says 1/200 scale. Anybody ever done the math ? I'd like to open it all up and put it asea.

Goes together quite nicely Todd and pretty much bang on for 1/200 scale



Got another one in the stash, comes with some "fantasy" decals for a civil airliner (Hawaiian IIRC)

This one

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/111551680305-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

[scooter]

Finishing up a paver fire ring in the yard and a 13x50 pad for the bus...

[Rick Lowe]

Got 2 old Airfix Lancaster Kits.
Planning on cutting one in front of the bomb bay and the second behind it and joining them together.
Then the plan is to raise the upper decking behind the cockpit (similar to Shackleton) and widening the fuselage by 10 mls.
Cut the centre section from one wing and attach it to the other wing and then mount this wing to rear part of the fuselage in a high mounted position.
What's left of the other wing will go into the original attachment point on the on forward fuselage giving a tandem wing layout with 8 engines ( 2 in front and 6 at back).
Its going to be a bit of a monster so hope I can pull it off.

Welcome aboard!

That sounds like a brilliant build - big beast in 1/72, but that's life...

Are you going to put the fins at the ends of the wings, or partway down?

Cheers

[lenny100]

just got a old book, Avro Vulcan: Britain's Famous Delta Wing V-Bomber by the Buttler's and now i want to build the two original designs the better known delta with wing tip tails and a central engine block for all 4 engines and on the cover of tony's other book British secret projects jet bombers since 1949, and the older true flying wing with six engines in the central fuselage and has a vectored thrust tail end

[Captain Canada]

Nice one Robert she looks awesome all together !

[Old Wombat]

I'm delving into unfamiliar territory ... cars ... I don't do cars!

I like cars, I just don't build them.

However, I offerred to build something for my daughters some time ago & they chose cars.

The elder chose a Revell 1/24th (modern) Mini Cooper; the younger a Revell 1/24th '66 Shelby GT350H

My wife has also bought me 2 cars - an AMT/Ertl 1/25th 1960 Corvette ($4.00) & a Tamiya 1/24th Toyota Sard Supra GT ($7.00) from one of the local Op Shops.

The Corvette is problematic, having absolutely NO positive location points, soft-ish detail & thick plastic with a quite rough inner surface - I may never build it.

I've just started on the Supra, to get practice at building cars & I've already figured it ain't nothin' like building a tank or plane.



Luckily none of the paint schemes are going to be stock, so whiffing will be done!

[zenrat]

The AMT '60 'vette with loads of optional parts and a driver figure?
That's a "classic".  Building that could be like going back in time.

Good luck.  Not that you'll need it.  You'll do fine.

[Dizzyfugu]

I'm delving into unfamiliar territory ... cars ... I don't do cars!

I like cars, I just don't build them. [...]to get practice at building cars & I've already figured it ain't nothin' like building a tank or plane.

Second that. While I like this topic I ever built 3 or 4 car kits in my whole career. When you are used to military vehicles it's a real challenge! 

[zenrat]

Au contraire.  It's the military vehicles that are tricky.  I've stalled on the Meng D9 dozer because I can't build it like a car.  I've got to get my head around a different way of doing things which involves much more masking and wedging foam into window openings.
Cars on the other hand are easy.  You paint the body, you build & paint the interior tub, you build, paint & detail the engine and you build & paint the chassis.  You then put it all together. 

[Old Wombat]

The AMT '60 'vette with loads of optional parts and a driver figure?
That's a "classic".  Building that could be like going back in time.

Good luck.  Not that you'll need it.  You'll do fine.

Um, maybe?

There are a lot of "unused" parts, for which the instructions show no optional versions, & there's no driver figure.

Thanks, I'll need it!

[Modelnut]

Got 2 old Airfix Lancaster Kits.
Planning on cutting one in front of the bomb bay and the second behind it and joining them together.
Then the plan is to raise the upper decking behind the cockpit (similar to Shackleton) and widening the fuselage by 10 mls.
Cut the centre section from one wing and attach it to the other wing and then mount this wing to rear part of the fuselage in a high mounted position.
What's left of the other wing will go into the original attachment point on the on forward fuselage giving a tandem wing layout with 8 engines ( 2 in front and 6 at back).
Its going to be a bit of a monster so hope I can pull it off.

Welcome aboard!

That sounds like a brilliant build - big beast in 1/72, but that's life...

Are you going to put the fins at the ends of the wings, or partway down?

Cheers

Making Oversized copies of the Lancaster Rudders and will probably mount them partway down outboard of the control surfaces.

[kitnut617]

Making Oversized copies of the Lancaster Rudders and will probably mount them partway down outboard of the control surfaces.

I did that when I built my Nottingham

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,16956.75.html

[Spey_Phantom]

iverything im planning to build has been put on hold.
the only project im curretnly working on is the design of Mancave 3.0