What is your current PROJECTS/CONCEPTS/IDEAS WhishList?

[Nick]

I thought Taiwan wanted the B-45 Tornado in the 50s?
We know China wanted the Harrier in the 80s.

My wishlist is to clear the bench of everything in time for Telford. Must go now, got lots to do!

[proditor]

1) Get married (Sometimes it feels like a what if based on the amount of conjectural planning!!)

More seriously (All 1/700 unless noted):

US Battleship Modernization program (Iowa - Hybrid BB/CV, South Dakota - Assault Ship, and North Carolina classes - Unsure; one of each)
UK Battleship Modernization program (KG5 - Assault Ship, Hood - BB/CV, Rodney - All firepower, all the time)
US Modern FRAM (OHP Update with VLS, Flight Deck Spruance, Big Hanger Spruance, Big Gun Spruance; Last one may be VGAS instead)
Life and Times of HMS Tiger (Three versions, all in various fits from the last 60's, through 2000.)
Japan re-arms (Modernized Shinano - Flight deck, Hyuga - Assaault Ship, Mogami - ASW Helo Carrier, and I-400 - Skyhawk launching sneaky mother)
Three little PiGGs (My three little Hovercraft, I want to finally finish them but 1/700 scale Hellfires are SMALL!) 
Los Tres Muertes (Refit of three older US battleships into South American Assault Ships)
USFS Curtis LeMay the first Airborne Aircraft Carrier (Made from the Old Revell Advanced Tech Bomber and scaled to 1/700)

in 1/144:
Lots.  Seriously, like 20 or so little planes that I can't even remember properly.  I know there were some fun kitbashes inspired by Eddie.

And in 1/72...

AH-56H Cheyenne (Updated with a lot of Apache bits and weaponry)

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

[batmancustoms]

Have to claan my work area first.

Then already stared modding a 1/72 B36

going to try and make some molds as well for a first.


B 36 highly modded to look like from luftwaffe

[chrisonord]

Current project on the slab, is a lightweight, Turbo prop multi role aircraft for the U.S Marines. The aircraft will be of composite construction thus making it lightweight and strong. Able to carry a varied array of current U.S ordnance, and have a gun fitted capable of knocking out armoured vehicles and armoured helicopters and also have an interchangeable pack to fit into either wing root, so as to carry different mission specific guns, cameras or targeting sensors. The aircraft will be a single seater and very compact in size.
The aircraft will be used for close air support, Counter Insurgency and Helicopter escort.
This aircraft will be offered to the newly reformed Iraqi air force, Columbia, Honduras, South Africa and the U.K.
The U.S airforce has ordered seven of these aircraft to evaluate its capability in conflicts in Afghanistan, and on the strength of this evaluation the British Army and Air force will order  15 of the aircraft.
When it is finished, all will be revealed 
Chris

[batmancustoms]

Sounds awesome.

At 4am and cant sleep. But i been doing lots of cutting and sculpting and ideas.  All I have done so far is one Engine lol.

I think this is gonna be one crazy build for me.

[kitbasher]

Still working on the RAF Vixen, to be followed by a tandem 'Supervixen'.

Planning on:
Anglicised Su-9 (leftovers from the Sovietise It! GB)
Something for the Handley Page GB if it gets going
Something for the Pistonator GB if it gets going
A Ford Trimotor whif
A British turboprop COIN idea
360 Sqn's more warlike Canberra T17 replacement
Something Soviet for the SMW2009 display
Probably an RAF Wyvern
An alternative Tornado
What if Gloster had built the Hawker Fury
A Hawker P1027
and finally.......
Something for SMW2010

[cc115]

Attempting, and have been for the last 3-6 years, to complete the following:

Hasegawa 1/72 F-18A as a RCAF CF-18A (dropping the CF-188 designation), squadron TBD;

Hasegawa 1/72 F-18B as a RCAF CF-18B, squadron TBD;

Hasegawa 1/72 F-14A as a RCN CF-14A, VF-870 Sqn;

Hasegawa 1/72 F-16A as a British Columbia ANG CF-16A, 111 Sqn (based on the 111 Sqn of WWII, if I can get the IPMS Canada P-40 decal sheet for the nose totem pole marking); and

Hasegawa 1/72 A-37B as a Yukon Territory ANG CA-37B, squadron TBD.

All this to go with a what if North Korea, China (PRC) and rogue USSR forces attacking Alaska, with operations entering Canadian soil (Yukon).

What year will they be completed? Who knows. Been well over 23+ years since I did any serious modelling. Life, marriage, work, kids, cut into pleasure. Now that I'm no longer married, and have one kid left at home, maybe there is more time.

[dragon]

We are having our local show soon.
Real world:
1/72 P-40E Brazilinan Air Force
1/35 LAV-150 EJV

Whiff:
1/72 Saab J40 Kraken
1/700 Space Cruiser Wisconsin

Sci-Fi:
1/24 Jedi Starfighter

[McColm]

Current projects
Mirage IV 1/48 with TSR-2 reconnaissance pod, solid nose and exhaust pipes from a old F-4N. Retractable in-flight refueling probe from a Tornado ECR, along with jamming pod and decoy with RAFG decals.

Tornado ECR 1/48 in US Navy paint scheme and decals.

Still in the box
Two old Airfix 1/72 Vigilantes spare parts to build one twin fin.
Old Frog Shackleton 1/72
Su-34 1/72 with resin cockpit
Su-47 x2 1/72
poor quality F-111A 1/48
1 x XJS-V12 1/24, concept to model "The Saint".
1 untouched Millennium Falcon still in original wrapper.

Spare parts
1/72 EH-101 ex-presidental helicopter
1/72 MH-53
1/72 Chinook

On order
1/72 Br1150 Atlantic  MK1 with metal etch parts. Concept to add two podded Viking engines or five bladed prop blades
1/72 P-3 Orion Concept to use RAF decals and paint scheme, may consider gun turret in the weapons bay and in-flight refueling probe from a Lightning.

[chrisonord]

Current project on the bench:
AT-28 Enforcer, Heller 1/72nd scale T-28 Trojan, turbo prop conversion, 10 or 12 under wing pylons, ejector seats, FLIR pod, bigger 3 blade prop.
Chris.

[McColm]

Found some more kits under the bed.

1/72 E-2 Hawkeye- could use the radome on the P-3
1/72 Novo Canberra PR7
1/72 Airfix Canberra RB-57
1/72 SR-71 Blackbird

Concept is to create a scenic model railway layout that passes through an airbase, so I can display my 1/72 models off on the flight line/hardstand or hanger area. As the single room I rent out in the Greenford area, isn't big enough. So if anyone has a double room or studio flat for rent at a reasonable price in the London area of the UK, please let me know by sending an email to 63curzonsteet.mjmapp.com

Getting back to the subject matter, my wish list is to have a scaled model of all the current aircraft flown by the UK armed forces from 1986.

[sequoiaranger]

>Concept is to create a scenic model railway layout that passes through an airbase, so I can display my 1/72 models off on the flight line/hardstand or hanger area.<

At least in America, the only railroad scale that comes close is "S" gauge (1/64th) from "American Flyer", a now very rare type. "O" gauge railroads and 1/48 are perfectly compatible with each other. "HO" scale, at least in America, is 1/87 scale, and in a pinch some 1/96 or 1/100 aircraft can do.

I have noticed that Airfix makes military buildings and figures for an "HO/OO" scale listed it at 1/76. I am unfamiliar with train scales in the UK (or anywhere outside of the USA, for that matter). Is "OO" scale a viable train scale in your neck of the woods?---is that what you are proposing? If so----      


P.S. I suppose you'll have a RR crossing going across the runway where planes will have to wait to take off, yes?

[Mossie]

OO Gauge is the most popular in the UK for model railways, it emerged when they were marketed to the masses with limited space.  It managed to gain a foothold over HO here, although that scale is most popular in most other countries.  Airfix & several other companies in the UK produced models in this scale to take advantage of the scenery & such available & a few garage manufacturers carry it on.  They're close enough to 1/72 for a diorama, although you sometimes here the JMN's moan about it.

So  !!!

[McColm]

 UK OO gauge uses the 4mm to one foot or 1:76.2. The Europeans prefer the 1:87 HO. Although the purists use something known as EM gauge based on the 4mm scale but I don't know what the ratio is.
If anyone has any info a railway track passing through an airbase or has built a layout on this theme, I'd like to see some photos.

[Mossie]

I know of two locally that have train lines that pass very nearby.  RAF Finningley was in use until 1996, RAF Leconfield passed over to the Army in 1976, although 202 Sqn 'E' Flight has a pair of Sea Kings there.  The train lines don't actually pass through the stations.