We ARE secret santa'ing this year! (formerly Are we secret santa'ing this year?)

[Amphion]

Well, Santa's been here and I finally got to rip my present open. Here's the proof-picture of what Chernaya Akula sent me:



He also included extra markings from a F/A-18, suggesting an alternative motif. I'm not sure I'll go that way though 

[philp]

Hurmph,
Santa doesn't come for at least another 12 and a half hours and we won't be opening for at least another 7 hours after that.  You probably will be done by then.

[Amphion]

He lives near by you know. It's just a matter of taking care of the locals, before going globe-trotting through the night. 

[ChernayaAkula]

Since it's only a short trip from Scandinavia, Santa drops by in Germany on Christmas Eve. So we exchange presents on the 24th. From Amphion I got a nice Revell 1/72 Hawker Hunter F.6. Really nice, as the Hunter is one of my favourite aircraft. Now, what markings? I'm thinkin'..... Italian? With Firestreaks from a Trumpy Lightning? Or USAF? RAF in SEAC-camo? French in Indochina?

Hope you like that Typhoon!   The decals were just an idea for an "out-of-box whiff". Lookin' forward to seeing what you'll come up with.

[sudzonic]

Well i opened mine and nearly **** myself when i saw a 1/48 scale tornado and thought what  am i going to do with that and ware am i going to put it!!!!!!!!!! but after opening the box i discovered a nice revell SLT 50-3 tank transporter thanks mossie!!

Well this slightly easier to live with and the second i have built. so what to do with it well this is what i am thinking an ISAF based vehicle with an armoured cab and some sort of industrial generator for a civil project on the trailer.





And heres one i made earlier.

[DaFROG]

here's what i got:



about the only thing i can say about the first kit is "oh the humanity" (I may be scarred for life and i'm trying to forget it )

the second kit looks a much better option. I'm not sure even my most fevered imaginings can come up with a back story for it OOB so i think i will try to use as much of it as possible (wings and tailplanes for certain) to make some kind of rocket or pulsejet powered suicide weapon/intercepter in 1/72

[batmancustoms]

so when we get this group build going?  And a big Merry Christmas to all!!!!

[puddingwrestler]

I recieved a rather tattered 'Panzer World Galient' box containing all (as far as I can tell) of an Academy F-4 Phanton, various shocking orange mech parts, some wire, the wrong instructions and various other doo-dads.
Curse you Frog.

[pyro-manic]

My pressie was from thedarkmaster - a Moebius 1:72 "Voyager" kit. Very cool, T-tailed delta thingy I'd never heard of before. Lots of potential here!

[Mossie]

Well i opened mine and nearly **** myself when i saw a 1/48 scale tornado and thought what  am i going to do with that and ware am i going to put it!!!!!!!!!! but after opening the box i discovered a nice revell SLT 50-3 tank transporter thanks mossie!!

Said you'd have to play pass the parcel!!!   It wasn't meant to deliberately fox you, the Tonka box just happened to be the one that best fitted the Elefant kit!  Your welcome mate, I had an idea or two for it which I'll PM you.

Colin (Freightdog) is a very, very nice man!  Thanks Col!!! 



You don't get much more of a whiff-in-a-box!  Kinda jumped the gun in the Airacuda thread.  One idea was to turn it into a conventional attack bomber, then turn one (at least) of the nacelles into a very unconventional fighter.  Then again, part of me thinks that the Airacuda is such a strange beast, it'd be a shame not to do it oob.  Time constraints might turn me against the former too, but we'll see!

[Ed S]

Well, the big day is here.  Here's what I received from my Secret Santa (aka philp).  He sent both the Hasegawa/Minicraft Kfir C2 and the Fujimi Mig 29.  I haven't come up with any good ideas on the Kfir, except to have different markings and camo.  But I do have an idea for the Mig and it will be my project.  I intend to give it a fuselage stretch and add cranked delta wings.  So it will become a Mig-29XL. 



Thanks, Phil

Ed

[puddingwrestler]

My pressie was from thedarkmaster - a Moebius 1:72 "Voyager" kit. Very cool, T-tailed delta thingy I'd never heard of before. Lots of potential here!

The sci fi-ish thingee of retroness and a general air of Irwin Allen about it?

[nev]

Now, what markings? I'm thinkin'..... Italian?

I'm thinkin' Italian is a damn good idea.  So would W.Germany (someone did some awesome Luftwaffe profiles a while back - NMF + splinter )

How about Coastal Command or SEAC?  The repository of all things not wanted.

[JayBee]

Well this is what I got from Sudzonic



1/35 scale - not my comfort zone.

AFV - not quite my comfort zone.

Potential - Spot on.

Do not know quite how I am going to do it, but it will be Irish Air Corps.

JimB

[thedarkmaster]

Well i got a trumpeter Finback II and an Airfix Refueling set, Finback is going to be American ANG no idea on the refueling set but overall .....       santa .