What If ideas/goals for the upcoming year, what are YOUR plans?

[silverwindblade]

Finish off the things I've already started, and most of all get our spare room turned into a craft den, so I can work on things much easier.
Got plenty of plans for things to build. Mostly it's a case of getting parts together, or getting the right kits.
I still aim to build as many of the aircraft from my ongoing story as possible, as they help with my inspiration to write.

[McColm]

To finish off all the builds I started, but kitbashing as I go due to the lack of space. Perhaps sell a few to fellow whiffers or go on line.

[McColm]

The plan is back on track for the C-97 and B-29/50 in 1/72 scale AEW projects.
The Airfix Short Stirling which I have fitted with Acadamey B-17 wings and engines wil become another AEW build as I have used parts from the Revell Privateer kit on the nose and rear.
As for the Privateer, a sort of armed cargo/transport RAF Coastal Command version.
The B-17 is the Acadamey SB kit with Airfix Canberra PR9 wings. A jet powered Flying Fortress without guns.Given up on the Mach2 Atlantique, instead an Revell AEW version and a gunship .
Shin Meiwa flying gunboat or if this goes wrong a LLC-130 Herk.(hull and landing gear fixed to a AC-130H).

1/24 Revell Alternomad Caprice x 2 kits. Ute/pickup and the other to have a new front end.
Might try the Jaguar Type E with the Jag Mk2/3 mix.

[CSMO]

Some more Unlimited Class racing planes, both post-WW2 and the Reno machines. There is no limit to how colorful to paint them. My limits are the parts and decals in my scrap-box, not what is in my beady little mind.

A Big Thank You to all who post here. It has been fun!

Adios, Larry.

[McColm]

An idea just crossed my mind, take the 1/72 MH-53 Sea Dragon and add the wings off a Rotodome kit & tail.Add the turboprops from an E-2C Hawkeye and fix the landing gear.
The MH-53 with parts from a Sea King AEW & C at the rear stored so it doesn't interfere with the loading ramp.

[McColm]

Been reading some topics on this site and it seems to me that the whiffers would like to see the wings from the Airfix BAe Nimrod grafted to a C-160 Transall.
I've got the Heller kit so I'll put the wings on the Airfix AC-130H and add a pair of auxiliary jet pods under the new wings.
Still going ahead with adding the BAe Nimrod wings to the Revell Br 1150 Atlantic and a P-3C Orion.
Will build the Airfix Nimrod straightish from the box and add Canadian decals, could build the freighter version as I have a couple of Jeeps that will fit on the deck, the LandRover is a very snug fit.
A couple of demilitarized Avro Shackletons.
Finish off some of my part builds and spares & repairs.
Make a start on InchMcColm with some cut boards that can slot together.

[Rheged]

A couple of demilitarized Avro Shackletons.

This sounds interesting!  Who would operate them?  Ordnance Survey.....NUMA (shades of Clive Cussler)....National Physical Lab.....RNLI  (Is a Shackleton 'self righting')..... Met Office......Civil Aviation Authority....Coastguard...Oxfam (for surveying disaster areas).........the possibilities are endless. I look forward with eager anticipation to your  work!!

[albeback]

My goal is to retire but, realistically that will have to wait until 2015!! . Not really that far away!!
Ideas?
Hmm! Well I have a few;

Fairey Firedrake - Long range interceptor Based on the Heller Mirage IV but using a completely new twin seat cockpit. Probably graft the forward upper/fuselage/cockpit from a scrapped Phantom. 1/48. NM finish & lots of BFMs (Big F****** Missiles!)

Imperial AT-AV (All Terrain Assault Vehicle) using the Takom 1/35 Object 279 heavy tank ( "down" scaled as 1/72!)

Airbus/Antonov A450 - Joint project for an upgraded & stretched AN-124. R R Trent engines. Haven't yet decided on a "V" or "T" tail

BAC Lightning F7 - Single engined derivative of the only true Lightning. Using the KP 1/48 SU-7 fuselage/tail combined with the cockpit/undercarriage/wings from the Airfix Lightning F-6

BAE/Northrop Night Wraith. Advanced stealth bomber replacing the Vulcan & B-52. Using the old Revell Advanced Technology Bomber kit. Wingtips are broken off & missing from the starboard side so, I have in mind upswept wingtips/fins or, maybe even a "C" wing design - largely because I've never seen a what if with a C wing!!

Also got a couple of ideas using Revell's excellent Arado AR-E555. One for the the Vickers Vengeance - The RAF's first jet bomber. I think it may be possible to graft the nose of a an IL-28 on to this kit. 2 x twin engine pods from an old B-47 kit. Also, I'd like to try a prop driven version. Something along the lines of the aircraft seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Funny how it bears quite a resemblance to the AR-E555!!

SAAB/BAC Thunderbolt F1. - Based on SAAB Viggen. Have a pair of the old Airfix kits. By combining the two, I intend to produce a lengthened 2 seat version (NOT a trainer by the way!!)

Allan

[McColm]

The Boeing B-54A was ordered by the USAF on 29th May 1948. 7 B-54As and  23 RB-54As, one B-50 would be modified to the new model B-50C.As the wing was to be increased by 20 ft and the fuselage by 10ft 10 inches for a larger bomb capacity. It was to use the same engines as the YB-36C Pratt & Whitney R-4360-51 VDT Wasp Major engines.
The contract was cancelled on 18th April 1949. To offset the weight a second pair of landing gear added to the outboard engines. The tail still kept the upper guns mixed with barbettes.
I've used 1/72 Academy B-29 kits and the Airfix B-29 on other builds. I doubt that I can match the engines but the rest can be completed.
The XB-44 is the B-29 fitted with the B-50 engines.
The Convair XB-41 Liberator buit as an escort version of the B-24D. This proved unsuccessful as the YB-40 (B-17). I propose to use the frontal guns from the Privateer and side gun blisters.

[Radish]

Well I have so many ideas.....

Steampunking a few aircraft...C-47, F4U-4 again....
Fancy and open-topped touring steampunked C-47 but whether it'll be built...

Various steampunked/goth medieval Batman.
Flying Cyberman......

Lots of silly armour in 1/35th.

[McColm]

Collecting parts for a 1/72 Tornado RF3. Based on the Matchbox kit with a RF-4E nose, extended fuselage plug (C-scale kit for the Airfix F2).

1/72 BC-97 based on the Academy C-97 with the bomb bay from the KC-29P as this is getting a resin AEW radome off the HighPlanes Avenger AEW conversion kit. AEW radome mounted above the cockpit as on the US Navy OP-1/B-17s.
Pan Am decals will be used on the airline version of the B-29.

[Spey_Phantom]

whiff plans for this year (or at least some of them)

Civilian:

-1/144 Tu-144 in Interflug livery
-1/144 Airbus A350 in Sabena livery


Military:

-1/72 CF-105 in Belgian AF markings (underway on the bench)
-various Luft'46 themed aircraft
-1/720 Graf Zeppelin Aircraft Carrier.


WW3 storybuild:
-1/144 F/A-18E Super Hornet (Belgian AF, USMC, JMSDF and RCAF)
-1/144 Airbus CC-145T (A330-MRTT) in RCAF livery
-1/144 F-15S/MTD Super Eagle (USAF livery)
-1/144 Sukhoi SU-47
-1/72 EC665 Tiger-ARH (Belgian Air Force version)
-.......

-1/1200 JMSDF Aircraft Carrier

.....and lots more 

[darthspud]

1/72 Raspberry Ripple - X29, not all that  original, but.....

1/48 Jackal and WMIK - UFOR - Ukrainian Peace Keeper Force 2020

1/72 - Angel Interceptor trainer

[PR19_Kit]

whiff plans for this year (or at least some of them)

Civilian:

-1/144 Airbus A350 in Sabena livery

LOVE that idea!  

Using the big 'Billboard' SABENA all along the fuselage? That'd look awsome.

[lenny100]

a change of direction going to do some airliners etc, with a gerry anderson slant, all 1/144 scale

small regional airliner
large hypersonic airliner