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

[Gondor]

Looks like someone is about to pinch the tyres as its on blocks 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Mockups like that were often made of clay, or wooden bucks with clay-addons and the wheels were never bolted in place, they just leant them up against the dummy 'axles', which were just lengths of timber in reality. That was so the designers could try different wheel designs and sizes easily, and they'd often have 5-6 sets of wheels just lying around in the styling studio.

The blocks were to hold up the considerable weight of the mockup, often more than the real car would weigh.

[McColm]

It's a shame it never went to production, could have been an alternative to the XJS V12.

[NARSES2]

Looks like someone is about to pinch the tyres as its on blocks 

Gondor

Beat me to it 

I don't like that at all, the E-Type was so iconic how dare they mess around with it 

[PR19_Kit]

It's a shame it never went to production, could have been an alternative to the XJS V12.

The XJS was a whole generation later than the XJ4 'E Type Saloon'. The XJ4/6 was designed as a replacement for the MK II Jags, like Insp. Morse drove, but ended up large enough to replace them and the monster Mk. X as well, and first came on the market in '68. Whereas the XJS arrived in '76, and was itself based on the XJ6 platform.

Sometimes Jaguar's 'product planning' almost defeated itself..... 

[McColm]

Air cushion carrier or launch platform based on the Airfix 1/144 Hovercraft for the Space Shuttle.
SR-71 Blackbird- space ship. Star Wars springs to mind, I can experiment with chrome.
Lockheed Starliner- using the P-3C Orion wings and engines. If the clear plastic flying boom mould from the Academy KC-97 fits then a KC-121 with tail parts from the Orion kit.
Twin-boom twin fin Avro Shackleton, Napier powered. Arctic patrol.

[Captain Canada]

I don't like that at all, the E-Type was so iconic how dare they mess around with it 

That's true as well Chris, I hadn't really thought about that part of the equation. I'm going to show my buddy the pics and see what his reaction is.

[Rheged]

What I'd LIKE to do is a 1/2000 scale Titanic as the armed merchant cruiser Oceanic, in dazzle paint (Thank you Wooksta for pointing me in that direction)n;   a Hawk FGA5 ( R Aux A F   fighter/ground attack);  finish the BAe Tern (a sort of nautical Strikemaster) that I began before I moved house and the Buccaneer S4c that I've had in my imagination for ages (a Bucc for the new HMS Queen Elizabeth).  Then there's that Wellesley kit.......and a Vickers light tank.....and the Oseborg Viking ship...........and some Dapol steam locomotives.......... and a Walrus that's crying out to be painted in Orkney Ferries colours........

What I probably WILL end up doing is rather a lot of 12 inch to the foot scale painting, gardening and making a start on all sorts of other things.  I will, however, attempt to do what I'm least bad at and try to  produce a wide selection of possible back-stories for colleagues here to adopt and transmute into styrene reality.

The other goal for 2016 is, of course, to be around to wish you all a happy Christmas** at the end of the year

** other festivals involving the giving and receipt of  seasonal best wishes and gifts are available.

[McColm]

With the two AMT 1/25 Ford Capris on there way the Matchbox PK-4106 could go down the Shelby route with a V8 sticking out of the hood/bonnet.
Keeping the other as a street car or Police car or Emergency Response Vehicle.
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Then there's aircraft engines fitted to cars, the 1955 RR Silver Cloud. Got the kit and a spare body with boot/trunk and bonnet/hood which open. The body is a better mould than the kit, no radiator or glazed parts/lights or chassis. Possible hot rod or dormobile.

[scooter]

What I probably WILL end up doing is rather a lot of 12 inch to the foot scale painting, gardening and making a start on all sorts of other things.

Yup, same here.  As long as our landlord doesn't get a wild hair and decide to not renew us.

[eatthis]

i m planning a modern tornado gr4 tsr2 gr7 twinbuild (possibly with a typhoon aswell)

[Gondor]

Simply to reduce my in-progress pile of builds by finishing a few of them.

Gondor

[Thorvic]

In my case its do a few more OOB build (with a Project Cancelled or What-If tilt of course  , although some will be real too) rather than get bogged down with a big project.

Looking forward to the new Shackleton and Sea king Commando from Airfix, hoping we'll see a few more Cold War 72nd scale releases next year too.
Got some early RN Phantoms to do using the new RAM models decals and I might give the HL a blast as my original formed the basis of Martins masters.

Still want to do the Naval VG lightning using the sword kit as that was on hold to see if Freightdog brought their conversion out.

[Captain Canada]

Sounds like a great plan Geoff !

I've been thinking about firing up the airbrush again. A good way to do that would be with the A400M and the simple scheme I have planned for it.

[McColm]

I've always felt that the Russians should have been a customer of the Rotodyne.
So using the Airfix 1/72 Kamov KA-25 A/B/C Hormone for parts , an ASW Rotodyne could be be built as there are two nose radomes, hoists and flotation gear to build all three versions and use the left over parts for a SAR helicopter.

The YAK/JAK-24SP is also a likely candidate as I have the VEB model in my stash with parts from the 1/72 MH-47 Special Ops. The Rotodyne has been stretched and the rotor head stacks fitted. Parts used from the MH-53 Sea Dragon.