Show me your models!!

[Damian2]

Hey All!

I'd like to see which completed models you guys like the most from your long hard work!

I'll start off, first up is my fav prop plane, the Almighty Skyraider! This was the first time that I tried the whole exhaust staining...

[Damian2]

My Fav jet, the Skyhawk strange that my two most fav planes are the work of the same designer, the ledgendary Ed Heineman (sp?)

[Damian2]

My second fav prop the Grumman Bearcat...this one is definitley gonna get the what-if treatment!  

[Damian2]

And fianlly the ugly little Dragonfly...I can see myself smooshing this kit up with a Mustang to make a Horsefly or something...

[Eddie M.]

Those are very good. I really like your weathering. B) We have a couple in common. Here are a few of my favs from the straight laced side of town.
  Eddie

[Damian2]

Your Flying DumpTruck is in the colours of my favorite attack squadron VA-25!!

-Damian

[John Howling Mouse]

They are all eye-catching, high-quality pieces of work!

You've posed a very good question about our favorite models.
Honestly, my favorites are usually those that were made by someone else (that way, I don't know what a pain in the butt the building might have been!).

When it comes to my own models, I wouldn't even know where to start.
The ones that others tell me "look" the best were often the least enjoyable builds.

The ones where I enjoyed myself the most usually didn't turn out to be the greatest looking models.   Or the ones that took the most effort sometimes seem so ordinary in the end.

Hmmm...believe I see a pattern forming.

[Damian2]

They are all eye-catching, high-quality pieces of work!

You've posed a very good question about our favorite models.
Honestly, my favorites are usually those that were made by someone else (that way, I don't know what a pain in the butt the building might have been!).

When it comes to my own models, I wouldn't even know where to start.
The ones that others tell me "look" the best were often the least enjoyable builds.

The ones where I enjoyed myself the most usually didn't turn out to be the greatest looking models.   Or the ones that took the most effort sometimes seem so ordinary in the end.

Hmmm...believe I see a pattern forming.

Isn't that so true! I first tried to build the Skyraider when I started building models in 2003, I soon put it away for fear of botching the whole thing up, I didn't pick her up again till September 2004. Btw I like that T-tailed Impala (OK Mb326?)


-Damian

[John Howling Mouse]

This What If started out as the Testors/Hawk Banshee and I had to scribe every panel line and pushed in over a thousand "rivets."  I built completely new wheel wells, made landing gear doors complete with recesses, etc.  There's an aftermarket cockpit in there too (my first!), filled in the hollow wing-chords with a false intake set-up and engine cans.  But, in the end, it seems like a very ordinary, run-of-the-mill kit when you walk past it in its display case.

[Damian2]

Impressive work there JHM! I'm also following your Mustang build with interest!!

-Damian

[matrixone]

Damian2 and John,

Thanks for posting pics of your favorite models.

Here is my favorite model so far, the ProModeler Fw 190D.



What I am building now just might be my new favorite model but there is still time for me to screw something up on it yet! Good or bad pics to be posted in a week or two.

Matrixone

[cthulhu77]

Some of my favourites from the last year :

 Pt 815 in Scottish colours:


 A Canadian Stranraer:


 An X wing with landing gear and wells, etc...:


 And a Deinonychus nasutus made from a Lindberg "raptor"

[Leigh]

Matrix once again a magnificent presentation. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a 1/48 plane with a 1/72 control tower?
Practically everyone here builds awesome models but Mr Matrix is definately the king of picture taking. You new guys should do a search for his photo's they'll blow you away.
As for my fave model, well I've not built that many since I got back into modelling about a year ago and they are nearly all on my home page.
To build, probably the Academy Mig 21 just went perfectly.
Most satisfying, a piece of crap kit that came out looking just "right". To be entered for Latin o rama, you'll all see it when it's finished probably next week.

[John Howling Mouse]

isn't that a 1/48 plane with a 1/72 control tower?

Great idea for forced perspective, huh?

A pic of a 1:48th flying subject in the foreground with its wingman at 1:72 in the distance gets the same fantastic result.

Cthulhu: How did you do such a great job on that rigging?
Is that a customized canard I see on the X-wing?
And have you ever built the CC X-wing resin kit?

[The Rat]

Show me your models!!, I'm just curious!!

Yeah, sure. I'll show you mine if you show me your's eh?   Good looking stuff there Damian!

Okay, I don't yet have a large body of work, but here's some stuff. First, the Otaki 1/144th Galaxy beside the old old old Testors, nee Hawk, 1/72nd Supermarine Swift:



You can read the post here.

Next up is the first Whiffer I posted here, the Wolverine:



More pictures and the back story can be found here.