About my collection of model kits

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Updated April 4, 2023

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Tamiya Avro Lancaster Mk I and III

About my collection of 85 unbuilt model kits?

I have changed how I had viewed my stash of model kits since it had grown a lot since 2019. I now consider my stash as my collection of unbuilt model airplanes.

In 2019 I was hoping I would be avoiding going on another spending spree and planning ahead on my next builds by setting up some priorities…

Well I was being wrong, and in 2020, I was keeping adding more and more model kits to my collection.

This is the updated list of the model kits I have.

Helicopters (3)

Monogram (3)

AH-1S (almost completed many years ago)

Bell Huey Hog (bought in the 1980s)

AH-64 Apache (bought in the 1980s and started in mid 90s)

Planes (82)

Academy (2)

P-51A (bought on June 30, 2022)

TBF-1c (bought on October 1/, 2022)

ICM (1)

Ju 88 C-6 (bought on January 21, 2020)

Airfix (2)

Boulton-Paul Defiant (bought in 2018)

Battle of Britain and Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 (bought in 2018)

Eduard (11)

P-39 Weekend edition (bought in December 2019)

Spitfire Mk IX (bought in December 2019)

F6F Hellcat Weekend edition (bought in January  2020)

Spitfire Mk XVI Weekend edition (bought in January 2020)

Me 110 E (bought in January 2020)

Me 109 G-4 (bought in February 2020)

FW 190 D (bought in March 2020)

Me 109 E-3 (bought in March 2020)

FW 190 A-8 (bought in March 2020)

Hawker Tempest Mk V (bought in June 2020)

P-51 D (bought in June 2020)

Tamiya (28)

Bristol Beaufighter Mk VI (bought after 2000)

Hawker Harrier (bought in the 1990s)

de Havilland Mosquito (bought in 2018)

P-47 M (bought in 2019)

F4U-1/2 Corsair (bought in August 2019)

F4U-1D Corsair with tug (bought in 2 is019)

Me 262 (bought in December 2019)

FW 190D (bought in January 2020)

IL-2 Sturmovik (bought in February 2020)

Bristol Beaufighter TFX (bought in June 2020)

P-47 D Razorback (bought in September 2020)

P-51B (bought in September 2020)

P-38F/J (bought in 2021)

Mitsubishi G4M Betty (bought in 2021)

Fairey Swordfish (bought in 2021)

De Havilland Mosquito Mk IV (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – old version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – new version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb  (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb – tropical version (bought in 2021)

Mustang Mk III (bought in 2021)

Nakajima Ki 84  (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 219 (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 162 (bought in 2021)

P-38J

Me 109 E-3 (bought on October 15, 2022)

Brewster Buffalo B399 (bought on October 15, 2022)

Avro Lancaster Mk I and III

Revell (2)

B-29 (vintage 1950s) (a gift from the nephew of a Mosquito pilot)

B1-B (bought in 1990s)

Monogram (27)

Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk (a gift from a WWII veteran)

de Havilland Mosquito (bought in the 1990s)

de Havilland Mosquito (bought in the 1990s)

Hawker Harrier (bought in the 1980s)

Hawker Typhoon (bought in the 1990s)

SBD Dauntless (bought in the 1980s)

Vought Kingfisher (bought in the 1990s)

A-26 B Invader (bought after 2000)

B-24 J (bought in the 1980s)

B-25 J (bought in the 1990s)

B-58 (bought in the 1980s)

P-38 (bought in 1980s)

P-61 Black Widow (bought in August 2019)

F4 Phantom (bought in the 1980s)

F-8 Crusader (bought in the 1980s)

F-80 (bought in the 1980s)

F-84 (bought in the 1980s)

A6 Douglas Skyraider (bought in the 1980s)

A7 Corsair (bought in the 1980s)

F-100 (bought in the 1980s)

F-101 (bought in the 1980s)

F-102 (bought in the 1980s)

F-105 (bought in the 1980s)

F-106 (bought in the 1980s)

F-117 (bought in the 1980s)

Mig-29 (bought in the 1980s)

Douglas TBD Devastator (bought in the 1980s)

Hasegawa (4)

P-40 E (bought in 2018)

SBD Douglas Dauntless (bought in 2018)

Zero Type 52 (Minicraft/Hasegawa) (bought in 1990s)

Nakajima B5N Kate (bought in 2021)

Trumpeter (2)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/72 scale (bought in February 2020)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/48 scale (bought in April 2022)

Ships (3)

Trumpeter (3)

German Z-30 Zerstorer 1/350 scale (bought in 2019)

USS Lexington 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

USS Saratoga CV-3 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

So with more than 80 model kits waiting to be built, I realise now that it’s not that important if I build them all…

Just having them is and having fun building them.

2023 Year-end review

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Day 676 since you know what… Sunday December 31, 2023 First let’s start with my 2023 resolutions I wrote back on My Forgotten Hobby VI. First resolution: I won’t be buying another model kit in 2023, Pro Modeler Curtiss Helldiver SB2C-4 being the last one bought in 2022. Not kept since I have added three […]

2023 Year-end review

Airfix Albion fuel bowser – Final Lap? — My Forgotten Hobby V

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Lest we forget Day 63 Not quite there yet. I have completed the assembly Tuesday morning by cementing the booms. Again instructions had to be followed carefully and some parts didn’t seem to fit. I should have checked Plane Dave’s rendition of his Albion fuel bowser. https://planedave.net/2020/04/30/albion-am463/amp/ I am sure I would have understood the […]

Airfix Albion fuel bowser – Final Lap? — My Forgotten Hobby V

Progress report – … And a little more

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Lest we forget
Day 59

This is how I left my workstation Thursday night.

That’s the little more I was talking about on Friday morning.

I experimented with homemade sky for the PBY Catalina and the shade didn’t come how I thought it would.

Win some, lose some…

The mechanics are again working feverishly on the fuel bowser.

They had completed and painted the Bedford MWD light truck. They are working on the right door making sure everything is plumb.

 

With these last images I have now reached my 3 gigabytes upload limit on My Forgotten Hobby IV…

You know what’s coming next don’t you?

Progress report – Bedford MWD light truck… And a little more

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Lest we forget
Day 58

Just another day on My Forgotten Hobby IV…  More progress was made on the trucks yesterday.

The mechanics are now working hard on the fuel bowser.

They have just completed and painted the Bedford MWD light truck.

Nice job!

They only have to do some painting on the underside of the Bedford.

They have used the wet palette technique from the YouTube video.

Since the acrylic paint was still wet after a few hours, they decided to use it for weathering the trucks and the aircraft carriers.

They also used this technique on the Hawker Tempest since they still had different shades of grey on the wet palette.

The Eduard Hawker Tempest Series 2 has been sitting in its box since last year.

This is how it turned out…

While at it they mixed some homemade dark green and added the upper camouflage.

But there is more…

I will tell you another day.

Painting figurines

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Lest we forget
Day 57

I have adapted this technique to paint my figurines.

 

 

I have decided to move on detailing them and concentrating instead on the Albion and the Bedford.

Work in progress

I won’t use my airbrush to finish the trucks. I will use it to finish my Hawker Tempest Series 2.

I want to complete the D-Day diorama as soon as possible.

The aircraft carriers have left my naval yard although three are still missing their planes.

 

 

 

First the planes need to receive an airbrush treatment with black primer.