Okay, there was no Mayan apocalypse and I still have 10 days left in the year, and of those 10 days I estimate I have 4-5 solid modeling days, so I may be editing this post to update what I got completed. At any rate, my build plan for 2012 got totally side tracked by the Museum requirements, but I did have a good year!
For the Museum:
- Trumpeter Liberty Ship
- Tamiya Type VII U-Boat
- Hobby Boss Type IX U-Boat
- Tamiya HMS Prince of Wales
- Matchbox Halifax GR II
Theme builds:
- Academy General Motors FM-1 Wildcat & Wildcat V (Salute to the General)
- Academy & Airfix Tomahawk IIb (Shark Tank)
- Academy P-40B (Between the Wars)
- Airfix P-40B (Anniversary: Pearl Harbor)
- Hawk Javelin (rebuild your first model)
- Matchbox Mosquito PR XVI (Trench Warfare)
- PM Ta-183 (Whiff)
- CMR P-51H in Air National Guard markings (Minutemen)
I started a number of kits, only to be foiled by some sort of roadblock (usually work):
- Revell P-26A — Decals were complex and slow going
- Matchbox Halifax GR II (my first attempt) — too many complex corrections
- Dragon Arizona — Overwhelming
- MPM FM-2 Wildcat VI — Ran out of time
- Hobby Boss P-47D — No matter how much I try, the seam gets worse
- Tamiya 2 O-Class and 1 E-Class destroyers
Still, 15 completed models for the year is a good rate, and keeps me on pace to finish my stash before I shift to the workbench in the sky (presuming typical longevity, of course).
Thanks for reading…
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