Latest Acquisitions
Oh gosh.
I build in fits and starts. Most builds I get a hang up about something and put it aside and mess with something else. I've got more kits to build than I'll ever get done, the list is quite long. I always say "I'm done buying kits", but, well, something always comes along. You know the drill.
I'm concentrating on a fleet oiler for a friend that served on USS Mattaponi AO41 in the 60's. Got hung up on the hoses and rigging but want to get this thing done. That's what the black paints and the lycra rigging is all about.
Next, not necessarily in this order are;
1/12 scale wood "Lightning" sailboat, partly done. Took it on as a commission build, 50% down, 50% on completion, but the guy has never paid me a penny yet. Told him I wouldn't work on it anymore until he paid me the money and I haven't heard from him in months. I 'll probably just finish it just to get it off my bench. I'll never do another commission job.
An "Egg" ESSEX aircraft carrier started for a monthly contest at the club, but never finished.
1/350 Tamiya Missouri, #78018 2005 edition, sent to me by a friend in Australia. Been collecting aftermarket stuff for the build. Building it as 1944. Got the hull cleaned up and ready to assemble, now set aside.
A 1/32 Guillows wood kit of a DC-3. I flew out from home on one when I joined the Navy in 1960.
A 1957, 1/540 scale, vintage Revell kit of USS ESSEX with the angled deck. I built this kit when I was 16, never knowing at the time I would serve on that very ship. My son's found an unopened vintage kit, and bought it for me for Christmas a few years back. I've collected PE, aircraft appropriate for her as a CVS, corrected Island, Hangar deck + hull widening correction set, decals. Now, with 3D printing, it's getting easier to get stuff in those "box scale" sizes. This was MY SHIP, so I want this one done right. :captain
A 1/16 scale, wood, Model Airways Wright Flier. (No, I'm not that old to have flown in one, maybe close). Just an interesting kit.
1/35 LCM-3 with a cargo of a Jeep ambulance, stuff, Dodge truck ambulance and crew.
plus, about 18 aircraft and misc kits, 28 plastic ship kits (some vintage) and 8 wood ship kits. :skipper
I had some build logs on some of these, but lost all the picks with the PB fiasco. Also, some of the logs were in a defunct forum I followed (Hippy Ed was in that forum as well). Here, I have re-built one or two threads with new pics using IMJUR, and as I get back to the various builds my intent is to re-post the picks in each one of them.
If I could build on average, 1 kit every 6 months, I will be 108 years old.
EJ
