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speedgraflex wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 3:55 pm Tom’s ideas are great! Let’s choose a subject from his inventory and build it. I see he purchased a 1/48 Eduard Sopwith Camel which is a kit I own, so this was pretty easy even for me with very few kits available.

I like that idea

I've got the 1/144 Minicraft DC-6B in the stash. There are a lot of others but I think John would have appreciated that.

I have two kits in my stash of aircraft John built: an Airfix H.S Dominie and the Roden Fairchild C-123. I've been wanting to start the C-123 already so I think I'll jump in with that one. If there's still time afterward; I'll finish a Dominie.

Sounds like this group build is well received. I’ll put up the Group Build Thread.

I guess someone should promote this from a Feeler to a genuine group build then...

I'm in obviously - although I might not be able to start until towards the end of the month.

When I think of John's models, I generally think of his lovely clean builds of USAAF, USAF and Japanese aircraft, along with some interesting off the wall subjects such as prototypes. To me his stand-out build was that XP-47 he built a few years ago. So I may well go with one of those - if I can get hold of a conversion set once I've paid the tax man.

https://www.halberdmodel.co/en-gb/produ ... 1-48-scale

This was John's build.

I’m in…as much as I can be. Things with Pam are not improving as quickly as everyone would like.

John was the perfect role model of what this hobby should be.

Well said Lyle.

Very true Lyle!