SPA Modeler

At my most recent AMPS meeting we had our annual Four Hour Build Challenge. In this challenge, everyone picks a model they think they can get done in four hours. Hair dryers were provided to speed the drying of paint in order to facilitate things. Any model any scale was allowed, so I chose an ancient blister-packed kit of the Airfix P-51D Mustang. This is the very ancient model that barely resembles a P-51, had no cockpit interior, the decals were quite yellow and it was extremely basic in construction.

After three hours and ten minutes, I had this finished:







It does look like a child did it, and it has tons of flaws, but it was done in three hours which makes me quite happy. I like it.

Thanks for looking in.

A four hour shake n’ bake session. You got it done in 3. Nice!

Wow - now that is a challenge! Looks like you got it together in good form. Curious what else folks were able to finish.

Mark, you did damn good on that ancient kit. Especially considering that was done in 3 hours!
I’m curious as to what else was done at the meeting. Since you guys started early, I was unable to make it in time from work.

That looks brilliant for a 3 hour build That's a very odd looking 'Stang though - my goodness did Airfix need to do a new tooling!

Way better than I could do in that time!!! Very nice!!

Guys, thanks for the awesome comments!

Blacksheep, I was surprised that I got it done that fast. Thanks for the compliment.

Kevin, thanks. I think two other 1/72 scale vehicle models were finished, and one person also completed a 1/48 scale vehicle.

Carlos thanks. We mostly just built. Konrad even got 78% of his model done! A few other things were bantered about. I'm now the "New Kit News" guy.

Stuart, thanks. It was indeed an odd looking pony, It's a good thing they did a new tooling very recently.

Thanks Medic!