My corner in the bedroom, and the stash.

[Stikpusher]

It's funny you got kits to build the "Planes of Niagara."

I was going to start one as the "Aircrafts of Griffiss AFB."

I already have the B-52 Stratofortress with Griffiss markings. Just got to find/collect more from their history right up to the base closure. The Delta Dart is high on my list.

Yeah, I have a couple of planned project groups like that myself. One is for the 23rd Fighter Group/TFW, since that was my son’s first unit assignment. Shark mouths on P-40s to A-10s and all sorts in between. Also, now that I live near Luke AFB, I’d like to do many of the types that were stationed there.

[Medicman71]

Funny. I'd like to do the history of the 149th FW in San Antonio. But in the grand scheme of things, I'd just like to do any aircraft from Texas.

[keyda81]

Thanks guys! My little quiet(well sometimes)corner in the house. I don't spend a whole lot of time there in summer, well really none at all. Seems I'm more of a Fall/Winter time builder. The first thing that will come off that bench is likely going to be a commission build of another "Mini Whiskey 7". I have one of the volunteers who has been bugging me for practically three years to build him one, and I finally caved. Problem is he thinks I'll build him a B-17, and the D-Day version of W7. Which isn't the case. I got 80 hours into the D-Day version, and unless he wants to pay me like 800 bucks I'm not doing it, lol. I do miss being at the bench, it will be time soon enough to get back to it. I have several projects in mind, just not sure what I'm going to tackle over the winter yet.

[Duke Maddog]

Good idea. If he wants a B-17 in 1/48 scale, ask for $1200. There's a lot to do on a B-17 that size!

[BlackSheep214]

Heh... or $3000 for a 1/32 scale B-17 kit

[keyda81]

Good idea. If he wants a B-17 in 1/48 scale, ask for $1200. There's a lot to do on a B-17 that size!

I know, that is why I don't want to do it, lol. I built a mini of the B-17 "Movie Memphis Belle" a few years ago. It was at the museum I volunteer for. They were leasing it from the Tallichet family. My daughter and myself got to take a flight up front in the nose. I landed up using a combination of Revell's F model, and Monogram's G model to get the thing done. I didn't care much for the F model kit, as it barely had any interior detail at all.



It was a long, section, but section build. I had all the PE for it, tons of reference pictures to go through, and I do not plan on doing it again, lol.

[keyda81]

Heh... or $3000 for a 1/32 scale B-17 kit

That would be one big B-17. I'd LOVE to do a C-47 in that size. I just can not bring myself to spend that much money on a kit though, even if I did have it, lol.