I follow Dukes footsteps and show more or a less all projects I started in 2014 and that I hope I will even finalise in 2015... Not all of them, but some...
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Year 2014 started with an old Airfix Saab Draken kit.. An old one, those old "silverish" plastic sprues, brought back memories from the late 70's when I made my first kits... Well, I did not really come longer than what is in the picture... Fuselage glued and that is more or a less it.. Pending in other words.. Still planning to make a simple Finnish Air Force Saab Draken.. one day... Though, have Hasegawas duo-pack in my stash, so probably poor Airfix will become MIA.
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My next build, that actually is pretty ready but waiting for some detailing / weathering / decals, is Trumpeters 1/72 Il-28 Beagle. I even ordered AM decals with Finnish markings.. Surprise... This kit I will definitely finalise, I just need to localise it in some of all our unpacked moving boxes that are still somewhere hidden somewhere.
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After the Beagle I jumped on another jet from the 50's onwards, Hobby Crafts 1/48 de Havilland Vampire. I had read the kit was poor, but actually it was not that bad at all.. Perhaps missing details etc, but all in all good quality. I came so far with this build that I sprayed the first layer of primer.. And that is it so far, waiting for next steps.. For this Vampire I have as well AM decals, so I will finalise this for sure this year. Only problem is that all the landing gears and other small stuff is still MIA after the move.
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I had found some extremely cheap vacu form kits from an expo i visited and almost started to build one... This is supposed to be a Fokker T.VIII-W by Vac Wings ( I guess, as no manuals or so was included). I cut off one piece before I packed it nicely back in the transparent plastic bag.. But one day, yes, one day it will come out of the bag...
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Back to 1/72 scale and to a really nice classic plane from the 20's, Revells 1/72 Junkers F13W. A very nice kit, similar plastic as the Saab Draken, radiates late 70's plastic... However, when starting to concentrate on the floats, I more or a less gave up and put the build on hold. Had not enough with patience to try to glue them correctly... Hopefully this kit will still see a future as I really like the small Junkers.
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Then came my "public" WIP project, the Eduards 1/48 Grumman Hellcat as a drone. Not so much about that, there is somewhere still the thread but the build was never finalised. A little bit pity, but it is what it is sometimes.
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The small 1/72 Folland T.1 Gnat by Airfix was more or a less a weekend project. We rented a small cottage for couple of days, and I had to have something to do during the evening.. so I brought this small kit along with some colour etc with me. Pretty easy and well made kit, but I never finalised it.. And will not either... I don't even know where it is to be honest... But, it's more the good memories around this Gnat that makes this build a little bit more special.
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Jumping into armour and to Revells 1/72 T-72 tank. A really nice build, much more detailed and complicated than I ever thought.. What you see in the picture is how far it has come, a layer of green primer.. and that's about it. Pending and will be finalised soon, just found the missing tiny decals..
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Fokker D.VII 1/48 by Eduard was my next project.. For some reason I stopped with this but planning still to finalise it. Again AM decals waiting.. Pretty nice kit to build and actually should continue with that.
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As a big fan of 109's, of course I had to buy Eduards new G-6, regardless of the errors it had. Unfortunately, during the build, we started the bloody moving process and that caused I could not really continue making it at all. So what you see is the state it is in at this moment.. in some box, somewhere in a pile of other boxes.. Will dig it out one day
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And then almost 6 months of silence due to the move
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My last project that started 2014 and will continue and will be finalised is of course Eduards wonderful 1/48 Mig-21 Bis. More details in a dedicated WIP thread, have not though had too much time lately to make any improvments there, but will of course
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That's all folks, thank you having the patience reading this far ... Hope 2015 will have more "happy endings" ... :-)
- Kari
