Modeling plans for 2005

[Regulus]

Hi,

Just being curious, what everybody's plans are for this year. Mine from last year didn't work out yet, still constructing the Jabbeke aerodrome (and for some time that will need much attention), a Mark V tank on 1:35, a Junkers DI, a Felixstowe seaplane on 1:72 and a A7V tank on 1:35.
And on my have to have list is the Zeppelin Staaken RVI from Roden.

Best from Johan

[Familyman]

Russian Nieuports with hilarious devils and bare naked ladies on them! That's for sure! Maybe some Italian Hanriots. And of course something completely impulsive...

I'll make at least one promise for the new year: I will buy more new kits than I could possibly build! I like to make promises I can keep!

Yours

Mikko

[EricGoedkoop]

I started cutting ribs for a peanut scale free flight Morane Saulnier AI last night.

After that: a US Mail DH-4, a Loening M-8, an Albatros B II. If the FF Cookup Group does the Nieuport party they're talking about, I'll probably do a IV. Or a 14.

[Brad]

The stuff I already bought- Cheap SMER and similar kits: Finish the Nieuport 17 (in Russian colors- 19th squadron) Spad 13, Ansaldo SVA 5, Fokker DVII, a couple of mandatory Albatros DIII's, (I'm thinking about attempting to scratch-build wings and do a DI from one of them!) Jenny that I still haven't built, and rebuild my EIII.

Maybe an Albatros BII or CI if I can find one, or a Rumpler. Also would like to do a DH2, a Fokker DII, and a Halberstadt DII. I'd LOVE to do a Fokker DI, but I think it would have to involve a LOT of scratch-building, and my skills just aren't there yet. Maybe a Morane in Russian colors... A Pfalz monoplane of some sort. Ok, that's probably about 3 years worth of stuff for me at the rate I do anything... hehehe

[JohnReid]

I will be probably still be working on the Jenny diorama this time next year.Cheers! John.

[StephenLawson]

The easy answer is - everything I can from Roden, Eduard, Dragon and Hi-Tech. But here is what I'm interested in building for the next couple of years. Shhhh! don't tell anybody....its supposed to be a secret. The "X" means kits on hand "0" means need to get.

1/48 KITS To Build;
Central Powers
1.Albatros C.III Wood veneer two toned wings. Diorama“The Good Comrade”- German- shot up observer, being lifted out while the aircraft is loaded, re-fueled, re-armed,patched?
2.Albatros C.III Over all Lt. Blue on a Gimble table. Diorama “Advanced Gunnery Training.” X
Albatros D.V & D.Va
1. /17 Ltn. Dilthey J.40 CO April 1918 OTF 10/3/213 Loz. Grn/Wht X
2. /17 Ltn. Udet J.37 CO. Nov.1917 Lozenge-All Black-LO X
3. /17 Ltn. Vallend J.2 May-June1917 2 toned -Zebra X
4. 4693/17 MvR JG.I CO Nov. 1917 Lozenge-Fuselage 2/3 red X
5. 2059/17 MvR JG.I CO Sept 1917 Lozenge?-Fuselage All Red X
6. 1177/17 MvR JG.I CO June 1917 All Red-Translucent X
7.7343/17 Ltn.Naether J.62 CO April 1918 2 toned - Black Fuselage - Flag X
8. /17 Oblt. Rudo-R. J.17 CO Oct. 1918 Lozenge black & white tail X
9.5787/17 Ltn.Kolb J.76b 1918 Lozenge ‘München Kindl’ X
10. /17 Ltn. Mendel J.15 19.6-20.8 1917 Lozenge skullnbones -fuse. black X
11. /17 Vzfw Rumey J.5 Fall 1917 2 toned w/B&W stripes X

Albatros D.I-III
1. D.III Ltn. Voss J.2,5.14,29.10 Spring 1917. Center radiator X
2. D.III 2377/17 Vzfw. Witten. J.50 See file(OAW) Off set radiator B&W zig-zag X
3. D,III 789/19 Ritt. MvR J.11 April-1917 Off set radiator. X
4. “Blau Maus” Ltn. Fromm J. 2 Spring 1917 Centered Rad. X
5. D.I 910/16 Prinz Freidrich Cutaway Av.Aw of Imp Ger. Vol. V 0
6. D.II X

1. Aviatik Berg D.1 Linke-Crawford 115.32 X

1. Etrich Taube D2 X

Fokker Dr.I
1. 419/17 Ltn. Göttsch J.19 CO White Top Wing X
2. 103/17 Ltn.Voss Factory-Grn/Blue-O.D. cowl X
3. 152/17 Ritt. MvR Red top wing, rear fus.,struts, wheel cov.& Cowl X
4. /17 Crash
5. /17 Factory

Fokker D.II
2393/16 Kest 4b Black & white striped tail black rudder white cross. X

Fokker D.VI Kest 4b 5 color Loz. Spares box X

Fokker D.VII
1.(Early Schwerin)- “Du Doch Nicht!!” Oblt. Udet, Red Fuselage LO!-striped top wing. X
2. (Early Alb. built) Ltn. Hartmann J.30 Witch on a broom X
3. (Early Alb. built) Ltn. C. Degelow J. 40 Leaping Stag X
4. Late OAW, Ukrainian 1919-1922 /Finnish D.357 on skis X
5. Late OAW, D.6722/18 Captured all white of 9th Aero Sqdn. X
6. Early Schwerin - Cutaway SoW #1 X
7. Late OAW Soviet Pharaoh X
8. X
9. X 10. X
11. X

1. Fokker E.V 144/18 Goethe MFJ III. X
2. Fok. D.VIII with 11 cylinder Siemens Halske X

1. Halb. CL.II Schlasta w/Flames on cowl. Add Koster metal parts. Wing being repaired X
2. Halb. CL.IV X 1. Hannover CL.II X

Pfalz D.III/IIIa
1. Pfalz D.III Hegler J.15 Cut away “Spoils of war pt 2" Parts Box X
2. Pfalz D.IIIa Holtzem J.16b Guardian angel X
3. Pfalz D.IIIa Degelow J.7 Leaping Stag X

ALLIED POWERS
1. DH-2 RFC #24 Sqdn. X
2. DH-2 Wrecked Use Renwal kit? Based on “Lost in France” ? X

1.Nieu 17.C N 1550 Guynemer Esc. N.3? X
2.Nieu 17.C N. Lufbery ESC. N.214 X
3.Nieu.17.C Capt. A.S. Shepard , 29 Sqdn RFC X

Nieu. 21 for Issoudon diorama XXXXX

1.Nieu.23 Russian - Atlee Russian Pilot X
Morane Saulnier
1. M.S. N. British w/wire wheels exposed? X
2. M.S. I. Russian on skis. (Flashback Kit?) 0

Sopwith Camel
1. 2F.1 N5 Kit crash -left over Blue Max kit parts with Aurora wings & etc. X
2. 2F.1 X

Sopwith Pup X
1. Spad XIII Larner 103 RD Aero P.D.Decals X
2. Spad XIII Colombey le Belles 1st Air Depot Hangar Queen #2 X

1. SE.5a Grinnell-Milne “Schweinhund”? RAF 56 Sqdn. Red fuse. X
2. SE 5a Viper ...Nother American or airframe left at 138th Aero in 1919. X

[greenknight]

I've resumed work on my 1/4 scale Fokker D.VIII, from the Glenn Torrance "Low-Cost" kit version. I bought a couple of add-ons that Glenn offers, and am currently building the Fokker Seat Mini-Kit for it. This Mini-Kit is a fun little project:

http://www.gtmodels.com/web/pages/NEW-PRODUCTS.htm

Like Eric G., I plan to join the Nieuport build with the FFCookup Yahoo group this spring if it is a go. I've had a fascination with Nieuport V-Strutters for the last few months, bolstered by rereading Alexander Riaboff's memoir "Gatchina Days" over the Christmas Holidays.

A belated Happy New Year All!

[John Masters]

I've just started a PhonixC1 from Modelbud (very nice), my first resin kit. I also have numerous others planned- Aviatik Berg 1/72 from EE, some Roden Alb. D3 kits, but I'm excited about working more of my Russian Civil War Bluerider decals into my life. Plenty of Snipes, SE-5's, Spads, and others. I also picked up the BlueRider decal series for the 'Tintin' books. I grew up with those books and Herge's aircraft drawings were always fun, especially the Bordurian Messerschmidt and the middleeastern Mosquitos. All for now, lads, I'm off....

[GregorySharp]

Stephenlawson,
With that list of yours I can't help to wonder if you have a small staff helping you.

For 2005,
I would like to add a minimum of 6 complete builds to my site, The Fokker Factory. I’m a very slow modeler and I hate that. I just can’t push myself too hard on a kit or cut corners. It needs to be done a certain way or I don’t want to do it at all. I am so sloooooowwww! I drive myself crazy. I can zone on one piece an widdle and sand it for ever. Maybe I'll get a timer and limit myself?

So after I finish my Albatros DV that I started in Nov 04, I want to the Hanriot D2/ w floats. After that, the new 1/48 DH –2!!!!

[edmondthieffry]

Hi all,

Actually, I build an old Revell Nieuport 17. Plenty of fun with this model : I've to redo most of the details and to correct a lot of mistakes. Wings, tailplane, rudder and ailerons are corrected, reshaped and ready for the paint shop. Most cockpit details are finished. I hope to finish the whole thing for the end of this month or most probably in February.

After that, I've a lot of models to build this year :

Toko Aviatik Berg D.I, Hansa brandenbourg D.I, Nieuport XI and Pfalz D.XII;
Airfix Roland D.II, Hannover Cl.III or IIIa, Avro 504 and D.H.4.
I've too to scratchbuild two models for the MRA : a Cesar Bataille 1913 and a Train.

I've to finish 4 vehicles : a Schneider Ca 1entirely scratchbuild, an Ehmar A7V, a Ford T ambulance and a Tank Mk.II (conversion of the venerable Airfix Mk I).

If I've sufficient time, one (or more) of my 600 unbuilt kits or maybe the new Roden Zeppelin Stakken R.VI.

Best regards from my little country

Philippe