What's your 12 month build plan?

[Adam the Akrodude]

Hey all

Just thought I would start a topic to discuss our build plan for the next 12 months. I jumped onto Kev's Civil post , so I thought it best to start a separate topic to discuss what we all plan to build over the next 12 months.

Here's my plan:

1. Finish 1/32 Trumpeter Me-262-A1 - to be finished in EKdo 262 markings - 40% finished
2. Finish 1/32 Airshow Models Pitts Bulldog (late Jim Leroy) - 15% finished.
3. Italeri 1/32 F-104 to be finished as a NASA F-104N flown by Joe Walker - fatally killed colliding with a XB-70 for a GE photo shoot.
4. Roden 1/48 T-28D - to be finished as a Raven FAC in Laos.
5. Must Have! 1/48 A-26 to be finished as a A-26K "Nimrod"
6. Finish 1/48 A-Model Yak-52 "Resident Evil" - 85% finished.

It's a hugely ambitious plan and I will be lucky to finish half of what I'm setting out to do. I must put more time into modelling this coming year - that's the plan anyway. I did get a buzz finishing that DOSAAF Yak and am still riding the high of seeing all that beautiful work at Expo - always great inspiration!

Be interesting to see how we all fair in 12 months time! So what's your plan?

Cheers

Adam

[hrtpaul]

No point me planning cos I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. That's a lie. I'm sorting out my model room tomorrow. But you get the idea. I can say for a certainty though that the following (all currently WIP's) will be completed:-

1/48 Hasegawa Ki-27 Nate
1/72 Airfix A-4B Argy Skyhawk
1/72 Italeri civvie F-104
1/48 Hasegawa Racing Macchi C.202
1/72 Airfix civvie Spitfire MkIX
1/72 Frog DH Hornet
1/72 Airfix Fokker F-27 VH-TFE
and hopefully 1/144 Airfix 727

These are in addition to any others I may start as well

[DesTROYer]

I have to admit it, the A380 is destroying my modelling mojo at the moment.
I'm working on a Grumman Wildcat and a Bushmaster at the moment too which is helping, but the albatross of an airliner is still hanging around my neck.

After the above three are done, I have big plans for two (yes two) 1/48 Tamiya Bristol Beaufighters, an inflight 1/48 F-111, a 1/72 Caribou with scratch built interior and open rear door, a 1/48 Fairey Gannet and a 1/48 Kinetic Mirage III O.

I'm sure a couple more divine inspirations will pop in there too.

[tor lives]

My 12 month plan is to try and get some of the "curtain rail of doom" projects finished, (including the US Navy Convair 880, the NASA Convair 990, the Australian Airlines Fokker F-27, and the BOAC/Qantas hybrid Britannia just to name a few).
I would also like to get a couple of racers finished for the new category next year, (including the 1:48 JPS Spitty).
In reality though, I will just be happy to finish anything .
TOR

[kfutter]

I'll be happy if I can get my 1/32 birdcage Corsair conversion even halfway done by then. I've also got a 1/48 ICM Spitfire 9 in primer, waiting for a paint job and decals. I may push on with that one first, just to get my momentum back (haven't been at the workbench in over 6 weeks now). Beyond that, I have a very longstanding 1/32 Fw 190S conversion to return to, along with a full rebuild of an old 1/48 Monogram P-40. As mentioned elsewhere, I'm keen to break out another airliner too, and it'll probably be the Minicraft C-97 kit in Pan Am livery. But I'm also toying with the idea of starting a build review of the new 1/32 Mosquito kit from HK Models.

So many kits, so little time!

Kev

[oz rb fan]

once my current P40 is done....i'll start looking at my next build.....maybe something with red spots for a change.
a new racer will be done for next years expo
maybe another P40 or two

[F-27pax]

My modelling year runs from April to April, which is the month of our annual display. Last year I set myself the target of eight 1/144 Boeing 747s and eight Lightnings and managed to make them, plus a few other things. So, this modelling year's target is to complete ten Boeing 727s and nine Lightnings. There will also be a number of other things, mainly French if I can get myself motivated. There's also an Armstrong Whitworth Atlanta that I've been working on for years that is nearing completion and then a vacform 1/144 Sikorsky S.38 that I'd like to push ahead on, though probably not finish.

There, now I've said it. All I have to do is do it.

Leigh

[davecana]

To finish something, anything. I have too much on the go.
Hughes 500NTR, Latecoere 631, Mirage IV, Seagull, Thunderbirds T-33, 1908 Antoinette, Sea Fury, UH-1D, C-17, A330, plus one or two more planes. And then there's the cars, at least 15 on the go.

[Ericg]

My twelve month plan? The list is long and distinguished!

Looking at what I have on the workbench at the moment and the approximate level of completion:

Rumpler C.VI %80
Brewster Buffalo %60
Super Hornet %50
CAC Sabre %70
Lightning F.1 %90
Macchi MC72 %30
Komet ME-163 %30

I dare say I will have a few of those if not all done within the next 12 months.

There are a few others that may form part of the plan as well plus the old `sneeze and its done' kits that seem to interrupt the build schedule along the way.

Eric.

[modelbear]

I would just like to get something finished this year. On my 'shelf of doom' are a 727, several 737s and 767s, an A340 (just need to find which box I put the decals in), a Stuka, a Gotham City police car and a McLaren F1 car.
Peter