Most pleasurable builds

[Airborne01]

cheers Steve glad you like em an what is your three models that gave you pleasure to build ?
chrisb

Hi Chris!
I enjoyed surmounting the challenge of the Bergepanther, secondly my unfinished Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire, and lastly (a real rave from the grave) an Admiralty scale model of the Billy Ruffian aka HMS Bellerophon. This was a traditional plank-on-frame model, constructed from 'oriiginal' drafts that took 4 years to build and sold for the princely sum of £1000! - that was the last such model I built and sadly I have no photographic record to remember it by! Your work deserves to be remembered mate!
Steve

[Valeron]

As I'm pretty new to this I'm only on my third pleasurable.build.

I failed abysmally at a 1/72 Tiger Moth and a 1/35 Achilles Tank Destroyer

But I Loved making my 1/72 Airfix Spitfire Vc and the Airfix 1:72 Curtis P-40B Warhawk

And I'll truly hoping that the Mossie I am currently building will be my most pleasurable build so for.

[boatman]

Hi Chris!
I enjoyed surmounting the challenge of the Bergepanther, secondly my unfinished Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire, and lastly (a real rave from the grave) an Admiralty scale model of the Billy Ruffian aka HMS Bellerophon. This was a traditional plank-on-frame model, constructed from 'oriiginal' drafts that took 4 years to build and sold for the princely sum of £1000! - that was the last such model I built and sadly I have no photographic record to remember it by! Your work deserves to be remembered mate!
Steve

MANY THANKS Steve for your kind comments on my work very nice of you an pity about not seein your models
chrisb

[Allen Dewire]

Hmmm, most of my builds were pleasurable really, but three do stand out the most. First was a last production Panther G built by M.A.N, down the road from where I live, in Nuremberg Germany in March '45,


Very Pleasurable because it was the first GB project I finished inside the timeframe......Next is a wing thingy of a Heinkel He-162 prototype. Had the kit in the stash for some years and then, at a show, I found a reference book for it. In it, I saw 2 pics of the first He-162 built by Junkers in Bernberg, Saxony and had to build it from the pics,


The pics re-awakened my early love for wing thingy's in large scale. The serial number designates the first one built and the 300 prefix was the Junker factory number. No camo on this prototype and the cannons in the fuselage were dummies. First and only time I tried to recreate a model from an actual picture......The most pleasurable build was my Fz. 105 Styer 2000A generator wagon used to supply the juice for tests and launching V2 rockets. Only the Tamiya Steyr kit (very modified) and a resin generator kit from Leadwarrior were used. The rest was all scratchy,


I used 13 B/W photos as there are no plans or blueprints for this vehicle to be found and the Gusgofast Guesstimation Measurement System to build it. A year later, new photos surfaced and I have gutted the interior to rebuild it correctly (cabinet where the back seat normally sits, is wrong). Gotta love this hobby!!!......Thanks Mr. Smiff for starting this post.....

Prost
Allen

[JR]

Hmmm, most of my builds were pleasurable really, but three do stand out the most. First was a last production Panther G built by M.A.N, down the road from where I live, in Nuremberg Germany in March '45,

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Very Pleasurable because it was the first GB project I finished inside the timeframe......Next is a wing thingy of a Heinkel He-162 prototype. Had the kit in the stash for some years and then, at a show, I found a reference book for it. In it, I saw 2 pics of the first He-162 built by Junkers in Bernberg, Saxony and had to build it from the pics,

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The pics re-awakened my early love for wing thingy's in large scale. The serial number designates the first one built and the 300 prefix was the Junker factory number. No camo on this prototype and the cannons in the fuselage were dummies. First and only time I tried to recreate a model from an actual picture......The most pleasurable build was my Fz. 105 Styer 2000A generator wagon used to supply the juice for tests and launching V2 rockets. Only the Tamiya Steyr kit (very modified) and a resin generator kit from Leadwarrior were used. The rest was all scratchy,

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I used 13 B/W photos as there are no plans or blueprints for this vehicle to be found and the Gusgofast Guesstimation Measurement System to build it. A year later, new photos surfaced and I have gutted the interior to rebuild it correctly (cabinet where the back seat normally sits, is wrong). Gotta love this hobby!!!......Thanks Mr. Smiff for starting this post.....

Prost
Allen

That is typical Dude1 use your great system and then some one produces the real drawings, very unfair .Still very neat work .

[Jack L]

In no particular order:

• Trumpeter 1/35 KRIEGSLOKOMOTIVE BR52
• Bronco 1/35 Versuchwagen 8.8cm Flak
• Meng 1/35 Jagdpanther

These are all my most recent builds, and I think my slight advancement in modelling skills have meant they are some of the first models to come out how I pictured them.

[Allen Dewire]

Thanks Dude 2!!! So true, so true....................

[Allen Dewire]

In no particular order:

• Trumpeter 1/35 KRIEGSLOKOMOTIVE BR52
• Bronco 1/35 Versuchwagen 8.8cm Flak
• Meng 1/35 Jagdpanther

These are all my most recent builds, and I think my slight advancement in modelling skills have meant they are some of the first models to come out how I pictured them.

And they are most excellently done too Jack!!!! Most excellently done............................

[Jack L]

And they are most excellently done too Jack!!!! Most excellently done............................

Thank you Allen, very kind!

[Mini Me]

Hmmm, most of my builds were pleasurable really, but three do stand out the most. First was a last production Panther G built by M.A.N, down the road from where I live, in Nuremberg Germany in March '45,

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Very Pleasurable because it was the first GB project I finished inside the timeframe......Next is a wing thingy of a Heinkel He-162 prototype. Had the kit in the stash for some years and then, at a show, I found a reference book for it. In it, I saw 2 pics of the first He-162 built by Junkers in Bernberg, Saxony and had to build it from the pics,

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The pics re-awakened my early love for wing thingy's in large scale. The serial number designates the first one built and the 300 prefix was the Junker factory number. No camo on this prototype and the cannons in the fuselage were dummies. First and only time I tried to recreate a model from an actual picture......The most pleasurable build was my Fz. 105 Styer 2000A generator wagon used to supply the juice for tests and launching V2 rockets. Only the Tamiya Steyr kit (very modified) and a resin generator kit from Leadwarrior were used. The rest was all scratchy,

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I used 13 B/W photos as there are no plans or blueprints for this vehicle to be found and the Gusgofast Guesstimation Measurement System to build it. A year later, new photos surfaced and I have gutted the interior to rebuild it correctly (cabinet where the back seat normally sits, is wrong). Gotta love this hobby!!!......Thanks Mr. Smiff for starting this post.....

Prost
Allen

Love that Panther!!....even has the eighth station stamped steel road wheel!!! :thumb2: :thumb2: :thumb2:

[Airborne01]

Hmmm, most of my builds were pleasurable really, but three do stand out the most. First was a last production Panther G built by M.A.N, down the road from where I live, in Nuremberg Germany in March '45,

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Very Pleasurable because it was the first GB project I finished inside the timeframe......Next is a wing thingy of a Heinkel He-162 prototype. Had the kit in the stash for some years and then, at a show, I found a reference book for it. In it, I saw 2 pics of the first He-162 built by Junkers in Bernberg, Saxony and had to build it from the pics,

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The pics re-awakened my early love for wing thingy's in large scale. The serial number designates the first one built and the 300 prefix was the Junker factory number. No camo on this prototype and the cannons in the fuselage were dummies. First and only time I tried to recreate a model from an actual picture......The most pleasurable build was my Fz. 105 Styer 2000A generator wagon used to supply the juice for tests and launching V2 rockets. Only the Tamiya Steyr kit (very modified) and a resin generator kit from Leadwarrior were used. The rest was all scratchy,

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I used 13 B/W photos as there are no plans or blueprints for this vehicle to be found and the Gusgofast Guesstimation Measurement System to build it. A year later, new photos surfaced and I have gutted the interior to rebuild it correctly (cabinet where the back seat normally sits, is wrong). Gotta love this hobby!!!......Thanks Mr. Smiff for starting this post.....

Prost
Allen

Love the Heinkel! Lovely stuff all round though mate.
Steve

[Allen Dewire]

Thanks Rick, Very few built in March 45' before the factory was bombed severely by the allies. The German Waffenamt never officially gave it the "stamp of approval" to be issued to the troops, but it ended up in combat here in Bavaria until the end anyway.............

Thank you too Steve!!! Junkers had an underground factory in Bernberg and built the 162 under license from Heinkel. I used to deliver electric vehicles we made, to Bernberg, for use in the salt mine(s) under the town. Never got to go underground to have a look around and the workers never talked about the history of the mine(s) either......

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Allen

[Ian M]

HI Ian have you no pics of your R/N aircraft as would like to see them ?
chrisb

If you have a dig through the completed aircraft section I am sure you will find most of them...as Andy pointed out at the start of this thread, it is not a show and tell.

[JR]

Several come to mind, the T34 , going through a factory wall and crushing a German Gun.
The Bunker with lights , and the Russian self-propelled gun inside a house with snow .
Hard really to pick as really enjoyed doing the dioramas .

[BarryW]

Pleasurable does not necessarily mean the easiest, most modern tooling or the most accurate, not that I have problems with any of these. Neither does it mean my favourite subject….

Trumpeter 1/24 Hurricane


Trumpeter 1/32 Dauntless


HobbyBoss 1/32 Sturmovik


The last two pictured are the first build of each I did.

Note that none are Tamiya who produce the best kits I have ever built and all three are from the Trumpy/Hobbyboss stable. I do find it a little odd that those builds I remember most fondly are from a mid-range manufacturer with something of a mixed reputation…

That said a honourable mention must go to the Tamiya 1/32 Corsair which was an amazing kit, a joy to build and among the best aircraft models ever produced. It just missed out by a whisker in being one of the above.