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Bohrmann
👀 Front seat.

Tony May
Nice, going old school with this one, Mr. Grinter or are you planning to challenge yourself to bring this up to Eduard/modern KP/Tamiya levels? (I might be the only one delusional enough to think that I might be able to though. lol)

Brian Grinter
I'm actually just sticking my stash in here, way too many kits
Bought these years ago with the idea of a Battle of Britain diorama

Tony May
Oh, I see, just finally getting everything documented then. You should still do that BoB diorama! I have a few dioramas I'd like to do as well, but I don't have any for the BoB or anything else specific to a time frame where there would be several of the same type of aircraft there. My primary interest is a wide variety of aircraft of different variants & from conflicts spanning from 1930-1980. I also want to build more technical vehicles, Triple-A, bits of details & to add figures around the models on the shelves to busy them up a bit.

I did a complete inventory in the closing months of 2022 after having a couple of TIAs in July that year. (Minor, self-resolving, strokes.) There were kits there I had completely forgotten about & there were kits I was sure I had but they couldn't be found anywhere. Most of the kits were bagged & stored in large Rubbermaid totes so some of those kits I hadn't seen in over a decade.

As I went through them I finally properly divided them between my adult son & I. He was well on his way to becoming an even more prolific builder than his father, grandfather or great-grandfather before him. He wasn't picky about the kits he would build either as where I was becoming increasingly focused on detail & accuracy so I was happy to pass on kits I was steadily replacing. He wound up with more than 250 model aircraft, he soon passed the 300 mark though, plus he's built up a nice little section of 1/35 armor. Not long after I finished doing inventory C19 left my son legally blind though.

He hasn't touched a kit since then & although he's already clarified that he's never going to try a vac kit, build anymore biplanes or anything from WW1, that he hasn't given up on model building. Even still his omissions account for something like 1/6 of his stash of 1/72 scale models. I'm honestly unsure if his visual acuity will permit him to build anything in 1/72 since it's not just vision loss but severe retinal damage on both sides that resembles severe macular degeneration. (Two minor examples; He cannot read large print books & he has to use a 41" TV as his computer monitor.)

Speaking realistically I think that building older 1/48 aircraft models & older 1/35 tank models are his best bet for being able to continue modeling. They have fewer parts & the parts aren't so small or fiddly. He has a small handful of 1/48 aircraft models already & quite a few older 1/35 armor kits. However, as I said, the vast majority are 1/72 & some of his tanks/AFVs are quite recent releases.

I haven't asked him to join me in a build session since he lost his vision because I'm pretty sure I know what the outcome will be if he tries to tackle a 1/72 plane or a top of the line 1/35 tank; I'm just not eager to see the face he'll make at that time.

That said I guess if we do find he cannot hack 1/72 scale any longer or top notch 1/35 AFVs we can work on liquidating them in exchange for stuff that he'll definitely be interested in but will be easier to build?

Brian Grinter
yeah - I was starting to find I was getting doubles unintentional and also forgetting what I'd bought, e.g. accessories for kits.

The BoB diorama morphed into just trying to build representative aircraft of those operated by both sides in the battle.

Sorry to to hear about your son, I find it hard enough with aging eyes so must be devastating. Hope your plans come off

J D
Thx, Kathleena.

Neuling
Very well done! 👍

J D
Thanks for your comment, Neuling.

Andrej K
Great work! I love that you included some historical photos along with your work!

J D
Thanks a lot. Andrej.

I am actually trying to recreate those armored vehicles that served during WW II.

Micky
Excellent work!

J D
Thx, Micky

gorby
Very nice result!

Colin
Phenomenal detail work so far! Looking forward to the final product!

Petar Žorić
Thank you Colin! Hope it won't disappoint😄

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Nice and promising progress! Adding subtle riveting was a good decision. Even if they are barely visible on the real aircraft it adds a lot of interest to the model 🙂

DerMattes
Following, espacially to see the result with the rivets.

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting

Charles-Henri Titelion
sounds very promising!

Cuajete
Me 3!

Harry Eder
I have to watch this! Great start! 👍

DerMattes
Following 👍