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Updated 31 December 2023

Having build another model kit, I have updates my to-do list. I now consider my to-do list more as a list of my collection of model airplanes. I thought three years-ago that it was a great idea to have a to-do list of what I have in my collection, especially when Amazon was always putting on ads whenever I was opening my computer and going on the Internet. This was before Plaza Japan started hitting me with the same.

I was hoping in 2021 that I could be avoiding going on another spending spree, and planning ahead on my next builds by setting up some priorities… Well I was being wrong and I kept adding more model kits in my collection in 2021, 2022 and 2023. This is now the updated list of model kits.

Now what about my collection of unbuilt model kits as of December 31, 2023…

Planes (74)

Academy (2)

USN SB2U-3 Vindicator (bought Spring 2023)

USN TBF1-3 Avenger (bought Spring 2023)

ICM (1)

Ju 88 C-6 (bought on January 21, 2020)

Airfix (2)

Boulton-Paul Defiant (bought in 2018)

Battle of Britain and Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 (bought in 2018)

Eduard (11)

P-39 Weekend edition (bought in December 2019)

Spitfire Mk IX (bought in December 2019)

F6F Hellcat Weekend edition (bought in January 2020)

Spitfire Mk XVI Weekend edition (bought in January 2020)

Me 110 E (bought in January 2020)

Me 109 G-4 (bought in February 2020)

FW 190 D (bought in March 2020)

Me 109 E-3 (bought in March 2020)

FW 190 A-8 (bought in March 2020)

Hawker Tempest Mk V (bought in June 2020)

P-51 D (bought in June 2020)

Tamiya (29)

Bristol Beaufighter Mk VI (bought after 2000)

Hawker Harrier (bought in the 1990s)

de Havilland Mosquito (bought in 2018)

P-47 M (bought in 2019)

F4U-1/2 Corsair (bought in August 2019)

F4U-1D Corsair with tug (bought in 2019)

Me 262 (bought in December 2019)

FW 190D (bought in January 2020)

IL-2 Sturmovik (bought in February 2020)

Bristol Beaufighter TFX (bought in June 2020)

P-38 F/J (bought in June 2020)

P-47 D Razorback (bought in September 2020)

P-51 B (bought in September 2020)

P-38 F/J (bought in 2021)

Mitsubishi G4M Betty (bought in 2021)

Fairey Swordfish (bought in 2021)

De Havilland Mosquito Mk IV (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – old version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – new version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb – tropical version (bought in 2021)

Mustang Mk III (bought in 2021)

Nakajima Ki 84 (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 219 (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 162 (bought in 2021)

Avro Lancaster (bought in 2023)

P-38J (bought in 2022)

Nakajima J1N1 Gekko (bought in 2023)

Mitsubishi Raiden Jack (bought in 2023)

Revell (1)

B1-B (bought in 1990s)

Monogram (22)

Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk (a gift from a WWII veteran air gunner in 2010)

Hawker Harrier (bought in the 1980s and started with my granddaughter in November 2023)

Hawker Typhoon (bought in the 1990s)

SBD Dauntless (bought in the 1980s)

Vought Kingfisher (bought in the 1990s)

Pro Modeler SB2C Helldiver (bought in 2022)

Pro Modeler A-26 B Invader (bought after 2000)

B-24 J (bought in the 1980s)

B-25 J (bought in the 1990s)

B-58 (bought in the 1980s)

F4 Phantom (bought in the 1980s)

F-8 Crusader (bought in the 1980s)

F-80 (bought in the 1980s)

F-84 (bought in the 1980s)

A6 Douglas Skyraider (bought in the 1980s)

A7 Corsair (bought in the 1980s)

F-100 (bought in the 1980s)

F-101 (bought in the 1980s)

F-102 (bought in the 1980s)

F-105 (bought in the 1980s)

F-106 (bought in the 1980s)

F-117 (bought in the 1980s)

I have bought all these to reminisce on the good old days…

Hasegawa (4)

P-40 E (bought in 2018)

Douglas Dauntless (bought in 2018)

Zero Type 52 (Minicraft/Hasegawa) (bought in 1990s)

Nakajima B5N Kate (bought in 2021)

Trumpeter (2)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/72 scale (bought in February 2020)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/48 scale (bought in April 2022)

Ships (2)

Trumpeter (2)

USS Lexington 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

USS Saratoga CV-3 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

 

So with so many model kits waiting to be built, I still realize that it’s not that important if I build them all… Just having them is.

 

2023 Year-end review

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Day 676 since you know what… Sunday December 31, 2023 First let’s start with my 2023 resolutions I wrote back on My Forgotten Hobby VI. First resolution: I won’t be buying another model kit in 2023, Pro Modeler Curtiss Helldiver SB2C-4 being the last one bought in 2022. Not kept since I have added three […]

2023 Year-end review

Intermission – Airfix 1/72 Short Sunderland Mk. III (converted to a Mk. I) — Static Capital

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I have always wanted to build Airfix Short Sunderland…

This build is worth a look.

SHORT SUNDERLAND Mk. I On the afternoon of April 9th 1940 this aircraft took off from Invergordon, Scotland to make a reconnaissance flight over the Oslo area of Norway to gather information on German movements after their recent attack. They were quickly spotted by the Germans at the captured Fornebu Airport, near Oslo, and from […]

Airfix 1/72 Short Sunderland Mk. III (converted to a Mk. I) — STATIC CAPITAL

Intermission – ICM Ju 88C-6 – Remembering the good old days of the 60s.

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Updated 21 December 2022

My journey into the past is still continuing on My Forgotten Hobby II, and I don’t know where it will lead me in the future since I have used up all my 3 gigabyte allowance on WordPress…

I have always wanted to build German WWII bombers in 1:48 scale since the 60s. In the 60s I was in my early teens and I had not that much money, and there was no 1:48 scale German bomber model kits except this model kit which was a 1:64 scale Ju 88.

In the 60s there was no Internet and no Amazon. I remember building Lindberg’s Ju 88, and this box cover brings back old memories when building model airplanes was my favorite pastime.

This pastime led me to learn more about the history of WWII and later studied to become a history teacher in the late 60s, teaching history in the 70s for only 2 years out of 34, and retiring in 2004. I guess teaching history for only two years left a void I am trying to fill when I started writing blogs about WWII in 2009.

Anyway…

Lindberg’s Ju 88 is why I just had to buy these two model kits made by ICM last week. The first one I bought was a Junkers Ju 88A-14…

and a few hours after its sister bomber a Dornier Do 17-2.

After I had bought the Ju 88A-14 and the Do 17Z-2 I found that ICM had also made this version of the Ju 88, the Ju 88C-6

A nighfigther version!

I could not stop looking for more ICM model kits on Amazon! That Ju 88 version was the plane which created havoc amongst RAF and RCAF bombers flying over France and Germany.  As luck would have it, it was readily available on Amazon for the modest price of $51.34 CDN plus 4.99 for shipping.

For a moment I thought of cancelling the Ju 88A-14  I had bought on impulse buying…

No way!

Then I read the profile of the modeler who had reviewed the Ju 88A-14 on iModeler. This person has 600 model kits of which only 25% have been built. I have only a little over 60 unbuilt model kits and I can’t begin to imagine when I will build all of them.

So what about ICM Ju 88C-6…?

This is an interesting review of the ICM Ju 88 C-6.

http://www.hyperscale.com/2018/reviews/kits/icm48238reviewjh_1.htm

While reading the review it became obvious that I could build the Ju 88C-6b another nightfighter version of the Ju 88 which is selling for more than $80 CDN on Amazon.

This is a review of that model kit.

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235048447-junkers-ju88c-6b-german-wwii-night-fighter-48239-148/

With the Ju 88C-6 model kit we already have these extra parts…

My Forgotten Hobby is just remembering the good old days of the 60s which is always a click away on Amazon…

ICM He 111 H-3?

It’s a beauty!

1/48 ICM 48261 Heinkel He-111 H-3 Kit Review… and it’s a beauty!