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Updated 6 February 2023

From knowing anything in 2009 about the Tribal class destroyers, and even less about HMCS Athabaskan G07, which was sunk on April 29, 1944, and even more less that my wife’s uncle was a stoker aboard the ship when it was torpedoed by T24 a torpedo boat of the German Navy…

This story has become more and more amazing by finally being able to build a replica of HMCS Athabaskan G07, and being in contact since January with the son of a sailor who was in the engine room aboard T24 when it sank the Athabaskan.

Believe it or not…

USS Lexington CV-2 | The Museum Modeler

I should stop looking for inspiration… and stop going shopping on Amazon!

https://themuseummodeler.wordpress.com/completed-builds/1700-ships/uss-lexington-cv-2/

This will be the last one I will buy…

USS Saratoga circa June/July 1942

My inspiration for the CV-3 USS Saratoga…

https://richardharmervfn101.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/uss-saratoga-circa-junejuly-1942/

It has been more than two years that I have been waiting to build the Saratoga on which Richard Harmer flew his F-4F Wildcat on August 24, 1942…

A blog is dedicated to him and to the aviators who flew on the Saratoga in July and August 1942.

Arrived!

Now I am waiting for CV-3 USS Saratoga.

Looking around for inspiration

I got my Tamiya 1/700 USS Yorktown model kit this afternoon in the mailbox.

I already had received the Enterprise and the Hornet two weeks ago.

And my extra 1/700 scale US Navy airplanes because I was not sure I would have F4U Corsairs so I could convert them to night fighters as they would appear on the Enterprise in early 1944.

I still have two more carriers in the mail. The USS Saratoga CV-3 and the USS Essex CV-9.

So I still have lots a time to procrastinate before deciding which one to build first.

Modeling War Damage – USS Franklin (CV-13)

Impressive!

https://wp.me/p3ABkL-pM

Eduard Tempest MkV Review Part Three

Eduard Tempest MkV Kit Review Part Two

Monogram 1:48 TBD Devastator

Impressive build!

B-25 J Project Final Countdown

The B-25 J will have to stay in the hangar for now since I could not meet my deadline.

I still have the framing to do on the upper turret.

I have learned a nice technique for canopies which worked well. It would have worked better but I had glued the canopies. 

I will have to learn not to rush and set a deadline at least not on My Forgotten Hobby II.

My Forgotten Hobby is in its fifth year since I started going back in childhood time on December 6th, 2013…

This is what I had written…

What’s your favorite hobby?

Mine is writing blogs.

Before, this was my favorite hobby… Building model kits.

Why not combine both hobbies, one from the past with this one?

While you are pondering over this, you can visit this blog about an amateur  airplane model kit builder whose motto is Let’s build!

Click here.