Clunkmeister

A really sad output, even for me... But oooooh what a kit it was, andeven then, it’s still not really “done” because I want to do a bit more modulation on the finish.

John, no BS and no hype. Those are the nicest builds I’ve ever see you do, and to have them all in one hear is only more mind boggling. With your OK, I’d like to put these on the LSM FB Page....

I cleaned it up for y’all. No biggie

I’d say it was a 50 something toddler.... And he looks wasted because his hat’s on crooked

We can clean my house. The Gibson’s can’t be replaced. Oh wait! Evidence! Who is this masked dude? I think we have found our culprit!

Probably will do you or row, Harv. Her Lupus is acting up again. We had a clean home and then last night, a horde of toddlers descended like a cloud of locusts. Our place is a shambles once again. AND, someone got into my bottle of Gibson’s rye whiskey.

I missed [Cat]CplSlade, every year I screw something up. But it’s been rectified behind the scenes. It’s a huge fan of this and I hope that everyone is happy.

Like many who do wooden ships, I’m basically stuck on late 18th and early 9th Century British and French ships of the Napoleonic are. I’d love to do a heavy American frigate as well, but I’m not good enough to scratchbuild yet, and there are no decent kits at all of them. Most kitmakers concentrate on those years...

And, if you’re so inclined, you can build Brubaker’s bird from The Bridges at Toko Ri.

Good choice, Gazz. That’s the least likely of the two to be done in IM, and it really is one seriously beautiful kit that builds great!

I had missed #7 and 21. I went back and drew two names. Sorry about that, Chief!

GazzaS, Leitch144, and Landlubber Mike, please PM me your addresses. Smitty, I know I have hours, you lucky so. GazzaS, choose your poison, mate.

She’s gotten two an hour at least all day, so she’s got my germs all over her.

1. Special Hobby 1/32 Hawker Tempest (Krow) won by BlrwestSiR 2. Choice of: 1/32 Fisher Hawker Sea Fury or F9F-5 Panther - (Clunkmeister) won by GazzaS 3. Takom 1/35 Renault FT and 1/35 Tiger with Wittmann’s crew in resin - (Clunkmeister) won by Leitch144 4. Eduard 1/32 Bf-109E - (BlrwestSiR) won by HubertB 5. Revell 1/32 Junkers Ju-88 A-1 - (Smitty44) won by Bill_S 6. Valiant Wungs Airframe Almum #4 on Westland Whirlwind - (HubertB) won by Winnie 7. Yellow Series Mushroom book on A5M Claude - (HubertB) won by Winnie 8. Silhouette Cameo cutting plotter w/spare cutting mat and spare blade - (HubertB) won by TJTX 7. $10 Gift Card - (Gaming Dragon32) won by Jeff 8. Reskit MH-60 main rotor hub and tail rotor upgrade sets - (Seiran01) won by GamingDragon32 9. Trumpeter 1/32 Bf-109K-4. - (1to1scale) won by Pardelhas 10. Revell 1/32 Heinkel Salamander - (Bill_S) won by BradG 11. Williams Bros 1/32 GeeBee Z racer - (Bill_S) won by 1to1scale 12. Fly 1/32 Natter - (Pardelhas) won by Krow 13. 21st Century Toys 1/32 F4U-1/4 Corsair - (ScottsGT) won by Smitty44 14. Revell 1/32 F4F-4 Wildcat Smithsonian Edition - (ScottsGT) won by AlanG 15. Trumpeter 1/32 F4U-4 Corsair - (ScottsGT) won by Recon 16. Trumpeter 1/32 P-51D Mustang - (ScottsGT) won by Harv 17. Hannants gift certificate for £50 - (GazzaS) won by ScottsGt 18. 3 new Tamiya tools, a set of photo etch bending pliers, a photo etch diamond file, and a pair of PE scissors - (Winnie) won by Seiran01 19. One package including: Warbird tech F/A-18 book, eagle strike FW-190 Fighters pt. 1, eagle cals ec32-105a P-47D, cam 32-070 F-4N VF-161 - (Recon) won by Jeff 20. 1/32 Trumpeter SBD-1/2 with Yahu panel. -(TJTX) won by Landlubber Mike 21. 1/32 Eduard Revell Fw190 F8 PE Interior (33149) and Eduard PE Seatbelt Set (32843) - (AlanG) won by GazzaS 22. 1/32 Aviattic Pfalz D.llla lozenge decals - (Pardelhas) won by Winnie 23. Wingnut Wings featured build book - (Pardelhas) won by Recon 24. TwoBobs F-16C Golden State Griffins decal sheet - ([Cat]Cpl.Slade) won bySmitty44 Grand Prizes: 1. Hobby Boss A-26 with 2x Engine upgrade kits won by Smitty44 2. ZM Ki.45 kit won by AlanG 3. Wingnut Wings Felixstowe F2a (late) won my Landlubber Mike Merry Christmas to all out there, and I hope people are excited with how it ended up. Hopefully we’ll see some new builds up on the board soon, and if you are mad at what you won, please complain to my wife. Also, one final order of business: if, through oversight on my part I didn’t award your prize or missed drawing your name, please PM me and I’ll fix it. Everyone should have won at least one prize. Ernie

Now on to the fun. Every name is put into my hat, and Joy draws them. They’re assigned a prize in the order the prizes are listed. So first name gets #1 prize, second gets #2 and so on. If there are prizes leftover after all names are drawn, and it appears there will be, the names will all go back in to be redrawn until all prizes are drawn. Then, all names are put back in and three new names are drawn from all entrants for the three big ones in the order they’re listed : A-26, the Ki-45, and finally the Felixstowe. So yes, it IS possible up to three people can with three times. So, here goes......

OK, first order of business was to clean up the entrants list. There were three people entered twice due to my own errors, they were Bill_S, Recon, and Jeff. my bad, sorry. Here’s a before and after pic: Before: After:

I’ll probably end up with Victory in 1/64, if for no other reason than to support Chris and Jim Chris designed it, and Jim built he test model and developed the book. I’ve stated publicly before that I’ll buy everything Chris brings out in 1/64, if for no other reason than to support his Company, Vanguard Models. I’ll be buying his Duchess of Kingston as well. I’ll be ah they’re eye wateringly expensive, but when you realize the year+ It takes to build one, and the superb quality of he raw materials he uses, they’re quite inexpensive.

1/64 is the perfect Man-O-War scale for me. Perfect size, big enough for a fishing boat, cutter, or whaler, small enough for a 36 Gun frigate. I have a 74, the Bellerophon in 1/72, but I’d prefer 1/64.

I’m actually looking for the binnacle, Mike. That certainly looks like a hatchway ahead of the wheel, where a lighted binnacle would logically be.

I need to plan a bit with Blacken-it. Well, first, I need to buy some, no idea where to get it. I have some nice resin 4 pounders on Speedy, and Flirt us s similar. Swivels as well. Sweet stuff. A whole nevrealm in modeling, one that seriously lights my fire, but I can’t go too long on it at one time, I burn out.

As I tell all my friends when celebrating,.... do zdrowia Mr Sliwinski across the street said that to me every year. It took me 45 years to actually learn how to spell it properly. Christmas memories from childhood are those which never, ever leave.

Nice. PE or wood? those guns.. 4 pounders?

Very nice, Phil! I truly love it.

Merry Christmas to all and as I said above, I wish you all good heath and a great year.

Mike, does the Badger use a tiller or a wheel?