Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 From january till now i've been photo logging the kits i have finished each month, a habit that i started last year.i was freshly discharge from armed forces and awaiting my university studies in july, and hence had a lot of time to build plastic. needless to say, i wasnt working too. SO everyday was a plastic day, of thinner highs and cement fumes. Enjoy the poor pics, i ain't a good photo shooter. but comments and critiques welcome! january (14+1 refurbish) 1/72 VVS models Su-2 (this is avery rare limited run kit) same as above kopro 1/72 su-7 kitech 1/48 Junkers 88 SMER 1/48 SM79 sparviero kangnam 1/72 mig 31 italeri 1/48 eurofighter italeri 1/48 f-18 e esco 1/48 f-18a Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 and part 2 of january italeri 1/48 f117 academy 1/72 ah-64 academy 1/72 OV-10 hasegawa 1/72 F-4E turkey airforce asegawa 1/72 f-4e korean airforce hasegawa 1/72 f-4e iranian airforce and then february . revell 1/48 p-61 black widow monogram 1/48 devastator minihobby 1/48 taiwanese fighter matchbox 1/72 f-16 indonesia special Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 feb output continued tamiya 1/100 lightning pioneer models 1/72 Su-15 3 academy and 1 hasegawa 1/72 f-15 eagles Marching onwards in March. heller 1/72 mirage IV Crown models 1/144 He-111 1/144 P-38 Big models 1/200 XB-70 Valkyrie tamiya 1/100 F-4E and some science fiction as well Bandai 1/100 MG HI-Nu gundam Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 and then in April i built 4, tamiya 1/72 F-4E Greek airforce Airfix! 1/72 mirage III hobbycraft 1/72 Bell X-1 Academy 1/48 P-47N May was spent with the heavies.. Eastern express 1/72 B-26 eastern express 1/72 B-25 doyusha 1/300 B-2 spirit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 and the 1st part of my Tomcat GB, finished in june after on and off working at them since my military days all are 1/72 hasegawa VF-1, kit decals academy VF-2, hase decals academy VF-14, hase decals academy Vf-21, fujimi decals kitech vf-24, own decals academy vf-32, hase decals kitech vf-33, hase decals hobbycraft vf-41, kit decals kitech vf-51, academy decals kitech vf-74, italeri decals Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 hasegawa VF-84, kit decals hobby craft vf-102, kit decals italeri vf-103, hobbycraft decals academy vf-111, hase decals italeri vf-142, kit decals kitech vf-143, twobobs decals academy vf-154, fujimi decals kitech vf-211, own decals Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 hasegawa basic kits, 1/200 scale little kiddies academy flankerski, own decals and masking he!! and in july Bandai 1/100 MG Zeta 1/48 Tamiya A6M3 Zero Arii 1/48 Ki-84 Frank Arii 1/48 Ki-44 Tojo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 and i august i took a breather while i was in school. but the factory restarted in late august. The kits you see below were all assembled and sprayed in october to december, having spent august and september in the assembly plant. Revell 1/72 Saudi Arabian Tornado Airfix 1/72 Italian Tornado Airfix 1/72 British tornado Tamiya 1/100 lightning Fujimi 1/72 F-4K phantom 'yellow bird' - This one is for the Fleet air arm groupbuild. it's done! Airfix 1/72 Red Arrows Gnat A field of Flankers, for the Wings of the Red Star group build, done too. Tamiya 1/72 Su-27 Zvezda 1/72 Su-30 Kangnam 1/72 Su-35 Conversion Zvezda 1/72 Su-37 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) Hasegawa 1/72 F-15SG Revell 1/72 F-16A for the Viper2.0 Groupbuild as well as the Tigermeet GB is done! Italeri 1/48 F-18F with TwoBobs decals Fujimi 1/72 A-7 Corsair Academy 1/72 F-8 Crusader Hasegawa 1/72 EA-6B Prowler Emhar 1/72 F-3 Demon 1/48 Monogram OS2U kingfisher + 1/48 Academy F4U Corsair Edited January 3, 2008 by Tomcat RIO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) and of course, to end it off. my every airforce 1/72 F-18 GB. a Hive of Hornets! Tamiya Malaysian airforce with Scalenut decals, and Canadian example with italeri decals. a pair of Kitech with italeri decals dor the spanish example and own spares for the Finnish. a restoring of my 10 year old fujimi VFA-81 sunliners kit the new fujimi VFA-113 kit which i bought and finished to commemorate the one i build 10 years ago (above) revell's hornet in australian markings, from the italeri decals a kangnam version for Kuwait, which is still waiting for the squadron decals hasegawa old mould, in swiss markings from tamiya's decals and of course, Chippy Ho!, revell's decals on the new mould hasegawa kit. Edited January 3, 2008 by Tomcat RIO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I'm speechless... wishing my builds were 1/100th of yours... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) There we go. 100 for 2007. it was an improvement over 2006, where i managed to churn out 60 kits whilst off duty. Looking at my current stash, i have about 40 odd kits left, most of them 1/48 world war 2 props, miscellanous 1/72 jet planes, and lots of superhornets and more tomcats that haven't been finished. And of course, underneath all that pile are the ones that i probably not going to build for some time, like the airfix 1/24 hurricane, bf109 and bandai Zero, as well as the huge 1/72 tu-95. if i have the time from my busy school schedule i would be most happy to start taking more close-up photos of each aircraft and create/ write gallery articles for the daily updates here on ARC. let's just say that Mr Steve will have enough articles a day for the daily updates for a year. hoora! Edited January 3, 2008 by Tomcat RIO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jamie Cheslo Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Words fail me. :blink: You have to be the most prolific model builder I have ever come across. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 You're putting out models on industrial scale! Wow! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Mikester Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I'm impressed, simply amazing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clumber Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 wait wait wait... so you have built more kits in the last year than you have unbuilt in your stash? holy crud... there has got to be a rip in the space/time continuum near you! Amazing. I could throw out excuses like moving and busy with dog stuff... but it still comes down to my finishing maybe 5 kits in aught-7. Hats off to you, sir! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
model_madness Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 OK you ARE without a doubt the mosr prolific builder I have ver heard, seen and probably will EVER see. And good quality sh*t too! Words fail me. How the %%%% do you do it man? My stash of 100 will take me 30 yrs at my rate! You're one very scary person dude. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VF-x Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 You're one very scary person dude. I beginning to think Tomcat RIO is actually more than one person. Now I know what Santa's elves do when they're not making toys! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stealthy1 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Anyone who can churn out as good looking a 'Cat from the Kitech kit is awesome. Given the level of detail in that kit I mean.... Seriously though...the amount of thinner you breathed in whilst doing those can't be THAT good. I've had a few highs meself. And a good irritation on my hands when I spilled Micro Sol on them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
revellmania Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Wow, amazing! Btw, can you recall your experience on the Kitech Ju-88? Was it a painful build? Thinking of getting the kit... Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 That's unbelievable. :lol: A hundred models! Completed! I managed to start two and half-finish one, so that's about 1.75 completed builds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Hi folks thanks for the good words. Well i might like to answer the question of how i build them so fast. Every month i do a stock check of my stash, and list out kits that have essentially similiar colour schemes, or a theme running through them, such as era, air force. Then on paper, i plan out and group these together, and at the same time make mental notes of colour similarities and possible modifications. Once done i start off these mini groupbuilds, usually with around 3-6 aircraft that have a core theme, such a my every airforce Tornado and Legacy Hornet GBs. Since they are all in the same scale, it also allows interchanging of kit weapons, parts, even decals and stencils at later stages. Hence parts damaged are easily replaced with spares from other kits. also, building in small groups makes economical sense. much like how buying en bulk saves some money over the long run. My flankers was cored around this concept, primarily because of their bare metal exhaust areas. Spraying them together saves precious ALclad and Model Master metallics that are lost if i had poured them around by doing each kit induividually. an example of colour theme would be my miscellanous 1/72 US navy groupbuild All of them are in the Hi-Vis Gull grey and white of the 60s and 70s. Hence, rather than tear my hair out with white paints one by one, i did them all together. and while 1 white was drying, i was masking the grey for another. no waiting. perhaps the best case of mass production technique would be my Tomcat GB. All of them need the patchy dirty weather look that demands random spots of grey. Thus, in order to be random enough, i did up 20 of the 1/72s, and sent in the randomness. Everything was in huge quantitites. ejetion seats, canopies.. and of course, there was a weapons week, where i did nothing but weapons. i don't have any shots of the world war 2 props, but they were in principal done the same way, because they all shared the same interior green with minor shading differences. I think it is more important though, not to sacrifice quality for quantity. I sort of had a compromise here and there, and some mistakes you can't see, but i know it's there. Here's for a slower 2008, with higher quality! - Kevin "Tomcat RIO" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ron Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 When do you find time to eat? 2 completed per week, every week wow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat RIO Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Wow, amazing! Btw, can you recall your experience on the Kitech Ju-88? Was it a painful build? Thinking of getting the kit... Ben my guess is that the kitech is a reissue of the old hobbycraft version. the kit is extremely simple, the canopies are very thick, cockpit is severely lacking. ad the only major fault is the seam line that runs along the fuselage spine after the 2 halfs come together. nothing that putty and elbow grease can't solve though, but certainly it cannot compare to Dragon's better offering. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karl Sander Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Truly impressive! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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