To-do list (67 model kits)

Updated 6 December 2022

My to-do list on My Forgotten Hobby II

My Forgotten Hobby II

Updated 21 August, 2019

I think it’s a great idea to have a list of what I have in my stash, especially when Amazon always puts on adds whenever I open my computer and go on the Internet.

This way hopefully I can avoid going on another spending spree, and I plan ahead on my next builds by setting up some priorities…

Helicopters (3)

Monogram (3)

AH-1S (almost completed many years ago)

Bell Huey Hog (bought many years ago)

AH-64 Apache (started many years ago)

Planes (55)

Airfix (5)

Boulton-Paul Defiant (bought in 2018)

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

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

Supermarine Spitfire Mk V / Messerschmidt Me109E (bought in 2018)

AMT (1)

A-20 (bought many years ago)

Fujimi (1)

Aichi Type 99 Val (bought many years ago)

Tamiya (9)

Zero A6M2 (bought many years…

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Zero Feet And Throttle Wide Open

Garvey immediately pushed his unarmed Spitfire over into a tight spiralling dive in a desperate evasive manoeuvre but at least one of the Fw190s was able to pursue him downwards. At the bottom of the turn, at zero feet and throttle wide open Garvey pulled his Spitfire’s nose up to avoid some trees…

Zero Feet And Throttle Wide Open

US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes — and kept in a secret for 50 years | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/asia/korean-war-fighter-pilot-soviet-shootdown-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes — and kept in a secret for 50 years | CNN

Vought F4U-1a Corsair

I imagine this type needs little introduction. Let’s take a look at a Corsair flown by the type’s most famous pilot. The first significant claim of Vought’s F4U fighter was as the first US fighter to top 400 mph in level flight. But the pace of airframe and engine development at the time was such […]

Vought F4U-1a Corsair

And that was 2022

Most interesting 2022 review

Wow. It seems as though I just posted the 2021 send-off and I’m already doing another one. This has been a very fast year. That usually means I have been busy and in the case of 2022, yes, things were busy. Let’s get the obvious out of the way. By every account, this year was […]

And that was 2022

Intermission – Rare-Plane Detective

If you are on Facebook, you might find Rare-Plane Detective. If you are not on Facebook, you might find Rare-Plane Detective elsewhere like a modeler’s blog. Rare-Plane Detective is based in California and this is where I have ordered Pro Modeler Curtiss Helldiver SB2C, my new vintage model airplane kit. These pictures were taken on […]

Intermission – Rare-Plane Detective

On the Bench: 1/48 ProModeler Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver

Just bought this one to celebrate My Forgotten Hobby I had created back on December 6, 2013.

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The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

Throughout much of its development and early deployment, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was plagued with problems, delays and disappointments. It was disliked by aircrews and carrier skippers and dismissed by foreign governments, who cancelled their orders in droves. By the SB2C-4, the teething problems were largely ironed out, and the massive dive-bomber found its adherents. But you know what they say about first impressions.

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Tamiya’s P-38F – T minus 36: One step at a time?

I’m still active…

Day 268… Saturday November 19, 2022 One step at a time? Really? I have to get over it that new model airplane kits have lots and lots of parts. This is one of Friday’s morning shots… As you can see I have made significant progress. Step 34 has been completed yesterday. I wasn’t under any […]

Tamiya’s P-38F – T minus 36: One step at a time?

Intermission – Vintage model kits

A gift from a friend whose uncle was a Mosquito pilot. Five years ago he had given me this one. To be continued…

Intermission – Vintage model kits

The Lagoon’s First Decade!

One of the best!

I can hardly believe it, but it has been 10 big years since the I first posted here on the Sprue Lagoon. It was on Remembrance Day, 2012, that I came home from the annual ceremony at the downtown cenotaph and posted my first article, the Matchbox Mirage III B-2 (RV), which was followed the […]

The Lagoon’s First Decade!

Still alive and well… Unfinished business – Part 3: ICM Bf 109F-4

Day 224 6 October 2022 On March 30, 2022 as the world was still watching in dismay what was happening in Ukraine, I was just starting a new project even if I had other unfinished business waiting. It was Day 36 of a special military operation, but my day count was off by 6 days […]

Unfinished business – Part 3: ICM Bf 109F-4