any 1/72 model builders on here?

[Wayne Argabright 1,581]

Am currently building a Mig-23 and a Mig -27 finishing up the painting. It was warm enough last week that i was able to use the airbrush. however i messed up and painted the canopies the wrong colors. The Mig-27 is painted in standard Russian 3 color green/brown/tan camo. while i opted for a more modern air superiority grey camo scheme for the Mig-23. problem is i got the canopies mixed up and i just cant swap them as they are from different kit manufacturers. Ack i HATE painting canopies particularly ones that have a bunch of fine details that i have to mask off!! 

[Kyrios Mirage 588]

All my Zoids are 1/72, but I usually do aircraft in 1/48 (inherited that habit from my dad). Canopies are still a pain at that scale, though it's the cockpits I really don't look forward to.

[Gosric 696]

Canpies are a complete pain. I just finished the Moebius Colonial Viper and the canopy was seriously rough

[Gadge 4,294]

Not so much model buiding, a few tanks and jeeps etc but i have *hundreds* of 1.72/20mm scale lead soldiers for wargaming with.

 

I've a full company of wwii british airborne (on a 1 man is 1 man scale) with support weapons, jeeps, tetrarch light tanks, field guns and a single horsa glider.

 

I've also got a platoon of heer and a platoon of luftwaffe field division with supporting vehicles and flak (most of it plastic or metal kits)

 

I stopped making plastic and metal kit vehicles so much when 'dragon' made amazing pre paint 1/72 scale vehicles.

[Wayne Argabright 1,581]

I have a resin colonial viper in 1/72 that's in my Q. also looking forward to the new Bandie 1/72 kits of the X-wing/tie advanced. hope they make a Y wing..    http://www.hobbylink.tv/the-star-wars-invasion-of-bandai-commences

[SniperSnake28 130]

I have so many 1/72 builds, I can't count all of them. They are all aircraft. I just got a B-57 and a PBY from 1969 at a flea market. I also have a bunch of 1/48 aircraft and 1/35 tanks.

[Gosric 696]

Im really hoping for a Bandai Y Wing. That would rock. And a Blockade runner kit

[Gosric 696]

Just because im pleased with it.First model i have built since getting glasses

 

[Kyrios Mirage 588]

Very nice! I especially like the internal detailing around the engines.

[Wayne Argabright 1,581]

yeah glasses help..  

[Gosric 696]

Yes they do. The Moebius viper is so much better than the older toolings. Much crisper details and very accurate. I am going to get a Raider (original series) eventually but my wife told me i have to finish my Yamato ships and Mobile suits first *L*

[Kyrios Mirage 588]

I feel your pain. I've got a huge line to workthrough, too. But, but, they look so shiny and cooollll I can't help it...

 

1/350 HMS Warspite

1/700 HIJMS Nagato, Mutsu, Yamato, Takao, I-400, HMS Malaya

1/144 Jegan, Kampfer, Delta Plus, Qubeley Papillion, kitbash Gundam

1/72 Lanstag

Plus my HMS Hood and USS Yorktown are in need of repairs.

[Wayne Argabright 1,581]

I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

[Khyros 4,236]

I just finished up my FineMolds 1:72 Y wing.  I started it about 2 years ago as the first model I've done as an adult, and then at the 98% completion mark, I got distracted repainting my 1:270 X wing miniatures.  I finally went back and finished it up on Sunday, and now I've got the bug again to do my FineMolds X wing, and do it even better because I'm a much better painter now... Not to mention if I can fit electronics into a 1:270 Falcon, I shouldn't have a problem doing the same for an 1:72 X wing.  

[Gosric 696]

I hadn't built a model or painted a mini in a long time because of vision issues so i went a bit over board when i got that fixed. Ill catch up eventually. My Hasegawa first and second Arcadias are probably top of the list since they are both half completed.

[Kyrios Mirage 588]

I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

Something like this stack?

Or: "Our paint brushes can't cover surfaces of that magnitude!"

[Wayne Argabright 1,581]

 

I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

Something like this stack?

Or: "Our paint brushes can't cover surfaces of that magnitude!"

 

that looks like the back room at my Local game store..lol

[meekor 113]

Lol looks like my living room ; have to move into my garage now...Got to have some building and painting space...